Employer: East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: William Harvey Hospital
Town: Ashford
Salary: £59,175 - £95,400 basic per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 23/09/2024 08:00
Specialty Doctor in Emergency Medicine
Job overview
Emergency Medicine in East Kent Hospitals is at an exciting period of redevelopment, having attracted national investment to rebuild both Emergency Departments at William Harvey Hospital, Ashford and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital, Margate.
Our Emergency Departments provide innovative and fast-paced integrated emergency care to a wide range of patients from East Kent. It is our inspiration to develop into an academic and research unit in emergency medicine for Kent. The Emergency Departments, one at the William Harvey Hospital (WHH), Ashford and the other at the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital (QEQMH), Margate, each offer a full 24-hour emergency service.
Main duties of the job
To provide high quality care to patients including clinical leadership and supervision of junior medical staff, ensuring the highest standards of clinical care are provided to all patients attending the ED.
To be proactive in ensuring that all patients receive rapid assessment, treatment and clinical decision making, whilst ensuring that the Emergency Access Standards are adhered to, ensuring that we deliver safe, high quality care.
Patient safety, dignity and care are the highest priority and at the centre of all that we do. Whilst on duty in the department, the ED consultant will provide highly visible and focused clinical leadership - working in conjunction with the nurse in charge of the shift and the SpR/specialty doctor lead to ensure that there is effective and timely communication between the clinical team maintaining optimal patient flow.
To be proactive in the Care Group’s clinical governance agenda and take on leadership roles to support continuous learning and improvement, thereby abiding by the clinical and corporate governance policies of the Trust. To liaise with clinicians and managers within and outside the department to address issues arising that affect the services.
Working for our organisation
We positively promote flexible working practices. To ensure that our workforce reflects the population we serve, we welcome applications from all sections of the community.
The Trust is committed to supporting flexible working to fulfil our pledge as part of The Trust’s People Strategy to help staff to achieve a healthy work/life balance. Please speak with your Recruiting Manager for further information and opportunities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more information please see attached Job Description and person Specification located in 'Supporting Documents'.
Person specification
Skills and Experience
* Wide and extensive experience in all aspects of Emergency Medicine
* The ability to converse at ease in English
* Special interest within or outside of Emergency Medicine
Qualifications and Training
* Full GMC Registration
* Minimum of English Level 2 (GCSE grade C or equivalent), ILETS, or graduate of a UK Medical School
* 2 years minimum experience in Emergency Medicine
* ALS
* Leadership or Teaching experience
* Distinctions, scholarships, prizes, publications.
* Other degrees, e.g. BSc, MSc, MD
* Experience in ITU/Paediatrics/Medicine/Anaesthetics
* ATLS/APLS
Clinical Governance
* Evidence of participation in or an understanding of audit, complaints management, root cause analysis/serious incident investigation, plus morbidity/mortality meetings and Structured Judgement Reviews
Personal/professional attributes
* Welcoming and polite
* Respect people and their dignity
* Attentive and helpful
* Vigilant about safety Speak up on behalf of those who can
* Passionate about advancing Emergency Care
Filmed in William Harvey and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother hospitals, the ‘We are the NHS’ campaign highlights the extraordinary work that staff across EKHUFT do every single day. As one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with five hospitals and community clinics serving a population of over one million people, EKHUFT was perfectly placed to demonstrate the care, cutting-edge treatments, research, innovations and life-saving operations that the campaign needed.
We’ll close this job advert once we’ve received sufficient applications which may be before the closing date so please apply as soon as possible. We only accept online applications. If you have any difficulty with this please contact our Resourcing Team on 01227 866450 who are happy to help.
We have a relocation policy for eligible candidates, parking available at Trust sites but we encourage other options, like car sharing or public transport.
The Trust is committed to supporting flexible working to fulfil our pledge as part of The Trust’s People Strategy to help staff to achieve a healthy work/life balance. Please speak with your Recruiting Manager for further information on how this can be managed alongside department expectations and requirements.
The ability to converse easily and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for all customer facing roles.
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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: Andrew Mortimer
Job title: Clinical Director of Urgent and Emergency Care
Email address: andrewmortimer@nhs.net
Additional information: Dr Andrew Mortimer Email: andrewmortimer@nhs.net, or via, Gerry Hook 01233 616171
Dr Wayne Kissoon (Clinical Lead for ED at QEQM) Email: wayne.kissoon@nhs.net or 01843 225544 extension 6657
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