Job summary
- Main area
- Emergency Medicine
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 275-1224SPECED
- Employer
- Medway NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Medway Maritime Hospital
- Town
- Gillingham, Kent
- Salary
- £59,175 - £95,400 per annum/pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialty Doctor Emergency Medicine
NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor
Job overview
Speciality Doctor in Emergency Medicine
Division: Medicine and Emergency Care
Care Group: Emergency and Acute
Band: Speciality Doctor
Salary: £59,175 - £95,400 per annum/pro rata
We are recruiting for a Speciality Doctor in Emergency Medicine who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will provide a high quality “shop floor” clinical presence, together with high standards of education, training, research and audit.
The post holder will work in close co-operation with nursing, managerial and medical colleagues to provide high quality healthcare to the Trust’s patients.
Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
Working for our organisation
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment. Our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
All staff at Medway comply the Trust’s and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board’s policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To see patients attending the Emergency Department, making primary diagnosis and initiating emergency treatment. This will be at middle-grade level (Senior Decision-Maker) within the department.
Clinical leadership in the delivery of high quality emergency care.
Assessment, care and treatment of patients presenting to the ED.
A role in maintaining the four hour target for emergency access.
Ensuring the appropriate referral of patients to inpatient specialties or tertiary centres.
Liaison with clinicians and managers within and outside of the ED to address issues arising that affect the service.
Teaching and training at undergraduate and postgraduate level, including assessments.
Audit, research and quality assurance processes.
Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
- MBBS or equivalent
- FRCS, MRCS or equivalent qualification
- Full registration with the General Medical Council and a valid licence to practise with the General Medical Council
Experience
Essential criteria
- Four years post Full Registration with at least six months in Emergency Medicine
- Experience of teaching doctors-in training and undergraduates
- Experience of clinical audit
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Broadly based Medical, Surgical & EM experience
- Knowledge and experience of communicating bad news
- Knowledge and participation in CPD
Values Based Question
Essential criteria
- How do you demonstrate respect and dignity?
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Victor Anota
- Job title
- Consultant Lead - Emergency Medicine
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01634 830000
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