Clinical Fellow in Emergency Medicine

Job overview

Applicants MUST have at least 4 months’ employed experience within the NHS  in Emergency Medicine Full GMC registration with a license to practice is required.

We are pleased to offer an exciting opportunity to join our team here at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Major Trauma Centre Emergency Department based at Aintree.  Applications are invited from highly motivated and enthusiastic individuals for exciting new positions in our department, subject to satisfactory review and appraisal.

Our Trust provides a comprehensive range of medical and surgical services to patients in the North West of England. It is one of the UK’s 22 Major Trauma Centres and offers tertiary referral services for variety of onsite surgical specialties including Orthopaedics, Neurosurgery, MFU and ENT Surgery. The Emergency Department has a long tradition of delivering excellent clinical outcomes, is committed to training and offers supervised teaching and personal career development for those trainees who wish to develop a career in Emergency Medicine. In addition the department has strong links to Liverpool University.

The department has an active academic team which has coordinated a number of national and international multi-centre clinical trials and the successful applicant will be encouraged to take part in research, service improvement and audit activity.

Main duties of the job

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust based at Aintree provides an Emergency Service to the Northern section of Liverpool and that service is centred at University Hospital Aintree. Our declared objective is to provide a comprehensive timely emergency service to care for all patients coming to the hospital with a recent injury or acute illness and that provision includes resuscitation, investigation, diagnosis, treatment and referral as appropriate to each patient’s needs.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Patients coming into the department are;

• Ø  Referred by their GP to the on-call team of the appropriate speciality and are seen by them in the Emergency Department if the medical assessment unit/surgical assessment units are full, or if these patients are unstable and require resuscitation. Ø  Referred by their GP for Emergency Department attention. Ø  Self-referrals (“999” attendances or walk-ins). Ø  Booked appointments through NHS 111.

We see around 100,000 new attenders a year.