Consultant Emergency Medicine

Job summary

The Emergency Department are actively seeking qualified Consultant within the area or for those who are looking to relocate and commence employment as a substantive Consultant.

This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the largest NHS hospitals in the whole of the UK, including our brand-new Major Trauma Centre building which is due to open in 2024.

You will join a team of 25 Emergency Medicine Consultants, 2 Specialists working at Consultant level, 4 Ambulatory Paediatricians and 3 Paediatric Emergency Nurse Consultants.

The sucessful candidate will participate in delivering the full spectrum of Emergency Care across the Emergency Village ,which includes our brand-new state of the art Emergency Receiving Area (ERA) situated within our new Major Trauma Centre building.

• If you have a keen interest in research, there are many opportunities open to you within the Major Trauma Centre. Our services based within the building have a strong research-ethos.
• You can be part of a series of exciting firsts, including the installation of the RAPTOR theatre, the first hybrid major trauma theatre in the UK.
• If you've got a head for heights, you can be proud to work in a building, which introduces a helipad to the Salford Royal's site and crucially, gets the sickest patients to hospital even faster.
• You can be a part of a Trust with a team dedicated to training and educating clinicians of the future.

Main duties of the job

Unscheduled care of adult and Paediatric patients presenting to A&E with a broad spectrum of clinical conditions.

Delivery of trauma care in the new trauma and resuscitation center

Morning ward rounds in the Emergency Village

Shop floor clinical supervision of junior medical staff, nurse clinicians and nurse practitioners over the whole of the unscheduled care service. Participation in multi-disciplinary meetings related to direct patient care.

Patient related administration including complaint handling, police statements and coroners' reports.

About us

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

We are currently in process of updating our values. For the latest information around our values and behaviours, please visit our careers website https://careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk/