Simulation Senior Clinical Fellow / Specialty Doctor in Emergency Medicine

Job overview

We are welcoming enthusiastic doctors with middle grade (ST4+ level) experience in Emergency Medicine, preferably with experience of working in the North West of England, to apply for this post. Joining our dynamic Emergency Department family will be the perfect opportunity to develop your career in a department with a proud educational culture and striving to deliver safe, quality patient care. We also offer opportunities to develop interests in teaching, research, simulation, trauma care, quality improvement, and clinical governance.

Please do not apply for this post unless you possess all the essential criteria. The ideal candidate should be making good progress towards completing all 3 MRCEM examination components and already be working at ST4+ level (i.e. tier 4) in Emergency Medicine, with UK or Ireland NHS experience at tier 4 level (or at least 3-6 months tier 3 experience). If you are not sure or think you have what it takes despite not fully meeting the essential criteria, please email your CV to  [email protected] prior to applying for the post.

The successful candidate will be joining our department in an exciting part of its history, after moving into our new purpose-built Emergency Receiving Area (ERA), which is a 12-bedded resuscitation area within the Greater Manchester Major Trauma Hospital. This facility was specifically designed for the reception and resuscitation of major trauma patients from across Greater Manchester, and includes a helipad and five theatres, one of which is a hybrid RAPTOR (resuscitation, angiography, percutaneous techniques and operative repair) theatre.

We receive more than 100,000 type 1 patients per annum, of whom approximately 1,200 are major trauma calls for those triggering prehospital major trauma activation in the Greater Manchester and surrounding areas. A high proportion of these major trauma patients have elevated Injury Severity Score, requiring critical care admission.

Salford Royal Hospital of the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust is a teaching hospital for the University of Manchester Medical School, with our ED offering plenty of educational opportunities for all staff. You can also develop your own educational portfolio by actively taking part in our departmental teaching sessions, simulation teaching, journal club, morbidity and mortality meetings, quality improvement & audit meetings, to name a few.

We are also proud to take part in many national research projects, with ample opportunity to develop research interests. Some of our specialist tertiary services include acute stroke, neurosurgery, neurology, renal and dermatology.      Our department also have links with the North West Air Ambulance, with the Department and trust running regular teaching in trauma management. In addition, ATLS (Advanced Trauma Life Support) courses are run locally by Salford Royal teams, and European Trauma Course (ETC) is also run on-site.

Main duties of the job

You will work at a level equivalent to ST4+ and share the rota with our current Specialty Registrars and locally employed doctors in Emergency Medicine. Initially you will be supernumerary (depending on experience), after which you will join the self-rostering full shift pattern rota.

You will join our team as a Simulation Fellow with 70% clinical time, spent on the upper grade rota, and 30% non-clinical time, with educational development time mainly focussed on the role of supporting the ED Simulation Education Team. This aspect of the job will see you supported to develop as a simulation educator by a supervisor experienced in delivering high quality simulation teaching, with a core focus on learning how to design simulation teaching and enhance your debrief skills. You will take joint responsibility for delivering and expanding the in-situ simulation education programmes in Emergency Medicine, Paediatric Emergency Medicine and Major Trauma at Salford Royal Hospital. There is also the opportunity to contribute to local and regional Emergency Medicine simulation courses. The successful applicant will also be expected to design effective methods to share learning from simulation teaching with the wider ED team and on social media platforms.

This post would be well suited to either locally employed doctors, or equally those considering out of programme experience.

The successful candidate will join our dynamic multidisciplinary team of medical staff, trainees, nursing, and allied health professionals, with responsibilities for patient care commensurate with their level of experience and training.    We support locally employed doctors in obtaining the training and secondments required to successfully complete all aspects of the Portfolio Pathway (previously known as CESR programme), supported by our CESR lead and three RCEM CESR assessors. We are in the process of setting up a more formal CESR programme in our department for fellows who wish to pursue this route.

At the core of our reputation is an emphasis on education, with sustainability and flexible working. We recognise that a good work-life balance is of paramount importance in developing a rewarding career.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: https://careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk/