Specialty Doctor in Emergency Medicine and Urgent Care

Integrated Care System; Halifax; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare organization is seeking a Specialty Doctor in Emergency Medicine to join their team. The successful candidate will provide high-quality clinical care and participate in educational training within the Emergency Department. Applicants should possess strong emergency medicine experience and the ability to manage high-pressure situations. This full-time role is integral to enhancing urgent and emergency services for the community.

Qualifications

• Must have 4 years postgraduate experience including 2 years in Emergency Medicine specialty.
• Understanding of current issues within Emergency Medicine and wider NHS.

Responsibilities

• Clinically and educationally responsible to the Clinical Director for Emergency Care.
• Manage general clinical responsibilities for patients in the Emergency Department.
• Participate in training and supervision of junior medical staff.

Skills

Clinical expertise in Emergency Medicine

High-pressure situation management

Teaching and training

Communication and empathy skills

Education

MRCEM or equivalent

Full Registration with General Medical Council

Job description

Go back Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Specialty Doctor in Emergency Medicine and Urgent Care

The closing date is 16 September 2025

We are inviting applications in the Emergency Medicine Department at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust for Trust doctors at Registrar.

The role will be an entirely clinical role at middle grade level within the department and the successful candidate will work with the current team in supporting and developing the department. Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust is heavily invested in providing an excellent Urgent and Emergency Care system for our population. We are looking to recruit motivated and enthusiastic doctors to provide care in the Emergency Departments and/or our Urgent SDEC (uSDEC)

Main duties of the job

The Emergency Departments at Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary are currently led by 23 consultants who work across both sites providing 16hr shop-floor cover 7 days a week at both sites and on-call cover beyond that. Specialty Doctors, Higher Specialty Trainees and ST3+ grade doctors provide 24 hour shop-floor cover at both sites.

There is a consultant led Trauma Team at Huddersfield, which has been designated as a Major Trauma Unit in the West Yorkshire Regional Trauma Network. Both Huddersfield and Calderdale have 4 resuscitation bays, including a dedicated paediatric resus area, with X-ray and ultrasound facilities. There are separate majors and minors areas with a play-room available for Families with Younger Children in both departments.

Successful candidates will be involved in the design and delivery of these exciting new additions to regional Emergency Services. As a speciality doctor in the ED we are dedicated to developing you and your interests. Depending on your interests and performance we have various programs we can support including entry on to our CESR program (from which previous candidates have been appointed as consultants)

About us

We employ more than 6,500 staffwho deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals,Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, healthcentres and in patients' homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.

We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children's and young people's services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.

We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.

We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation.Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS- yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boardslisten to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff andthe local community.

Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in thechanges to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.

Job responsibilities

The post holders will be clinically and educationally responsible to the Clinical Director for Emergency Care

Will be responsible for the general clinical management of patients attending the Emergency Department.

Will be expected to comply with the Emergency Departments and Trusts policies, and to maintain their skills and knowledge through CPD.

Will be expected to participate in the day-to-day training and supervision of junior medical staff and with all other training/teaching activities facilitated by the department.

Will be expected in exceptional circumstances to cover his/her colleagues for unpredicted short-term absence.

May be asked in exceptional circumstances to assist the Ambulance Service in the care of patients at the scene of the accident, as part of the Mobile Medical Team.

May be called to the department when a Major Incident is declared.

Will be expected to participate in the development of emergency treatment protocols.

Will be expected to take an active role in clinical audit and the clinical governance process

Will be required to take an active role in the appraisal process

Will provide professional supervision and encourage the development of all Doctors and ACPs within the Emergency Department.

Will ensure their own practice is up to date: this will include taking responsibility for own clinical professional development and participation in the Trust appraisal system.

Will share responsibility for data protection arising out of the use of computers.

Will comply with all relevant Trust policies and procedures.

The successful applicant will be expected to register with the Royal College of Emergency Medicine for CPD

Person Specification

Qualifications

• MRCEM or equivalent
• Applicants must have Full Registration with the General Medical Council and hold a Licence to Practise

Experience and Achievements

• Must have 4 years post graduate experience including 2 years within the Emergency Medicine Specialty
• Must be able to demonstrate a high level of clinical experience and competence in all aspects of the Emergency Medicine specialty
• Understanding current issues within Emergency Medicine and the future direction of the specialty
• Understanding current issues within the wider NHS
• Attendance at a recognised management course
• Shows ability to work with and lead others across professions

Teaching and Training

• Experience of and enthusiasm for clinical teaching of postgraduate doctors and non-medical staff.
• Academic achievements/evidence of familiarity with research methods which have resulted in publications
• Training in clinical and educational supervision
• Attendance at a teaching course
• Formal qualification in teaching/education

Audit and Research

• Knowledge of Audit principles and evidence of participation in and completion of audit projects
• Critical Appraisal Skills
• Evidence of knowledge of research methodology
• Good communication and empathy skills with patients
• Evidence of willingness to participate in a multi-disciplinary team environment to provide an integrated service
• Ability to work as a member of a team, both through communication and sharing workload
• Ability to manage high pressure situations e.g. clinical crisis
• Ability to prioritise and organise workload and co-ordinate staff
• Ability to integrate the care of a patient by many and various other clinical staff
• Willingness to work flexibly to deliver clinically effective and cost effective healthcare

Practical/Intellectual Skills/Personal Qualities

• Evidence of continual learning and development
• Understands self (strengths and weaknesses) and impact of behaviour on others
• Evidence of innovation

General

• Eligibility to work in the UK
• Ability to work in various locations throughout the network of services provided by Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
• For areas requiring EPP Clearance (Exposure Prone Procedures), this will also be a requirement of the health screening
• An enhanced DBS disclosure will be required with the Disclosure and Barring Service

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.

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust