Consultant in Emergency Medicine

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated consultant in Emergency Medicine with a passion for excellent patient care, to join a friendly, dynamic, forward thinking ED at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, a Major Trauma Centre based in the East Midlands.

We are looking for a team player who will contribute to our aspiration to become an elite ED, delivering ‘excellent care without exception’.

We are seeking candidates with very good clinical, communication and leadership skills whose primary focus is quality patient care.  You must be committed to supporting education, research and prevention / health improvement which are fundamental to our plans.  You will have a senior mentor for the first year and will be supported with time to develop special interests, aligned to departmental strategy.

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Main duties of the job

Day to day, you will contribute to the consultant clinical rota. You will be expected to demonstrate leadership across the multi-professional team and support education and training of the many learners in the department, as well as contributing to quality improvement and audit.  All consultants will be GCP certified and actively support recruitment to research studies. .

Non-shop floor duties are integral to the successful running of a large department. There are numerous opportunities to be part of the various groups comprising the leadership and governance structure of ED and contribute to governance, education, research and continuous improvement.

We will encourage you and give you time to develop any specialist interests.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Appointees will join a welcoming, friendly and forward thinking workforce of 33 consultants, 40 Tier 4 middle grades (HST trainees, CESR doctors and SAS doctors), 670Junior doctors of varying  grades, 48 Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACPs), 21 Emergency Nurse Practitioners (ENPs) /Urgent Care Practitioners, 200 nurses, 3 pharmacists, 2 Physician Associates and 115 Clinical Support Workers and Emergency Department Assistants.

The Emergency Department includes a 9-bayed Resuscitation Area and a Majors Area with 30 monitored bays. We also have an Injury Team, an Ambulatory Majors area, and a co-located UTC and a 7-day SDEC managed and operated by a SDEC team separate to ED.

NUH is the Major Trauma Centre for the biggest Trauma Network in the UK.  NUH Emergency Department is the front door for the East Midlands Major Trauma Centre, accepting patients from a large area and last year saw over 1800 major trauma patients plus less severely injured patients. It is a single unit and, as such, one of the largest Trauma Centres in the UK. You will be expected to lead the trauma team within the resuscitation room and take part in major trauma audits and training opportunities. NUH has all the relevant specialties and critical care capacity to maintain its Major Trauma Centre standing

The Department has undergone major transformation of its leadership and governance framework to develop a distributed leadership model and structures and processes, fit for purpose for a modern ED. We work closely with specialties in Specialty Interface Collaboratives (SICs), facilitating processes, governance and education/research across  patient pathways.

You will join an annualised self-rostering system, designed to provide flexibility and support work-life balance.  We are currently reviewing rotas across the multi-professional workforce to ensure non clinical commitments; including quality improvement and education are proactively planned.

Upon commencement of the substantive post, you will start on an 8 DCC, 2 SpA split, We offer 2 core SPA for the first 12 months of post to allow new consultants to settle into the role. After 12 months, core SPA will reduce to 1.5 sessions and there is the possibility to undertake additional SPA according to the needs of the department and your specialist interests.

The successful candidate will be responsible for adult emergency patients attending NUH ED under their care. The shop-floor roster currently encompasses these distinct roles:

Consultant in charge of the entire department –based mainly in ED

Majors Unit

Resus Room consultant

Ambulatory Majors consultant

Supervision consultant

There are protected daily consultant supervision sessions to support education of emergency medicine trainees and other learners in the clinical arena.

All consultants are expected to take an active role in clinical governance activities including (but not restricted to) clinical audit, incident reporting, review of complaints, risk management, CPD, Quality Improvement and Evidence-Based Practice. The ED has Consultant Clinical Governance and Quality Improvement leads who work closely with the Clinical and Audit leads. The Area Teams and Specialty Interface Collaboratives oversee governance relevant to their areas of responsibility and liaise with the Governance lead.  As well as audits responsive to local need and clinical incidents, RCEM audits are also undertaken, allowing national benchmarking.

Applicants wishing to work part time will be considered and modification of the job plan discussed with the ED Management Team.

Please refer to the job description and person specification attached to the advert for the full details of the vacancy.