Locum Consultant in Emergency Medicine

3 weeks ago


Maidstone Kent, United Kingdom Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust Full time

This is a fixed term appointment for a Consultant in Emergency Medicine. The Trust provides a clinical service at both Tunbridge Wells Hospital and at Maidstone Hospital. The new Consultant will have responsibilities for participating in and developing a Trust-wide service. The post will involve sessions at both Hospitals.

Main duties of the job

There are approximately 190,000 attendances at the two Emergency Departments across the two sites. We have 16.5 whole time equivalent Consultants providing shop floor cover five days a week at both sites from 8am to 10pm, and for 9 hours per day at weekends, with 24/7 on-call cover cross-site.

The Tunbridge Wells department has a 6-bed resus area, 14 Majors cubicles, an active UTC, and a 7 chaired CDU area. Furthermore, we have just opened a new Paediatric Emergency Department. A 39 bed Medical Assessment Unit is on site which opened in 2016, led by Acute Physicians, with Ambulatory Care facilities.

At Maidstone there is a highly successful Urgent Medical and Ambulatory Unit, run by Acute Physicians, which opened in late 2012. This comprises 8 ambulatory trolleys, taking direct Medical referrals, together with 14 short stay medical beds.

On-call, the post holder will need to reside within ten miles or thirty minutes of one of the hospitals.

About us

The Trust provides acute hospital services to a population of over 460,000 in West Kent and North East Sussex, and some specialist services to a considerably larger population. Its major hospitals are the Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury, and the Maidstone Hospital.

Tunbridge Wells Hospital opened in September 2011. This 512 bed acute hospital is the first NHS hospital in which all wards are composed entirely of single side rooms. The new facilities include a state-of-the-art Emergency Department, where we see around 100,000 new patients annually. The hospital has a full range of diagnostic services, and provides all acute medical, surgical, orthopaedic, and women's and children's specialties. Tunbridge Wells Hospital was successfully appointed a Regional Trauma Unit in 2012, and includes all trauma, surgical and Critical Care back-up services.

Maidstone Hospital is a modern 410 bed district general hospital. It provides general hospital services to a catchment population of around 220,000. The Emergency Department sees around 90,000 attendances a year.

Job description

Job responsibilities

  1. To provide a high standard of care to patients for whom you have clinical responsibility. This will include any patients referred to you and cared for by you personally or by members of your team.
  1. To participate in clinical and other service activities and developments, with the aim of ensuring a high standard of patient care across the Trust.
  1. To work in close co-operation with other medical, professional and managerial colleagues, both within and outside the specialty, to provide high quality health care to the Trusts patients.
  1. To participate fully in and share leadership of the clinical governance of the specialty covering its Trust-wide activities. To attend and participate in clinical governance work and meetings as detailed in the Trusts Guide to Job Planning.
  1. To participate actively in the Directorate Audit programme, sharing co-ordination of audit activities within the department and implementation of change.
  1. To take an active responsibility for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, training and supervision.
  1. To assume responsibility, both personally and corporately with consultant colleagues, for the management of junior medical staff. You are expected to be involved in their professional development, both clinical and personal as per guidance from HEE and HEKSS.
  1. To ensure that all doctors in training for whom you have supervisory responsibilities undertake delegated clinical tasks that are within their level of competence and knowledge.
  1. To ensure at all times that you comply with the General Medical Councils published guide Good Medical Practice, including The Duties of a Doctor.
  1. To take personal responsibility for risk management in your work and undertake to review practice and learn from mistakes.
  1. To share in the on-call rota, and to provide prospective cover for colleagues during annual and study leave and other absences as far as is practicable and clinically safe.
  1. To ensure that you respond promptly and efficiently to all complaints related to any patient care you or your staff have been involved with, assisting the Trusts responsibility to reply to complaints within a specified time frame.
  1. To ensure that you develop and maintain effective working relations with those agencies concerned with the provision of health and social care services and those representing the interests of patients.
  1. To undertake an annual appraisal leading to a personal development plan as outlined in the Trust Appraisal Policy. You must collect and maintain sufficient evidence to support the appraisal process and your GMC revalidation. The appraisal will inform the study leave and job planning processes.
  1. To undertake an annual job plan review as outlined in the Trust Guide to Job Planning.
  1. You are required to take reasonable care for the health and safety of yourself and others who may be affected by what you do while at work. You must adhere to Trust IRMER Regulations.
  1. Involvement in the development of clinical management protocols shared with the community and other consultant colleagues.
  1. Participation on the management and future development of the Emergency Medicine service.


Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • MB BS (or equivalent)
  • Registered with GMC
  • FRCEM
  • ATLS, ALS, APLS
Desirable

  • Distinctions, scholarships, prizes
  • Other degrees, e.g. BSc, MSc, MD
  • At least three years in Higher Training in Emergency Medicine in the UK
  • Instructor status in ATLS, APLS and/or ALS
  • On GMC Specialist Register or within 6 months of CCT date o
Audit

Essential

  • oUnderstand the principles of audit
Desirable

  • oEvidence of participation in audit projects
Research

Essential

  • oAn understanding of general principles, scientific method and interpretation of literature
Desirable

  • oEvidence of personal research projects and their presentation
  • oPublications in peer-reviewed journals


Employer details

Employer name

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

Address

Cross site

Maidstone Hospital

Maidstone

ME16 9QQ



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