Consultant in Emergency Medicine

4 months ago

Birmingham, United Kingdom University Hospitals Birmingham Full time

**Job summary**:
**Main duties, tasks & skills required**:
As part of a large team, consultants are able to work flexibly to balance work and home life we also understand the importance of providing support to new consultants and place significant emphasis on wellbeing in a fast paced and demanding environment. The post holder will participate in the on-call rota. When on call, Consultants are only expected to support the emergency department of one hospital site.

**About us**:
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

**Job description**:
The existing Emergency Department Consultants provide high quality "shop floor" clinical presence and take pride in having positive feedback in trainee satisfaction for support and supervision. The team also strive towards providing high standards of education, training, research and audit with projects being recognised in the BMJ Awards.

The post holder will be expected to work as part of the Consultant team and contribute to the development of the department and Emergency Medicine as a speciality. The post holder will work closely with nursing, managerial and medical colleagues to provide high quality healthcare for patients.

Integral to the responsibilities of the post are the following requirements:

- Provision of a first-class clinical service for patients.
- Development and Championship of the speciality of Emergency Medicine.
- Provision of leadership to all staff.
- Participation in teaching, research, audit and governance programmes within the Directorate.
- Appetite for professional self-development and innovation
- Pro-active engagement in the development of Emergency services.
- Excellent communication skills and self-awareness.
- Emotional resilience.

1.SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE POST:
Clinical
- The post holder will be expected to share responsibility for the delivery of high-quality care to the patients presenting to the Emergency Department
- To examine and treat patients in the Emergency Department
- To manage patients admitted to the Clinical Decision Unit (this was temporarily closed during Covid and post Covid years but with plans to be re-opened) and perform ward rounds and other supporting work as required
- To support the clinical decision making of all medical and nursing clinicians within the Department
- To attend the Department out of hours as per the agreed job plan.
- To remain contactable and available when on call
- To support the Department if required to do so in the event of a Mass Casualty incident

Service Development

Looking ahead and mapping the future path of Emergency care is considered to be highly important within our team. Alongside challenge comes opportunity. Our team recognises that there is a need to constantly develop patient care and rise to the challenges faced by the NHS as a whole. Our team have developed rapid assessment and treatment processes, a CDU pathway and a GP in ED service. The post holder will:

- Be responsible for clinical service development as agreed with the Clinical Service Lead

Teaching/Training (as agreed with Clinical Service Lead)

The Emergency Departments at Heartlands and Good Hope were innovators in developing extended nursing roles in the UK and have a well-developed contingent of Emergency Nurse Practitioners and Advanced Clinical Practitioners. These staff see, treat, refer and discharge patients across all clinical areas. The Emergency Departments also participate in the education and training of 5th year medical students from the University of Birmingham and Aston University, who are placed in the Departments and participate in the structured teaching prog

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