Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 105,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

The NHS is seeking a Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine to provide high-quality emergency care at St Mary's Hospital. This role involves clinical leadership, teaching opportunities, and participation in research within a dedicated paediatric emergency department, ensuring the safety and quality of care for children and young people.

Benefits

Career development

Flexible working

Staff recognition scheme

Cycle to Work scheme

Membership options for onsite leisure facilities

Qualifications

• Experience in PEM/acute paediatrics in the UK.
• Completion of training in PEM or Acute Paediatrics.
• Able to demonstrate clinical skills in line with RCPCH or RCEM PEM curriculum.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality care to patients presenting as an emergency.
• Lead paediatric major trauma teams and support resident doctors.
• Contribute to teaching and training for medical and nursing staff.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Teaching

Quality Improvement

Education

On GMC specialist register Paediatrics (PEM) or Emergency Medicine (PEM)

MRCPCH or FCEM

Higher degree or research degree

Job description

Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine

We are recruiting a substantive Consultant (10 PAs) to work in our Paediatric Emergency Department at St Mary's Hospital.

We are a dedicated paediatric ED with approximately 28,000 attendances a year of children and young people up to 16 years of age. We are the Major Trauma Centre for North West London. We have an on-site PICU, and support from medical and surgical specialties across Imperial College Healthcare NHS trust and West London Childrens Hospital. We run a busy co-located 4 bedded Paediatric CDU, and we have a co-located Urgent Treatment Centre.

We are an academic and teaching hospital, with strong research links to Imperial College for both paediatrics and trauma, and multiple active projects ongoing. We host medical students on paediatric, ED and elective placements. We have a culture of innovation and improvement. We have clinical fellows in Paediatric Trauma and in Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) with expertise in these areas within the consultant body.

We are looking for a consultant with subspecialty training in Paediatric Emergency Medicine, or who can demonstrate equivalent training and competencies, to work as part of our team of 9 consultants. Key qualities include the ability to manage the various pressures within a busy emergency department, an enthusiasm to work well with people and a desire to help maintain a culture of learning and improvement in everyday practice.

Main duties of the job

This is a clinical post and majority of the work is in the department providing direct patient care, clinical leadership and support for the medical and nursing staff, ensuring the safety of patients and delivery of high-quality emergency care in an effective and efficient manner. The post holder is expected to lead paediatric major trauma teams. We also expect consultants to work closely with the nursing team to maintain a safe department and ensure appropriate flow. The post holder will develop good working relationships with the general paediatric, specialist and surgical teams, and all of the therapists and allied health professionals that our patients require. Consultants are "on the shop floor" until 10 pm every day (including weekends) on a 1:8 basis.

Post-holders are expected to contribute to the wealth of teaching opportunities both within the department (for both undergraduates and for medical and nursing staff), and across the trust (for example FY training), RCEM training, APLS etc, formal and informal teaching sessions, and work placed based assessments. The post-holder will be expected to provide educational supervision to relevant resident doctors.

We are keen to continue to embed a culture of innovation and improvement within the department and we expect consultants to actively participate in this and support trainees and nursing staff with their own projects. Consultants are also expected to support the extensive research activity within the department.

About us

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly,part time or job share. Please talk tous at interview.

Job responsibilities

Key areas of responsibilities-

Provide High Quality Care to Patients in presenting as an Emergency, both in direct clinical care, and in supporting the resident doctors, nurses and other specialty teams in their management of the children and young people.

Provide Teaching and Training to all members of the MDT within the department, for specialist teams who manage patients in the ED, for the wider medical and nursing teams within the trust who may deal with children, and to the undergraduate students in their paediatric learning.

Provide support for the research activity within the ED, and help translate new evidence into practice.

Provide educational supervision for resident doctors to enable their development.

To work with medical, nursing and managerial colleagues to ensure high performance in clinical efficiency, quality care, financial management and operational efficiency.

To help manage the staff within the department, including ensuring compliance of resident medical team rotas, ensuring adequate safe staffing, and engaging with regular job planning and regular appraisal.

To help review clinical outcomes, participate in incident reporting and safety reviews (using the PSIRF framework), responding to complaints and ensuring guidelines and protocols are up to date and adhered to.

To demonstrate excellent leadership skills, trust values, collaboration with colleagues, role model exemplary behaviour and attitudes, and to help resolve conflict and difficult situations through negotiation and discussion.

The consultant body are responsible for the quality of care and the safety of our patients, and are heavily involved in the governance processes, safeguarding processes and safety work within the department.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• On GMC specialist register Paediatrics (PEM) or Emergency Medicine (PEM) or Paediatrics
• MRCPCH or FCEM
• ATLS, APLS and/or ALS provider
• Higher degree or research degree
• APLS/ATLS Instructor
• PEM subspecialty certification
• Completion of training in PEM or Acute Paediatrics with an interest in PEM
• Relevant experience in PEM/acute paediatrics in UK
• Relevant experience in paediatric same day emergency/ambulatory care

Clinical skills

• Able to demonstrate clinical skills in line with RCPCH or RCEM PEM curriculum
• Additional clinical skills appropriate for post (eg POCUS)
• Experience of clinical leadership of PED, acute paediatrics
• Experience of managing workforce issues and planning
• Experience of service development

Teaching & Training

• Experience of clinical teaching
• Experience of educational and clinical supervision
• Completion educational training course
• Higher teaching qualification
• Experience of leading training and educational programme

Language

• Able to speak and write English to the appropriate standard necessary to fulfil the job requirements

Quality improvement

• Evidence of completion of improvement work, with use of QI tools/audit, and with evidence of implementation of recommendations
• Higher training in Quality Improvement and Innovation

Audit

• EEvidence of completion of improvement work, with use of QI tools/audit, and with evidence of implementation of recommendations
• Higher training in Quality Improvement and Innovation

Academic achievements/research/publications

• Evidence of participation in clinical research
• Evidence of publications

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.

Head of Service- Paediatric Emergency Medicine

Depending on experience£105,504 to £139,882 per annum WTE