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 a 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 role which will include on call commitment. We encourage independent thinking and the change to develop a portfolio career.
At ESNEFT there is a significant scope for motivated Consultants to take a lead in shaping the future of emergency care on both a local and regional level. 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 have the opportunity to enjoy the variety of clinical practice that comes from working in a busy district general hospital whilst 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
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:
• Work with colleagues to provide a Consultant-led and Consultant delivered service
• To develop care pathways and clinical involving all relevant parties
• Collaborate and promote close working links with colleagues, other specialities and primary care
• Offer educational, clinical support and leadership to junior medical colleagues, nursing colleagues and other members of the Team
• Provide a role model of professional leadership, which underpins the corporate values and behaviours agreed by the organisation
• Ensure that junior doctors training conforms to College requirements
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 organisation 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 thatTime Mattersto 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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The key duties and responsibilities are
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
• To develop joint protocols for the management of emergency cases
• 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
• Agree and ensure clear processes for handover and triage from Emergency Department
• Supervision of the junior medical staff
• You will be expected to work with other members of the Emergency Medicine Team to provide adequate clinical care in Adult and Paediatric Emergency Medicine
• Emergency consultants provide clinical care cover 16 hours a day Monday to Friday and 14 hours direct clinical care over the weekend
• The post-holder will be expected to take an appropriate share in the management and administrative workload of the Department.
• The department actively encourages the development of specialist interests within the Emergency Medicine field
A standard full time consultant job plan consist 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 2hour/PA in line with RCEM recommendations on the latest national workforce plan.
• 2.5 SPA (SPA 1.5 being core SPA with addition roles such a teaching and training and clinical supervision making up the additional PA dependant on activities).
Total: 10 PAs
This advert closes on Sunday 2 Mar 2025