Consultant in Emergency Medicine

The post holder will be expected to share responsibility for the delivery of high-quality care to the patients presenting to the ED and the following: * To have oversight of all team activity during their clinical session and provide support to other team members as needed. * Demonstrate excellence in patient care. * To provide appropriate supervision to doctors in training, locally employed doctors and other clinical practitioners. * Administrative duties related to patient care. * Contribution to undergraduate, post-graduate and continuing medical education activity, including AHPs as part of the multidisciplinary team. * Regular participation in departmental meetings. * Consultants are encouraged and supported with research audit and QI projects. * Appropriate evening and weekend on-call commitments. * To examine and treat patients in the ED. * To support the clinical decision making of all medical and nursing clinicians within the Department. * To provide on call support out of hours as agreed in the job plan. * To attend the Department out of hours as per the agreed job plan. * To remain contactable and available when on call. * Provide consultant leadership for trauma calls and the management of critically ill/injured patients in QEHB role as Major Trauma Centre. * Participate in the Trust Major Incident and Mass Casualty arrangements, including attendance during declared incidents and participation in training/simulation exercises. Job description Job responsibilities The post holder will be expected to share responsibility for the delivery of high-quality care to the patients presenting to the ED and the following: * To have oversight of all team activity during their clinical session and provide support to other team members as needed. * Demonstrate excellence in patient care. * To provide appropriate supervision to doctors in training, locally employed doctors and other clinical practitioners. * Administrative duties related to patient care. * Contribution to undergraduate, post-graduate and continuing medical education activity, including AHPs as part of the multidisciplinary team. * Regular participation in departmental meetings. * Consultants are encouraged and supported with research audit and QI projects. * Appropriate evening and weekend on-call commitments. * To examine and treat patients in the ED. * To support the clinical decision making of all medical and nursing clinicians within the Department. * To provide on call support out of hours as agreed in the job plan. * To attend the Department out of hours as per the agreed job plan. * To remain contactable and available when on call. * Provide consultant leadership for trauma calls and the management of critically ill/injured patients in QEHB role as Major Trauma Centre. * Participate in the Trust Major Incident and Mass Casualty arrangements, including attendance during declared incidents and participation in training/simulation exercises.