Consultant in Emergency Medicine Adult and

**Job overview**:
CONSULTANT POST IN EMERGENCY MEDICINE, 50% Adult, 50% Paediatric

NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST

We have exciting opportunities for an Emergency Physician looking to work in both Adult and Paediatric Emergency Departments in one of the largest single-site Major Trauma Centres in the UK.

The Emergency Department has an attendance of 195,000 new patients each year, including 45,000 children, seen in a co-located Paediatric Emergency Department. The department has a large academic and clinical skills area and has a strong education and research ethos.

**Main duties of the job**:
You will join a friendly and dedicated team of 27 Consultants working on a flexible annualised rostering system. You will be forward thinking and willing to work in a team as a role model and clinical leader alongside our multi-disciplinary workforce. Your experience, skills and knowledge will be used to think creatively, support others to develop to the best they can be and to be part of the vision to be a world-class centre of excellence.

**Working for our organisation**:
The Adult ED has recently undergone an estates upgrade creating capacity for a 30 cubicle Majors Unit, and an Urgent Treatment Unit staffed by primary care and EM clinicians. The Paediatric Emergency Department has 8 cubicles and a further 5 examination rooms. There is a joint adult and paediatric resus room.

We work closely with all our speciality teams to facilitate early access to appropriate care pathways.

Our Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) Service is recognised as one of the best in the country.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
If you are a motivated emergency physician, this is the post for you. Appropriate qualifications and experience are outlined in the job description and person specification.

**Person specification**:
**Professional Registration**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Full registration with the GMC
- CCT in Emergency Medicine or CCT in Emergency Medicine with PEM sub-speciality training
- MRCPCH, FCEM or Equivalent

**Desirable criteria**:

- Higher management degree or qualification or training

**Clinical Skills/Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Minimum 5 years post graduate experience
- ATLS, ALS, APLS (or equivalent)
- Evidence of participation in Clinical audit / research
- Able to teach and support junior staff effectively.

**Desirable criteria**:

- Formal Teaching Qualification
- Member National Paediatric research group
- Original research publications
- Have been involved with national PEM projects

**Communication and Relationship skills**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Able to communicate with adults and children of all ages
- Effective Team leader in Paediatric Emergency Medicine situations

**Management Skills**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Able to develop, present and operationalise coherent ideas for service development/delivery.
- Able to delegate appropriately.
- Works independently as well as in a team

**Teaching, Audit & Research**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Evidence of participation in Clinical audit / research
- Able to teach and support junior staff effectively

Bring your whole self to work for us at NUH. We love diversity and we value your difference, your unique skills, knowledge and experience. Becoming one of our people may realise your potential, helping us to raise our performance in delivering world class healthcare to the diverse patient populations we serve.

**Salary**: The quoted salary will be on a pro rata basis for part time workers.

Disability Confidence: All applicants who have declared a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted.

At Risk of redundancy: NHS employees within the East Midlands who are ‘at risk’ of redundancy will be given a preferential interview where they meet the essential criteria of the person specification.

ID and Right to work checks: NUH authenticate all ID and right to work documentation such as passports, visa’s and driving license through a system called Trust ID. NUH will scan your ID and right to work documentation in to the Trust ID system at your face to face ID appointment. The system will run a check against the key security features within your documentation. The system will provide us with an outcome of your check which will be stored securely on your personal file along with all other pre-employment check documentation.

Consent:

- Transfer of information: If I have previous NHS service - I consent to the transfer of my Electronic Staff Record (ESR) data between this and other NHS Trusts. I also consent to the **Occupational Health Department **confidentially accessing my occupational health records from my current or previous employer in order to check the status of my vaccinations, immunisations s and screening tests as relevant to the post. I understand this is an automated process and the information will only be used for these purposes prior to me taki