Job Description
Applications are invited for the posts of Consultants in Emergency Medicine and Paediatric Emergency Medicine to join our Team of 16 highly dedicated consultants.
Newham University Hospital is an east London hospital seeing over 90,000 emergency patients per year. We are a Trauma Unit with strong links with Royal London Hospital, also part of Barts Health and the Major Trauma Centre. We serve the largest borough in Barts Health, with a very young and diverse population, with a varied and interesting mix of emergency conditions.
We believe a consultant led and delivered service is key to excellence in emergency care. The successful candidate will work across all areas of the department, including our co-located Adult and Paediatric Clinical Decision Units, and Same Day Emergency Care Units (managed jointly with Acute Medicine).
Main duties of the job
We are keen to ensure all our consultants are supported to develop, learn and maintain sub-specialty interests. We believe in professional well-being and supporting sustainable work-life balance. Benefits of joining the team at Newham include:
- Enhanced study-leave opportunities to ensure consultants have the skills and professional development needed to deliver high quality care.
- Leadership development - Barts Health run an outstanding leadership development programme in partnership with the Kings Fund. We are keen to encourage new and existing leaders, with opportunities to apply for leadership roles both within emergency medicine and the wider trust.
- Service and quality improvement - we are keen to support additional time within job plans (for example, 3 SPA: 7 DCC) to focus on key service and quality improvement projects.
- Education and training - the team are committed to delivering high quality education and training, covering students, junior doctors and ACPs. Educational roles may be applied for within the trust and within job planning (such as Ultrasound Training) for interested applicants
Clinical interests and portfolio careers - we are keen to recruit applicants with a sub-specialty interest in paediatric emergency medicine. We have a separate paediatric emergency department and paediatric clinical decision unit.
About us
Our group of hospitals provide a huge range of clinical services to people in east London and beyond.
We operate from four major hospital sites (The Royal London, St Bartholomew's, Whipps Cross and Newham) and a number of community locations, including Mile End hospital. Around 2.5 million people living in east London look to our services to provide them with the healthcare they need.
As well as district general hospital facilities for three London boroughs, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest and Newham, we have the largest cardiovascular centre in the UK, the second largest cancer centre in London, an internationally-renowned trauma team, and the home of the London Air Ambulance. The Royal London also houses one of the largest children's hospitals in the UK, a major dental hospital, and leading stroke and renal units.
We're also proud to be part of UCL Partners, Europe's largest and strongest academic health science partnership. The objective of UCL Partners is to translate cutting edge research and innovation into measurable health gain for patients and populations through partnership across settings and sectors, and through excellence in education.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Emergency Medicine
When on clinical shifts the appointee;
- Will be responsible for the diagnosis and initial treatment and resuscitation of all emergencies.
- Will make arrangements for patients to be referred to the next most appropriate agency or to be discharged home.
- Will be expected to participate actively in direct clinical management as well as overseeing care provided by junior medical and non-medical staff.
- Should monitor the workload and stresses within the department moving staff accordingly and ensuring that breaks are taken. They will work closely with the senior nurse to provide clinical leadership for the department, ensuring that all areas are functioning optimally and providing the highest standard of care for all patients attending the Emergency Department.
- Will also be responsible for patients admitted to the Clinical Decision Unit under the auspices of the Emergency Department. During clinical shifts ward rounds per day will be undertaken to ensure that these patients are either discharged or referred to a speciality team for onward care if admission is likely to exceed 12 hours.
- Will have clinical responsibility for the patients in the above named areas under the care of Emergency Medicine and should ensure that a clear handover is provided to colleagues taking over from them at the end of their shift.
Primary Care
In addition, all Consultants play a key role in actively streaming emergency patients so that patients are treated in the most appropriate environment and by the most appropriate person. This ensures maximal utilisation of partners in the urgent care network i.e. local Walk in Centres, Hospital Avoidance Teams and GP out of hours services. There is a collaborative approach in delivery of emergency care across acute and community settings.
Management
The post holder, shared with other consultants will be expected to;
- Attend the weekly consultant meetings, the monthly Clinical Governance meetings and other relevant Emergency Department meetings.
- Contribute to the recruitment and selection of all clinical staff.
- Contribute to the wider management aspects of the department, which include the future and annual planning process, improving performance against local and national targets and taking on responsibility for an aspect of the service.
- Foster multidisciplinary team working.
- Develop good working relationships with specialist teams, support services and Primary Care colleagues to ensure that patients are encouraged to access care from the most appropriate agency to meet their needs.
- Be involved in the establishment of care pathways for a range of conditions, which may involve specialist teams.
- Be involved in the updating of Standard Operational Policies and departmental clinical policies
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Full GMC Registration
- MB ChB or equivalent
- FCEM or Equivalent ('equivalence' must be confirmed by PMETB/GMC by the date of the Advisory Appointments Committee)
- Entry on the Specialist Register in Emergency Medicine, or that at time of interview the applicant can produce evidence that he/she is within 6 months of CCT date and is expected to achieve CCT
Desirable
- BSc/MSc
- MRCP or equivalent additional higher qualification
- Academic distinction/prizes
Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrably able to manage on-going medical and surgical critical care in the resuscitation room.
- Experience of leading care in a Major Trauma Centre
Desirable
- Experience of Major Incident Planning / Training.
- Experience in Acute Medicine
- Experience of stroke evaluation and thrombolysis
Training
Essential
- Completion of Specialist training in Emergency Medicine or within 6 months of CCT or equivalent
- ALS, ATLS, APLS and MIMMS provider or equivalent
Governance
Essential
- Appropriate experience of clinical audit.
- Understanding of risk as it relates to Emergency medicine.
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