Locum Consultant in Emergency Medicine - Whiston Hospital

Merseywestlancs; Knowsley; On-site; GBP 114,000 - 151,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

NHS pension scheme

27 days annual leave (pro rata)

Job summary

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is recruiting a Locum Consultant in Emergency Medicine for Whiston Hospital. This full-time fixed-term post runs for 12 months as a 10 PA per week arrangement. Applicants must be fully GMC registered and hold MBBS with FRCEM or equivalent.

Salary ranges from £113,565 to £150,569 per annum with a yearly pay period. The role offers NHS terms, with negotiable days and flexible working patterns where possible.

Qualifications

• Full GMC registration at the time of appointment.
• MBBS or equivalent medical qualification.
• FRCEM or equivalent medical qualification.
• ALS, ATLS or ETC and APLS or equivalent qualification.
• Instructor status for one or more of the life support courses.

Responsibilities

• Provide emergency care in a busy ED setting.
• Lead and support junior doctors and clinical practitioners.
• Ensure high standards of patient safety and clinical governance.
• Deliver patient-centred, multi-disciplinary care in line with GMC guidelines.

Skills

GMC registration

Emergency Medicine knowledge

Leadership

Education

MBBS or equivalent

FRCEM or equivalent

ALS/ATLS/APLS

Instructor status in life support

Job description

We want talented and enthusiastic people from all backgrounds to join #TeamMWL, with us you can learn, grow and develop yourself and your career, realising your true ambitions and aspirations.

Whatever you’re looking for in your career, you’ll find it here at MWL.

Locum Consultant in Emergency Medicine - Whiston Hospital

NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant

Main area Medical and Dental Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant Contract Locum: 12 months Hours Full time - 10 sessions per week (10 PA per week) Job ref 409-8316984-A

Site Whiston Hospital Town Prescot Salary £113,565 - £150,569 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 17/11/2026 23:59

Job overview

This post is for a Locum Consultant in Emergency Medicine. This is a full-time fixed term post for 12 months offering an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated Medic to join a dynamic, rapidly expanding team delivering multidisciplinary care in Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals.

Applicants are required to be fully registered with the General Medical Council at the time of appointment.

Main duties of the job

Medical Care Group

The emergency department is managed within the medical care group which includes medical specialities and paediatrics. Recent developments within the care group include an extensive project, Medicine Redesign, with many developments for improving efficiencies in the ED, acute and speciality medical wards. The Trust is very engaged in delivering egress from the Emergency Department. An expansion of consultant physicians has allowed progress to move towards 7 day working throughout all medical wards.

Job Plan

(days not fixed and negotiable with new employee and current staff)

You will work a 10 PA fixed term contract for one year.

1PA SPA, 9 PA clinical working both in paediatrics and adults

You will be required to work Monday evenings starting at 4pm and finishing at midnight

You will be required to work 1 in 6 weekends

There will be no on call commitment

Working for our organisation

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

Our services:

Acute Care

Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.

Primary Care

Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.

Community Services

Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.

Specialist Regional Services

We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

Achievements:

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please find attached detailed job description and person specification for main responsibilities and requirements.

Person specification

Our Values

• We are Kind
• We are Open
• We are Inclusive

Qualifications

• Full GMC registration at the time of appointment
• MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
• FRCEM or equivalent medical qualification
• ALS, ATLS or ETC and APLS or equivalent qualification
• Instructor status for one or more of the life support courses

Knowledge and Experience

• Evidence of achievement of competencies by time of appointment in line with GMC standards/Good Medical Practice including: Good clinical care Maintaining good medical practice Good relationships and communication with patients Good working relationships with colleagues Good teaching and training Professional behaviour and probity Delivery of good acute clinical
• Clinical training and experience to manage, supervise and offer expert clinical opinion on patients of all ages presenting to the Emergency Department
• Taking full independent responsibility for all patients in the Emergency Department
• Advise and manage the efficient running of the Emergency Department including leadership for junior doctors / clinical practitioners within the department
• Experience of supervising doctors and practitioners with the ability to teach clinical and practical skills as required
• Evidence of appropriate teaching experience
• Demonstrates ability to undertake robust audit within team structure
• Evidence of feedback or peer review on these skills
• Experience of formally supervising medical students, F1, F2, ACCS and specialist trainees
• Evidence of relevant research e.g. presentations, publications in peer reviewed journals
• The ability to apply outcomes to clinical problems

Other

• Is up to date and fit to practise safe

Thank you for considering an application to work for Mersey West Lancashire NHS Trust. MWL is an exciting and forward-thinking NHS Trust who are one of the best places to work for in England.

Given sometimes we receive a high volume of applications to work for us, please be aware, that we may close a vacancy earlier than stated should a sufficient number of applications be received from which a shortlist can be confirmed. Therefore, you are advised to apply at your earliest convenience.

The Trust may contact you during the recruitment process for your feedback on your experience. We always aim for continuous improvement in our practice.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

We actively cultivate a professional environment of fairness, equality, dignity, and respect for all individuals. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds and value the unique skills, perspective and experience you bring. We are grounded in the belief that diversity enhances our collective strength, fostering innovation and excellence within our workforce. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion/belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

As a Disability Confident Leader, we commit to offering an interview to all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job (the essential criteria) listed in the personal specification. If you wish to apply under this Guaranteed Interview Scheme, please indicate this on the online application form.

If you are having difficulty completing an online application, or require any disability reasonable adjustments, to the application process, please contact [e-mail]

We also commit to offering an interview to all armed forces veterans who meet the minimum criteria for the job (the essential criteria) listed in the personal specification. If you wish to apply under this Guaranteed Interview Scheme, please indicate this on the online application form.

The Trust operates anonymous shortlisting where no personal information about you, including your name or personal details are shared with the recruiting manager. No equality information is shared at any time during the recruitment process with the recruiting manager or other people involved in the decision-making process.

The equality monitoring information you provide is used in the following situations: to review our recruitment practices; where a job is limited to a specific person to verify their eligibility to apply; and to offer disability reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process.Certificate of Sponsorship

Following the recent update on UK immigration policy for those on a Health and Care Visa or Skilled Worker Visa, please click here to check your eligibility before applying for this post as we may be unable to provide sponsorship.

eVisa Update

For successful candidates on selected work and study visa routes, who have completed and paid for their applications will no longer receive a visa vignette in passport as evidence of their permission to enter the UK.

Instead, you will be issued with an eVisa only, which is accessed by creating a UKVI account.

Before travelling to the UK, we advise applicants to:

• Understand how to generate an eVisa share code

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

If this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 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.

Please note if applicable, applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment.

If you have not already done so, you are therefore encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service to which a small annual fee of £13 per year applies.

Flexible Working

• All employees have the right to request flexible working from day one of employment.
• There is no limit on the number of requests they can make.
• Employees have the right to make requests, have them considered, regardless of the reason.

At Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, we will consider requests for flexible working. We would also encourage you to also discuss flexible working options at interview stage.

Working for Team MWL

Staff recognition is especially important to us; as well as performance reviews and appraisals, we recognise staff through Employee of the month. Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

The Trust is a non-smoking across all our sites. Failure to follow this rule could lead to disciplinary action. For more information, see the Smoke Free NHS website.

You will be expected to undertake the Trusts' commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.

You must ensure that your application, including personal statements and behaviour examples, are truthful and factually accurate. Please note plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.

The Trust will not accept applications which are found to be AI generated and will check all applications against AI detection software.

Additional Information

Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trusts Values and Behaviours which are We are KIND, We are OPEN, We are INCLUSIVE, which can be found here .

An applicant guide to help and support you with your application and what to expect in the recruitment journey can be accessed in the supporting documents.

Good luck with your application. We hope to welcome you to Team MWL very soon.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Ben Thompson-Jones Job title Directorate Manager Email address [e-mail] Telephone number via emails