Consultant in Emergency Medicine

Appointees will join a welcoming, friendly and forward thinking workforce of 33consultants, 40 Tier 4 middle grades (HST trainees, CESR doctors and SAS doctors), 670Junior doctors of varying grades, 48 Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACPs), 21 Emergency Nurse Practitioners (ENPs) /Urgent Care Practitioners, 200 nurses, 3 pharmacists, 2 Physician Associates and 115 Clinical Support Workers and Emergency Department Assistants. The Emergency Department includes a 9-bayed Resuscitation Area and a Majors Area with 30 monitored bays. We also have an Injury Team, an Ambulatory Majors area, and a co-located UTC and a 7-day SDEC managed and operated by a SDEC team separate to ED. NUH is the Major Trauma Centre for the biggest Trauma Network in the UK. NUH Emergency Department is the front door for the East Midlands Major Trauma Centre, accepting patients from a large area and last year saw over 1800 major trauma patients plus less severely injured patients. It is a single unit and, as such, one of the largest Trauma Centres in the UK. You will be expected to lead the trauma team within the resuscitation room and take part in major trauma audits and training opportunities. NUH has all the relevant specialties and critical care capacity to maintain its Major Trauma Centre standing The Department has undergone major transformation of its leadership and governance framework to develop a distributed leadership model and structures and processes, fit forpurpose for a modern ED. We work closely with specialties in Specialty Interface Collaboratives (SICs), facilitating processes, governance and education/research acrosspatient pathways. You will join an annualised self-rostering system, designed to provide flexibility and support work-life balance. We are currently reviewing rotas across the multi-professional workforce to ensure non clinical commitments; including quality improvement and education are proactively planned. Upon commencement of the substantive post, you will start on an 8 DCC, 2 SpA split, We offer 2 core SPA for the first 12 months of post to allow new consultants to settle into the role. After 12 months, core SPA will reduce to 1.5 sessions and there is the possibility to undertake additional SPA according to the needs of the department and your specialist interests. The successful candidate will be responsible for adult emergency patients attending NUH ED under their care. The shop-floor roster currently encompasses these distinct roles: Consultant in charge of the entire department based mainly in ED Majors Unit Resus Room consultant Ambulatory Majors consultant Supervision consultant There are protected daily consultant supervision sessions to support education of emergency medicine trainees and other learners in the clinical arena. All consultants are expected to take an active role in clinical governance activities including (but not restricted to) clinical audit, incident reporting, review of complaints, risk management, CPD, Quality Improvement and Evidence-Based Practice. The ED has Consultant Clinical Governance and Quality Improvement leads who work closely with the Clinical and Audit leads. The Area Teams and Specialty Interface Collaboratives oversee governance relevant to their areas of responsibility and liaise with the Governance lead. As well as audits responsive to local need and clinical incidents, RCEM audits are also undertaken, allowing national benchmarking. Applicants wishing to work part time will be considered and modification of the job plan discussed with the ED Management Team. Please refer to the job description and person specification attached to the advert for the full details of the vacancy. Job description Job responsibilities Appointees will join a welcoming, friendly and forward thinking workforce of 33consultants, 40 Tier 4 middle grades (HST trainees, CESR doctors and SAS doctors), 670Junior doctors of varying grades, 48 Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACPs), 21 Emergency Nurse Practitioners (ENPs) /Urgent Care Practitioners, 200 nurses, 3 pharmacists, 2 Physician Associates and 115 Clinical Support Workers and Emergency Department Assistants. The Emergency Department includes a 9-bayed Resuscitation Area and a Majors Area with 30 monitored bays. We also have an Injury Team, an Ambulatory Majors area, and a co-located UTC and a 7-day SDEC managed and operated by a SDEC team separate to ED. NUH is the Major Trauma Centre for the biggest Trauma Network in the UK. NUH Emergency Department is the front door for the East Midlands Major Trauma Centre, accepting patients from a large area and last year saw over 1800 major trauma patients plus less severely injured patients. It is a single unit and, as such, one of the largest Trauma Centres in the UK. You will be expected to lead the trauma team within the resuscitation room and take part in major trauma audits and training opportunities. NUH has all the relevant specialties and critical care capacity to maintain its Major Trauma Centre standing The Department has undergone major transformation of its leadership and governance framework to develop a distributed leadership model and structures and processes, fit forpurpose for a modern ED. We work closely with specialties in Specialty Interface Collaboratives (SICs), facilitating processes, governance and education/research acrosspatient pathways. You will join an annualised self-rostering system, designed to provide flexibility and support work-life balance. We are currently reviewing rotas across the multi-professional workforce to ensure non clinical commitments; including quality improvement and education are proactively planned. Upon commencement of the substantive post, you will start on an 8 DCC, 2 SpA split, We offer 2 core SPA for the first 12 months of post to allow new consultants to settle into the role. After 12 months, core SPA will reduce to 1.5 sessions and there is the possibility to undertake additional SPA according to the needs of the department and your specialist interests. The successful candidate will be responsible for adult emergency patients attending NUH ED under their care. The shop-floor roster currently encompasses these distinct roles: Consultant in charge of the entire department based mainly in ED Majors Unit Resus Room consultant Ambulatory Majors consultant Supervision consultant There are protected daily consultant supervision sessions to support education of emergency medicine trainees and other learners in the clinical arena. All consultants are expected to take an active role in clinical governance activities including (but not restricted to) clinical audit, incident reporting, review of complaints, risk management, CPD, Quality Improvement and Evidence-Based Practice. The ED has Consultant Clinical Governance and Quality Improvement leads who work closely with the Clinical and Audit leads. The Area Teams and Specialty Interface Collaboratives oversee governance relevant to their areas of responsibility and liaise with the Governance lead. As well as audits responsive to local need and clinical incidents, RCEM audits are also undertaken, allowing national benchmarking. Applicants wishing to work part time will be considered and modification of the job plan discussed with the ED Management Team. Please refer to the job description and person specification attached to the advert for the full details of the vacancy.