Consultant in Emergency Medicine

Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board; Wales; Sur place; GBP 60 000 - 80 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

BCUHB's Emergency Department in Wales is a modern hub that handles major trauma and a full case-mix across specialties. The post supports ED leadership, coordinating capacity and risk management to maintain safe, high-quality care.

As part of the ED leadership team, you will lead medical handovers, partner with senior clinicians, and use the Symphony system to run the department proactively, including streaming to MIUs, SDEC, and acute services as needed.

Qualifications

• Leads and participates in emergency department handovers and huddles.
• Manages ED risk and capacity escalation in collaboration with NIC and management.
• Acts as a point of clinical contact for senior clinicians and management within ED.
• Coordinates workforce resources to cover short-notice staffing gaps and safe service provision.
• Uses the Symphony system to proactively run the ED.
• Monitors patient safety risks, reviews unwell patients, and sees patients as needed.
• Supports streaming of patients to MIUs, SDEC or other specialties where appropriate.
• Anticipates and intervenes with unexpected issues such as health and safety risks.

Responsabilités

• Leading medical handovers and huddles
• Support NIC to manage ED risk escalating capacity and safety concerns
• Be a point of clinical contact for Senior Clinicians and Management
• Coordinate workforce resources within ED including responding to short-notice staffing gaps
• Use Symphony to proactively run the ED
• Focus on patient safety risks, reviewing unwell patients, and seeing patients as needed
• Support the streaming of patients to MIUs, SDEC or Specialities
• Anticipate and intervene with unexpected issues such as health and safety risks

Connaissances

Symphony ED system

Workforce coordination

Patient safety

Clinical handovers

Outils

Symphony

Description du poste

The Emergency Department (ED) was purpose built in 2014 and offers state of-the-art facilities. This was part of a new development at YGC called the Emergency Quadrant (EQ) which brings all Emergency and Acute Services together. The EQ houses the ED, Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC), a 24 bed Acute Medical Unit, Surgical Assessment Unit, Radiology services. The ED sees a full case mix of undifferentiated emergencies encompassing all specialties including Major Trauma, Stroke, Cardiac, Vascular, ENT, Ophthalmology, Max Fax and Paediatrics. The Department has also been undergoing a process of implementation of modern models of Emergency Care including streaming, ambulatory majors, and rapid assessment.,

• Leading medical handovers and huddles
• Support the Nurse in Charge (NIC) to manage Emergency Department (ED) risk escalating ED capacity and safety concerns
• Being a point of clinical contact in ED for Senior Clinicians and Management
• Support the coordination of workforce resources within ED, including responding to short-notice staffing gaps and escalating workforce concerns to maintain safe service provision
• Using Symphony to proactively run the ED
• Focusing on patient safety risks, reviewing unwell patients, and seeing patients as needed
• Supporting the streaming of patients to Minor Injury Units (MIUs), Specialities or Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) where appropriate
• Anticipating and intervening with unexpected issues, e.g., health and safety risks

Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) is Wales's largest health organisation, with a budget of over £2.4 billion and a workforce of over 20,000 staff. BCUHB provides a full range of primary, community, mental health, acute and specialist hospital services for the population of North Wales, across 3 acute hospitals and a network of communityhospitals, healthcentres, clinics, and mental health units. It alsoco-ordinates or provides the work of GP practices and NHS services provided by dentists, opticians, and pharmacists across the region. The Health Board is an integrated health system that strives for excellent, compassionate care delivered in partnership with the public sector and other statutory and third sector organisations.