East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
We have an exciting opportunity within Emergency Medicine here at Colchester Hospital. We are looking for a new Consultant to join our team in Emergency Department to extend our Consultant Team. At ESNEFT, there is significant scope for motivated Consultants to take a lead in shaping the future of emergency care on both a local and regional level. The role is full time and will include on-call commitment. We encourage independent thinking and the chance to develop a portfolio career. The Trust will support Consultants in developing a special interest within Emergency Medicine such as Academic Emergency Medicine, Paediatric Emergency Medicine, Trauma, Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine (PHEM), and Emergency Ultrasound.
Successful candidates will enjoy the variety of clinical practice that comes from working in a busy district general hospital while developing their own special interest both clinically and non-clinically. You will be responsible, along with the other Consultants, for developing and maintaining the high standard of care we provide to our patients. This post will be part of the full Emergency Department Consultant rota.
Main duties of the job
All consultants in the department have a continuing and individual responsibility for the care of patients in their charge and a general responsibility to provide, in conjunction with their colleagues, an effective service to meet the needs of local people within the resources available.
The postholder will:
1. Work with colleagues to provide a Consultant-led and Consultant delivered service.
2. Develop care pathways and clinical protocols involving all relevant parties.
3. Collaborate and promote close working links with colleagues, other specialties, and primary care.
4. Offer educational, clinical support and leadership to junior medical colleagues, nursing colleagues, and other members of the team.
5. Provide a role model of professional leadership, which underpins the corporate values and behaviours agreed by the organisation.
6. Ensure that junior doctors' training conforms to College requirements.
About us
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics, and in patients' own homes. We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options. Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
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Job responsibilities
The key duties and responsibilities are:
1. Provide senior clinician services to Emergency Department/Ambulatory Emergency Care Unit as follows: Clinical and administrative responsibility for the proper functioning of the Emergency Department.
2. Develop joint protocols for the management of emergency cases.
3. Develop standards, procedures, and robust systems in the Emergency Department to ensure safe, high-quality, and efficient patient care from the point of entry into Emergency Department to admission or discharge from Emergency Department.
4. Agree and ensure clear processes for handover and triage from Emergency Department.
5. Supervise junior medical staff.
6. Work with other members of the Emergency Medicine Team to provide adequate clinical care in Adult and Paediatric Emergency Medicine.
7. Emergency consultants provide clinical care cover 16 hours a day Monday to Friday and 14 hours direct clinical care over the weekend.
8. The post-holder will be expected to take an appropriate share in the management and administrative workload of the Department.
9. The department actively encourages the development of specialist interests within the Emergency Medicine field.
A standard full-time consultant job plan consists of a combination of DCC, Admin DCC, SPA, and APAs as follows: 7.5 DCC PAs (including clinical admin time). OOH work is paid at an enhanced rate of 2 hours/PA in line with RCEM recommendations on the latest national workforce plan. 2.5 SPA (SPA 1.5 being core SPA with additional roles such as teaching and training and clinical supervision making up the additional PA depending on activities). Total: 10 PAs.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* GMC & entry onto the Specialist Register in Emergency Medicine or within 6 months of CCT date at interview.
* Fellow of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine / FRCEM certificate holder.
* Ultrasound trained - US Level 1 certification.
* ATLS, EPALS or APLS, ALS Provider.
* PEM Consultant.
Experience
* Broad experience in Emergency Medicine in the UK.
* Evidence of having undertaken audit work that has brought about change.
* Evidence of personal practice in all areas described by the RCEM curriculum role as Consultant and all its implied responsibility for clinical management tasks.
* Evidence of having undertaken original research.
Skills
* Ability to lead and work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
* Good written and verbal communication skills to be able to communicate effectively with patients, colleagues, and all.
* Enhanced IT skills.
* Experience of managing an Emergency Department in the last 3 years.
* Possesses at least some business skills & resource management.
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.
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
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