Consultant in Emergency Medicine

NHS; Weston-super-Mare; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare provider as a Consultant in Emergency Medicine in Weston-super-Mare. This role offers a balanced workload with no nights, opportunities for professional development, and a commitment to expanding the consultant team to enhance emergency care in the region.

Benefits

Paid specialist interest development time

State-of-the-art recently refurbished facility

On-site car parking

Cross-site working negotiable

Qualifications

• Must be on the GMC's Specialist Register for Emergency Medicine.
• Experience in Acute and Emergency care.
• Demonstrable teaching ability and research experience.

Responsibilities

• Deliver the highest quality of Emergency Care to patients.
• Expand the Emergency Service to the people of North Somerset.
• Develop the department in all aspects of emergency clinical service, training and research.

Skills

Clinical skills

Team leadership

Communication

Clinical audit

Research experience

Teaching ability

Education

Fully registered with GMC

Certification of completion of specialist training / CESR

Fellowship of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine

ATLS/ETC, APLS/EPLS certifications

Job description

Go back University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW)

Consultant in Emergency Medicine

The closing date is 30 June 2025

Love Emergency Medicine? Love Weston-super-Mare.

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston Foundation Trust (UHBW) are now looking to grow our talented emergency team to drive an ambitious future vision of emergency care in the Bristol and Weston area. You really couldn't pick a better time to make your move to our organisation.

What's in it for you?

Well. Apart from getting work within a talented team in a beautiful part of the country:

• No night at the Weston site
• Work in a state-of-the-art recently refurbished facility
• Cross-site working negotiable
• Paid specialist interest development time for specialities including ultrasound, leadership, education, simulation, paediatrics and trauma
• On-site car parking

The post is advertised as a 10 PA job plan with options to increase. Candidates wishing to be considered for a position with less than full-time working are encouraged.

Weston-Super-Mare and the surrounding county, has a beautiful coastline and hills and you will find yourself visiting the Mendip Hills, the Quantocks and Cheddar Gorge sooner or later. The large, diverse cities of Bristol and Bath are only a short journey by car or train and our convenient location just off Junction 21 of the M5 mean the rest of Somerset, Devon and the surfing beaches of Cornwall are virtually on the doorstep.

Main duties of the job

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust seeks applicants for the expansion of the Consultant team in Emergency Medicine to commence as soon as possible. This reflects a firm commitment within UHBW to expand the consultant workforce in Weston ED. The posts provide eligible individuals an ideal opportunity for continued professional development within the recently expanded Department of Emergency Medicine (ED), which forms the Trust's emergency "front door".

These are 10PA posts providing 8.5 DCC and 1.5 SPA/admin each. The posts reflect a firm commitment within UHBW to continue the expansion and development of the consultant team in the Department of Emergency Medicine (ED) to enable shop floor consultant clinical presence to meet Royal College of Emergency Medicine guidelines and the expectations of clinical governance and to ensure the continued development of excellence in Emergency Care. The Trust is committed to the development of the Department as the Trust's emergency "front door" and the aspiration is for further consultant expansion to allow sustainable consultant working for the future.

Applicants should have a CCT or equivalent in Emergency Medicine, or be within six months of achieving this at the date of interview, or be listed on the GMC's specialist register.

About us

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as 'Good' overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward- thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone's throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we're meeting our pledge.

Job responsibilities

The successful candidate will join a team of senior medical and nursing staff committed to expanding the Emergency Service to the people of North Somerset. The common aim will be to deliver the highest quality of Emergency Care to patients whilst developing the department in all aspects of emergency clinical service, training and research. Close teamwork between senior medical, nursing and management staff is an essential requirement of this appointment.

Please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy

If you require further information as well as Dominic Pitt, you can also contact Andriani Karr ([e-mail])

Person Specification

Qualifications & Training

• Fully registered with GMC. Certification of completion of specialist training / CESR OR
• be within 6 months of gaining it by the interview date (or equivalent.)
• Fellowship of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (or equivalent)
• Must be on the GMC's Specialist Register for Emergency Medicine to take up Consultant appointment.
• ATLS/ETC, APLS/EPLS. ALS provider
• Instructor in one or more life support courses (ALS/ATLS/PALS/APLS or equivalent).
• Additional sub-speciality training qualifications, particularly in : PEM

Professional Practice/ Clinical Skills

• Evidence of first-rate professional practice.
• Able to demonstrate clinical skills in managing the full range of patient presentations as defined in the Royal College Emergency medicine Curriculum
• Evidence of extended clinical skills in areas pertinent to acute and emergency care including but not exclusive to: Intensive Care medicine, Pre hospital medicine, point of care ultrasound, advanced airway management

Clinical Governance

• Awareness of the requirements of clinical governance, with particular reference to the specialty.
• Completion of formal courses in aspects of clinical governance.
• Formal experience in the development of patient safety systems as pertaining to Emergency Medicine.

Further training, eg, Management, Audit

• Experience of clinical audit and education
• Evidence of completion of audit project including implementation of recommendations
• Evidence of delivering Quality Improvement Projects
• Evidence to provide clinical leadership for audit programmes
• Completion of formal courses in clinical audit & education
• Participation in or delivery of management training courses

Research/Teaching/Publications

• Demonstrable teaching ability and research experience.
• Commitment to participate in research throughout the Emergency Medicine Service.
• Willingness to undertake teaching of clinical staff at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.
• Completion of Education Training course/further qualifications
• Published research and audit.
• History of designing and leading regional or national studies.
• Peer reviewed publications

Interpersonal, communication and team working skills

• Evidence of management experience
• Evidence of good team working with peers and other senior colleagues.
• Flexible attitude and good communication skills.
• Ability to integrate into and share leadership of a multidisciplinary team
• Commitment to the provision of emergency services throughout the Bristol community, and to continuing professional development.
• Recognised leadership skills and qualifications
• Has demonstrated ability to well work under pressure and in difficult circumstances
• To be able to demonstrate team leadership skills and work on own initiative.
• Formal training in Clinical Leadership

Any other general requirements

• Prepared to work to job specification
• Must be able to meet on-call requirements

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW)