Specialty Doctor in Emergency Medicine

NHS; Swindon; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a Specialty Doctor in Emergency Medicine. This role offers the opportunity to manage a busy department and enhance leadership skills while providing high-quality clinical care. The Trust emphasizes staff wellbeing and offers extensive support. Candidates should be GMC registered with relevant experience and a passion for education and innovation.

Qualifications

• Experience within a specialty relevant to the role.
• EM experience and expertise in a full range of medical conditions.

Responsibilities

• Manage clinical care of patients in a busy Emergency Department.
• Lead departmental innovation and quality improvement projects.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Teamwork

Education

MRCEM or equivalent

Fully registered with the GMC with licence to practice

Tools

Advanced level IT skills

Job description

Go back Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Specialty Doctor in Emergency Medicine

The closing date is 23 May 2025

Applicants are invited to apply for a Specialty Doctor in Emergency Medicine post,

The post will be Emergency Medicine clinical care allowing an opportunity for doctors wanting to gain experience and responsibility in not just managing patients but managing a busy department (at Registrar level).

As a Trust, we place high importance on staff wellbeing, you will be offered a wide variety of support to help you maintain your wellbeing and to help colleagues maintain theirs. The Trusts Health and Wellbeing team has won a National Award during 2020 for the work they have done locally.

• The Trust's overriding vision is to provide the highest quality services to our local population and so to be the hospital of choice. This vision is linked to key goals:
• Improve satisfaction and confidence in our services.
• Continue to be the local healthcare provider of choice.
• To provide clinically appropriate and safe outreach services in the community which meet commissioners and patients.
• To maximise the value of being a Foundation Trust by ensuring our services are embedded in and valued by our community

Main duties of the job

The Duties outlined below are not definitive and may be changed in accordance with the needs of the service.

The post holder under the direction of senior colleagues will undertake the below duties, these are not definitive and may be changed in accordance with the needs of the service.

• Take a history and examine a patient
• Identify and synthesize problems
• Prescribe safely
• Keep an accurate and relevant medical record (electronic notes)
• Manage time and clinical priorities effectively
• Communicate effectively with patients, relatives and colleagues
• Use evidence, guidelines and audit to benefit patient care

About us

Our STAR values are at the heart of everything we do. You can expect to see them in the way we act and the way we treat each other. Our values make us who we are. We will expect your values and behaviours to reflect the STAR Values of the organisation:

ServiceWe will put our patients first

TeamworkWe will work together

Ambition We will aspire to provide the best service

RespectWe will act with integrity

Job responsibilities

We are a busy DGH Emergency Department that sees a wide variety of presentations (in both adult and paediatric). We deal with medical, surgical, orthopaedic, paediatric and trauma patients. These patients can present and be assessed in resus, majors, minors or paediatric ED.

40% of the time will be spent undertaking departmental innovation/quality improvement projects. The ideal candidate will be a doctor who wishes to take time to do more leadership, education and innovation. You may wish to discover your leadership, management and influencing skills. You may have a passion to enhance your medicoassociated skills such as development of new pathways, finding solutions to problems or systems design. You will be dynamic, self-driven and able to manage your time.

Further details can be found on the attached job description.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Fully registered with the GMC with licence to practice
• ALS provider status
• MRCEM or equivalent
• ATLS/ETC provider status
• APLS/EPALS provider status

Clinical Experience

• Some experience within a specialty relevant to the role
• EM experience.
• Expertise in full range of medical conditions
• Ability to help lead and supervise a multi-professional team and take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
• Some experience at Middle Grade level in EM

Teaching and Research

• Interest in leading multi-professional education
• Ability to supervise post-graduate projects
• Publications in peer reviewed journals

Management Administration

• Ability to manage priorities
• Experience of audit/QI and management
• Flexible approach and Ability to lead project teams
• Advanced level IT skills

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.

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust