Locum Consultant in Emergency Medicine

Enherts Tr; Stevenage; Remote; GBP 114,000 - 151,000; Full time

Job summary

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust seeks a Locum Consultant in Emergency Medicine for a 12-month fixed-term post at the Lister Hospital, Stevenage. The role includes 10 programmed activities with on-call duties and opportunities for flexible working patterns to support service delivery and patient care.

The post emphasises leadership, teamwork and continuous improvement, with a focus on delivering best practice and patient-centered care across the Emergency Department.

Qualifications

• Hold a current licence to practice from the GMC.
• Fellowship of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (FRCEM).
• Valid ALS/ATLS/APLS Provider status (or equivalent).
• Entry on GMC Specialist Register with subspecialty in Paediatric Emergency Medicine (GRID or equivalent).
• ALS/ATLS/APLS instructor status (at least one).

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality care to patients referred for treatment.
• Liaise with colleagues in other specialties for coordinated care.
• Participate in service governance and strategic planning.
• Involve in teaching and training within the department.
• Engage in continuing medical education and MDT meetings.

Skills

Clinical governance

Leadership

Teaching & training

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Clinical decision making

Education

FRCEM

GMC Specialist Register (Paediatric Emergency Medicine)

ALS/ATLS/APLS provider status

Job description

Main area Emergency Medicine Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant Contract Secondment: 12 months Hours Full time - 10 sessions per week (1:10 on call, including this post) Job ref 361-M&D-8359965

Site Lister Hospital Town Stevenage Salary £113,565 - £150,569 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 22/11/2026 23:59

Here at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities

Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service

Our values - We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do. Our values are:

Include
We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.

Respect
We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.

Improve
We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.

Job overview

This is an excellent opportunity to join the Emergency Medicine department at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are looking to recruit to a 12-month fixed-term post to cover a career break.
The successful candidate will join a service that prides itself in effective leadership, innovative thinking, and excellent teamwork. We strive to challenge our existing working practices and to constantly improve our service to deliver best practice guidance and to ensure that our patient outcomes are successful, and they feel valued during their visits to the Trust.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will join our Emergency Department as a Locum Consultant. Based at Lister Hospital in Stevenage the post comprises of 10 programmed activities (PAs) plus 1.5 indicative additional programmed activities (APAs) including on-call commitment, which could be modified for a candidate preferring to work 10 PAs or less than full time.

The main duties of the role are to provide a high-quality service to patients referred for treatment and care, liaising as necessary with clinical and associated colleagues in other specialties and disciplines.

• Maintenance of high-quality patient centered care
• Shared responsibility for the day-to-day management of the service and participation in strategic planning
• Teaching and training within the multidisciplinary service
• Active involvement in multidisciplinary team meetings and directorate clinical governance activity
• Active participation in continuing medical education

Working for our organisation

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

In the paragraphs above you have read an overview about the role we would like to offer and general information about main duties of the post holder. Please see attached – job description which describes in full details the duties, responsibilities and reporting relationships of the advertising role.

Qualifications

• Hold a current licence to practice from the General Medical Council.
• Fellowship of Royal College of Emergency Medicine (FRCEM)
• Valid ALS (Advanced Life Support), ATLS (Advanced Trauma Life Support), and APLS (Advanced Paediatric Life Support) Provider status (or equivalent).
• Entry on GMC Specialist Register with subspecialty interest in Paediatric Emergency Medicine (GRID or equivalent experience)
• ALS/ATLS/EPALS/APLS instructor status (at least one of these)

Previous Experience

• Experience of supervising undergraduates, doctors in training and other colleagues
• Ability to offer and be accountable for full and independent expert diagnostic opinion
• Can evidence leading on patient safety issues and achieving a change in practice
• Broad experience in Paediatric Emergency Medicine, including a wide range of emergency procedures. Experience in day-to‑day organisation of paediatric services. Experience managing acute childhood trauma and injuries
• Published papers and original work in peer reviewed journals
• Demonstrate an understanding of the basic principles of audit, evidencebased practice and clinical quality improvement initiatives
• Demonstrable experience and participation in research

Skills

• Able to evidence engagement with clinical governance and the identification of errors and the learning from errors.
• Evidence engagement with appraisal and revalidation
• Able to show situational awareness and application of good decision making
• Ability to effectively teach clinical skills
• Ability to critically appraise published evidence

Knowledge

• Demonstrate understanding of basic principles of audit, evidence-based practice, and clinical quality improvement initiatives
• Comprehensive knowledge and insight regarding all the domains within the GMC standards of Good Medical Practice

Other requirements

• Demonstrates an interest and commitment to the specialty
• Experience and evidence of engagement around the equality, diversity, and inclusion agenda. Able to actively support the development of a culture that recognises and promotes equality, values diversity, and actively leads by example in deploying these qualities. Understands the impact on equality, diversity, and inclusion issues in all aspects of service delivery and planning
• Role model our Trust values every day
• Understands and can demonstrate the values of the NHS constitution
• Evidence of being up to date and fit to practice safely, and aware of own training needs

Secondments/Fixed term

Where a vacancy is advertised as a temporary position, the duration will be specified in the advert. If the vacancy becomes permanent towards the end of the specified duration, the successful applicant may not be required to re-apply and can be slotted into the role on a permanent basis if appropriate.

If you are an internal applicant applying for a temporary working arrangement, please see the attached notes on secondments.

Committed to our Community

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for all job applicants, staff, patients and the wider community. We want to create a workforce which represents the communities we serve. We are on a journey to become a more inclusive organisation and we welcome applications from everyone regardless of their background. In particular we encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, and candidates from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds who are currently under‑represented in various parts of our workforce .

We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to support flexible working for our staff wherever possible and all our employees are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and achieved our status in 2019.

We will remove barriers that prospective candidates might face at any stage of our recruitment process. If you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact us by emailing [e-mail]

We are also proud to support our UK armed forces by supporting Reservists, Cadet Instructors, Veterans and military spouses/partners into employment and offering supportive policies that value their contribution to the community and to our Trust.

We are committed to being a carer‑friendly environment, addressing the complex needs of families with caring responsibilities. In partnership with Carers in Hertfordshire, all our working carers have access to support from recruitment. We are also a member of Carers UK, providing resources to make balancing work and caring easier. Our approach is inclusive, recognising diverse challenges and creating a supportive environment where carers feel valued.

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