Job overview
The department has fully established 11 Consultants, providing shop floor cover for 15 hours per day. There is extensive support for examinations including all the Royal Colleges and GPs and a number of our doctors have achieved membership and fellowship of Royal College of Emergency Medicine within the last 2 years. WWL teaching hospital is amongst the best performing Trusts in the region.
We are looking to appoint 8 FY2/ST1 Trust Grade Doctors to join us from August 2025 until August 2026, the salary will be paid at FY2 (MT02) or ST1 (MT03) grade depending on experience, plus a work schedule
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the job
The primary responsibilities of the post holder include:
- Delivering high quality, safe, and effective clinical care
- Communicating effectively and compassionately with patients
- Supporting as junior members of the multidisciplinary clinical team
- Collaborating with all members of the Emergency Department team and staff from other departments.
- Working to ensure audits in key clinical areas are acted upon to improve clinical quality
The role will require you to work across all areas in the Trust which includes those that are designated as positive, asymptomatic and negative COVID wards.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Duties and Responsibilities
The initial management and primary care of patients presenting in the Department, however referred. It is expected that such work will be carried out to the highest clinical standards at all times and in accordance with accepted good medical practice and the various clinical policies of the Service.
- Arranging for the follow-up of patients they treat in the Department - including the follow-up of any investigations performed and the taking of appropriate action in accordance with the results of these
- Transmission of relevant clinical information on patients to other medical, technical and nursing staff either within the Department, within or without the hospital or at any other hospital, regarding patients under their care or those referred to other places for further treatment or follow-up.
- Initial management of fractures including reduction and immobilisation.
- Undertaking procedures as appropriate for the Emergency Department.
- Supervision of nursing staff and junior doctors in matters relating to the treatment of patients.
- Maintenance of adequate and proper records on patients for both clinical and audit purposes (including data input into the computer system) and for the furnishing of letters, reports and other documentation as required for medical, legal and statutory purposes.
- Instruction of nursing staff and, from time to time, medical students and ambulance personnel under training within the Department
- Coding diagnostics and treatment of patients on the information system