Job summary
Consultant in Emergency Medicine
Division: Medicine and Emergency Care
Care Group: Emergency Medicine
Grade: Consultant
Salary: £84,559 - £114,003 per annum / pro rata
Interview Date: 30th April 2024
We are recruiting for a Consultant in Emergency Medicine who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best Peopleand has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking applications from highly-motivated individuals for full-time/part-time positions, who will enhance the existing highly-functioning, award-winning, and supportive team of thirteen consultants to provide excellent clinical care and supervision with robust shop-floor leadership and inspiring education, and expanding the consultant workforce to sixteen.
Dual accreditation is welcomed e.g. Paediatric EM or ICU. Pre-hospital opportunities are being developed with our local partners for a planned Physician Response Unit.
Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
About us
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.
The NHS are striving towards "we work flexibly" as a workforce, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and importantly for you. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.
We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under - represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.
All staff at Medway comply the Trust's and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board's policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The ED at Medway has a strong reputation for education and simulation, for all staff. Our focus on high quality development has been reflected in our recent CQC report and HE Deanery Quality Visit.
We are progressive with diversification of workforce, compassionate leadership and flexible working conditions to aid recruitment and retention. The ED shares learning from adverse incidents and celebrates excellence with GREATIX.
We are a major acute centre and designated Trauma Unit, with additional services on site. There is a large Critical Care department, a Tertiary Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, and the regional Urological Cancer Centre.
The consultant will supervise and train the junior and middle grade doctors in emergency medicine, Physician Associates (PA), Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACP) and the Emergency Nurse Practitioners (ENP).
Job description
Job responsibilities
The ED at Medway has a strong reputation for education and simulation, for all staff. Our focus on high quality development has been reflected in our recent CQC report and HE Deanery Quality Visit.
We are progressive with diversification of workforce, compassionate leadership and flexible working conditions to aid recruitment and retention. The ED shares learning from adverse incidents and celebrates excellence with GREATIX.
We are a major acute centre and designated Trauma Unit, with additional services on site. There is a large Critical Care department, a Tertiary Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, and the regional Urological Cancer Centre.
The consultant will supervise and train the junior and middle grade doctors in emergency medicine, Physician Associates (PA), Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACP) and the Emergency Nurse Practitioners (ENP).
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Extensive experience in emergency medicine and related fields which would be appropriate to CESR requirements
- FRCEM or equivalent qualification
- Full GMC Registration
- Has specialist registration in Emergency Medicine
Knowledge
Essential
- Clinical Governance principles
- Research principles are an advantage
- Understanding of Human Factors
Experience
Essential
- Appropriate training in Emergency Medicine.
- Experience of teaching doctors in training and undergraduates.
- Experience of clinical audit.
- Provider for ALS, APLS, ATLS (instructor is desirable).
Skills
Essential
- Ability to make decisions at consultant level.
- Sufficient leadership, organisational, communication, professional and personal skills to effectively undertake the role of consultant.
- Ability to inspire, lead and motivate.
Values Based Question
Essential
- Give an example of a time where you have demonstrated a 'can do' attitude (including the situation you were in) and the outcome
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Extensive experience in emergency medicine and related fields which would be appropriate to CESR requirements
- FRCEM or equivalent qualification
- Full GMC Registration
- Has specialist registration in Emergency Medicine
Knowledge
Essential
- Clinical Governance principles
- Research principles are an advantage
- Understanding of Human Factors
Experience
Essential
- Appropriate training in Emergency Medicine.
- Experience of teaching doctors in training and undergraduates.
- Experience of clinical audit.
- Provider for ALS, APLS, ATLS (instructor is desirable).
Skills
Essential
- Ability to make decisions at consultant level.
- Sufficient leadership, organisational, communication, professional and personal skills to effectively undertake the role of consultant.
- Ability to inspire, lead and motivate.
Values Based Question
Essential
- Give an example of a time where you have demonstrated a 'can do' attitude (including the situation you were in) and the outcome
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
