Consultant in Emergency Medicine (PEM)

Job overview

Are you looking for a Consultant role where your voice drives real change?

At Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, we are building a forward-thinking Emergency Department where Consultants play a central role in shaping patient flow, service design, and clinical excellence within a modern, integrated care model at St Peter’s Hospital.

As a Consultant in Emergency Medicine, you will take on a key leadership role on the shop floor, delivering high-quality, patient-centred care while driving improvements in flow, efficiency, and safety. You’ll join a supportive and expanding Consultant body, contributing to service redesign, mentoring junior colleagues, and working collaboratively across specialties to enhance patient pathways. This is a department that actively encourages innovation, supports specialist interests, and invests in the development of its people.

This is more than a clinical role—it’s an opportunity to influence strategy, lead meaningful change, and be part of a service with real momentum. With flexible job planning, a strong focus on work-life balance, and a collaborative culture, this post offers the platform to build a fulfilling and impactful career in Emergency Medicine.

INTERVIEWS FOR THIS POST WILL BE IN PERSON ON 10/07/2026

Main duties of the job

As a Consultant in Emergency Medicine at Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, you will deliver care at the highest professional standard, providing expert assessment, diagnosis, investigation, treatment, and management of patients presenting to the Emergency Department. You will take clinical responsibility for patients under your care, ensuring safe and effective decision-making, appropriate escalation, and high-quality handover.

You will provide senior clinical leadership across all areas of the department, supporting patient flow through early assessment, rapid decision-making, and review of potential admissions to ensure timely investigations and disposition. You will work collaboratively with colleagues across specialties, offering prompt clinical opinion where required, and contributing to the development of efficient, patient-centred pathways. A key part of the role will involve working closely with multidisciplinary teams to maintain high standards of care, improve patient experience, and support delivery of departmental and Trust objectives.

You will contribute actively to education, training, and supervision of junior medical staff and the wider multidisciplinary workforce, including undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. You will be expected to participate in audit, clinical governance, and quality improvement activities, ensuring continuous service development and adherence to professional and regulatory standards.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Deliver Clinical, Educational, Managerial Services of the highest professional standard at Consultant Level to the Department
• Work with existing consultants and the multi-disciplinary team to provide a high quality well-led service for patients of Ashford & St Peter’s, including the diagnosis, investigations, treatment and management of patients, in accordance with Trust policies and practices.
• Deliver Direct Clinical Care to patients, through all parts of the Department assisting clinical decision-making and sharing equally in the workload.
• The Consultant team will provide comprehensive senior clinical cover to the Department.
• Prioritising timely assessment of patients
• Consultant cover time required, Consultants will be expected to review all potential admissions and develop rapid assessment triage strategies to ensure early investigations and disposition of patients is achieved
• Have a continuing responsibility for the care of patients in his/her charge, ensuring safe handover as appropriate.
• Engage with medical, nursing, management and all relevant co-workers in the delivery of department objectives: to provide clinical leadership, improve the patient experience; ensure the highest quality clinical care and to contribute to the overall performance of the department.
• Actively participate in and support other staff with education, research, audit and clinical governance activities involving a multi-disciplinary workforce across the department
• Participate in the professional training of the staff in the department, both medical and non-medical, and contribute as required to teaching sessions for other hospital staff as well as undergraduate and postgraduate staff, including supervision of junior medical staff. Teaching and training will require verification of teaching certification
• Support recruitment, appraisal, development and mentoring activities to a multi-disciplinary, multi-professional team.
• Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of clinical pathways and service delivery.
• Undertake any other duties appropriate for a consultant.
• Engage in research, service development, and leadership activities as part of supporting professional activities (SPA)
• Demonstrate strong communication, leadership, and the ability to manage competing demands in a high-pressure environment
• Uphold Trust values, delivering compassionate, inclusive, and high-quality care to all patients