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Job overview

Isle of Wight NHS Trust is looking for Specialty Doctors in Emergency Medicine. Applications are invited from enthusiastic and well-motivated doctors for the Specialty Doctor position in the Accident & Emergency Department to commence as soon as possible. Applicants must have full registration with the GMC and previous experience of working as a Senior House Officer or higher in Accident & Emergency. The doctor must also have a broad experience in General Medicine and Surgery.

The department is staffed by 3 Consultants, 6 x Specialty Doctors (including this post), 3 x Associate Specialists, 6 x Specialists, 3 x ST1, 5 x FY2 and 2 x Trust SHO. There is dedicated shop floor Consultant Supervision 12 hours each day Monday to Friday and eight hours per day at weekends. The department currently sees around 48,000 patients a year increasing during the summer months.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Main duties of the job

Take part in the middle tier rota, covering 24 hours, seven days a week. 

Undertake professional development and participate in audit, ensuring all clinical governance areas are met. 

Be active participant in regular clinical audit, including some coordination of audit.

Comply with General Medical Council’s ‘Maintaining good medical practice’.

Undertake annual appraisal for revalidation purposes which will include confirmation of  continuing professional development via RCEM validation / recording.

Substituting in an emergency for absent or ill colleagues and undertaking in exceptional circumstances irregular commitments outside normally rostered duties.

Professional supervision and management of junior medical staff

Candidates must be ATLS, ALS and APLS/PALS certified. FRCS, MRCP, MCEM, MRCS or MRCGP is desirable though not essential.

Working for our organisation

The Isle of Wight Trust and Solent NHS Trust recognise that organisations are stronger when they work together. Mental Health and Learning Disability services across both organisations have established a strategic partnership underpinned by a Memorandum of Understanding. In the first year, the partnership focussed on development of a clinical strategy for MH&LD services in the IOW, and the focus is now on implementation of that strategy and delivering a comprehensive programme of transformation that touches all aspects of MH&LD services on the IOW.

The Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS trust are working to develop and have formed a formal partnership. 

The Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS trust are working to develop and have formed a formal partnership.  As part of this development, it is envisaged that rotational job opportunities will become available in the near future, further enhancing leadership and other areas of career development.

There are close links with both Portsmouth and Southampton Universities and successful applicants are encouraged to involve themselves with all aspects of undergraduate and post-graduate medical training. Honorary Senior Lectureships are available and encouraged.