Consultant in Emergency Medicine

Job title:

Consultant in Emergency Medicine

Company

British Medical Journal

Job description

The Consultant Team works from a group job plan. Each consultant will agree an individualisation of the group job plan with the service Clinical Leads/Directors and Clinical Care Group Director annually, on behalf of the Chief Executive.The department supports individually designed job plans that fulfil the clinical responsibilities while allowing for each consultant to develop and enhance academic and other professional interests both within and external to the trust.The post holder will undertake clinical and non-clinical duties in the adult emergency departmentAll consultants will assume responsibility both singly and corporately for the management of junior medical staff. They are also expected to concern themselves with the professional development, both clinical and personal of their trainees. Consultants must be aware of Trust polices & targets and provide a role model in achieving these corporate objectives.Main duties of the jobClinical

• Primary Clinical Care: Undertake direct clinical care of undifferentiated patients presenting to the Emergency Departments.
• Team Leader: Act as Team leader co-ordinating the acute resuscitation or patients presenting to the resuscitation room with major trauma, cardiac arrest and major medical emergencies.
• Area Led: Manage clinical areas of the department over-seeing the management of all patients in that area and supporting the medical and nursing team members working in that area.
• Every Consultant will work in all areas of the department including RAFTing, Resus, Majors and CDU/SDEC.
• Emergency Physician in Charge: Working in collaboration with the Nurse in charge to ensure the proper running of the Emergency Department, ensure high standards of clinical care, patient safety and patient experience are maintained throughout the department. Ensure patient care is delivered in line with National Key Performance Indicators for Emergency Care.

Non-Clinical

• The development of quality improvement schemes, risk management and clinical audit
• Planning and delivering the provision of the service. This will include planning how work will be organised.
• The recruitment of junior medical staff and such other staff as appropriate for the department.
• The selection of equipment for the department, ensuring appropriate standards for its monitoring and maintenance.
• Training of nursing, ancillary and junior medical staff.

About usWe’re an organisation that is getting better and better. We were the most improved Trust in England for A& E performance in 2023/24 we’re no longer in special measures and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal. Our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and that our patients are happy with.Many of our 8,000 staff – who come from 146 different countries – live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and the majority are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. More than 400 of them are on apprenticeship programmes and we’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.We operate from two main sites – King George Hospital (KGH) in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two of the busiest emergency departments in London – more than 300,000 people visited our A&Es in 2023.Patients across north east London are benefitting from two new state of the art theatres at KGH and our Community Diagnostic Centres at Barking Community Hospital and St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub will significantly increase the number of scans that can be carried out.We’re looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record next year. This will mean the records of any patient visiting one of the seven hospitals run by BHRUT and Barts Health will be accessible to the clinical teams. It’ll make things easier for staff and will be better for patients.Job description
Job responsibilitiesGroup Job PlanThe department plans to move to an annualised, self-rostered job plan. In the meantime, the below descriptions are provided for indicative purposes.Excluding periods of leave, on average each consultant will deliver the equivalent of:Typical Week without Nights

• 2 Day Clinical Shifts (finishing before 7pm)
• 1 Late Clinical Shift (finishing after 7pm, current late shift finish is 22:00)
• 1 Day of SPA

Shifts may be split to combine a period of SPA associated with a period of DCCThe ED at QH has 24/7 resident consultant cover. Consultants are encouraged to deliver night shifts, but this is not mandatory. Night shifts are self-rostered and will take up 5.33 PA per shift. Currently night shifts start at 20h00 up to 08h30 the following morning. For the new job planning cycle we are planning to reduce the night shifts to 10 hours by starting the shifts at 22h00.Night shifts attract a locally agreed uplift to the standard contractual PA re-numeration such that between 00:00 and 07:00 re-numeration is at 2 hours per PA. The Trust reserves the right to review this local agreement at any time following an appropriate notification period.Night shifts are prospectively covered.The requirement to provide night shift cover is automatically reviewed when a consultant reaches 50 years of age. Consultants over the age of 55 years of age are encouraged to stop undertaking night shift duties except where mutually agreed.Weekend ShiftsOn average each consultant will deliver one pair of weekend shifts alternating between Day and Early shifts in addition to the night weekend, giving a total of 1 in 8 weekends covered prospectively.Applications should be made online, however, queries regarding the application process, assistance with completion of the application form or if you require any adjustments (for applicants with a disability) please contact Azeez, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 ext. 4440.Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Full GMC registration
• FRCEM or equivalent
• ATLS, ALS, APLS Provider

Desirable

• Ability to provide high quality emergency care to undifferentiated patients
• Ability to provide advanced airway management including intubation.
• Demonstrate the ability to anticipate problems, analyse issues, suggest alternative solutions, and make decisions.

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Expected salary

£105504 – 139882 per year

Location

Romford, Greater London

Job date

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 00:40:16 GMT

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