Locum Consultant in Emergency Medicine

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust; England; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A major NHS Trust in London is looking for a Locum Consultant in Emergency Medicine to lead clinical services across two hospitals. The role involves managing emergency teams and developing quality improvement initiatives. Candidates should have FRCEM or equivalent, full GMC registration, along with essential life support qualifications. This is a 12-month fixed-term position for maternity cover.

Qualifications

• Must have FRCEM or equivalent.
• Full GMC registration required.
• MD, PhD or equivalent needed.
• CCT/CESR on Specialist Register is essential.

Responsibilities

• Providing clinical leadership to the Emergency Departments.
• Collaborating with management in developing medical policy.
• Ensuring high quality clinical services in the ED.

Skills

Current life support provider for ATLS, ALS and APLS

Current life support course for ATLS or ALS

Ultrasound qualification

Education

FRCEM or equivalent

Full GMC registration - Licence to practice

MD, PhD or equivalent

CCT/CESR - On Specialist Register

Job description

Locum Consultant in Emergency Medicine

London North West University Hospitals seeks dynamic, skilled individuals to join their Emergency Medicine Consultant team across our two Emergency Departments at Northwick Park and Ealing Hospitals. This post will be a 12 month fixed term role for maternity cover.

Providing clinical leadership to the Emergency Departments (EDs) at both Ealing and Northwick Park sites, in co-operation with the Clinical Directors. The EDs are currently involved in many Quality Improvement activities and are looking for established or newly qualified consultants to be part of the team. (Dual qualification in paediatric medicine is desirable but not essential).

The Departments offer wide ranges of services to emergency patients. The new consultant will help run and develop these services and have joint responsibility for leading and developing initiatives to ensure improvement in performance of the clinical indicators.

To oversee and ensure the provision of high quality clinical services within the Emergency Department and to lead appropriate training and audit activity.

To collaborate in the development of Emergency services both in terms of the facilities available and new systems, processes and procedures.

Main duties of the job

To be responsible, with the Nursing Shift Leader, for efficient floor management including deployment of junior medical staff.

To collaborate with the Lead Clinician and the Senior Nurse Management Team in the development and implementation of medical policy for the running of the department.

Participation in the medical advisory and liaison work of the hospital Medical Staff Committee and to share the workload of the involvement in any other committees relating to the Emergency Department. For example, Clinical Governance, Safeguarding Adults, Transfusion, Major Incident etc.

Ensuring the use of the computer systems within the department by education and direction of junior doctors' activity.

To co-operate with the consultant team in the recruitment and appointment of junior medical staff in consultation with the Department of Human Resources and the ED Senior Nurse Management Team. He/she will also be expected when required to involve themselves with the recruitment and appointment of the registrar and, when necessary, of nurses in the department. He/she will help to organise and give guidance to the deployment of junior staff duties including allocation and supervision of clinical work where necessary.

About us

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.

Job responsibilities

To view the main responsibility, please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification

Person Specification

Qualifications

• FRCEM or equivalent
• Full GMC registration - Licence to practice
• MD, PhD or equivalent
• CCT/CESR - On Specialist Register

Knowledge and Expertise

• Current life support provider for ATLS, ALS and APLS or European equivalents.
• Current life support course for ATLS or ALS or ALS, HMIMMS/MIMMS or European equivalents, ultrasound qualification

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.

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