Locum Consultant in Emergency MedicineNHS

Job summary

Join us and help make a real difference to our Trust.

Here's more about the role and what we're looking for:

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a locum Consultant in Emergency Medicine to join our friendly, enthusiastic Emergency Department team at University Hospitals Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust (UHDB), based at the Royal Derby Hospital site. This is a 12 month fixed term opportunity to cover maternity leave, until December 2027.

The RDH Emergency Department currently operates over three areas - Resus and Majors Adult ED, Ambulatory Adult ED and a Urgent Treatment Centre to provide excellent care for the patients in our community.

Main duties of the job

• Responsible for the care & treatment of patients in your charge & personal performance of clinical duties as agreed in your job plan, allowing for all proper delegation to, & training of your staff.
• Responsible for maintaining awareness of professional guidelines & acting in accordance with them.
• Responsible for the professional supervision, training & management of junior medical staff, carrying out teaching, examination & accreditation duties as required & contributing to postgraduate & continuing medical education activity locally, regionally & nationally as appropriate.
• Provision of an out of hours' service with your Consultant colleagues including on-call rota commitments, as indicated in the enclosed job plan.
• More details regarding these points are included in the JD provided.

Job description

• Maintenance of the highest clinical standard in the management of patients presenting to the emergency department.
• to work with the ED paediatric lead consultant and other colleagues to provide quality care and cover for paediatric patients in the children's ED.
• to share with colleagues responsibility for the day to day management of the ED as well as service development and speciality interfacing

More details regarding these points are included in the JD provided.

About us

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In return we will offer:

o Development opportunities, including both professional and leadership developmento On-going support through every step of the way from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.o A variety of other staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts about our Trust:

o We see on average 4810 OP appointments per day.o We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.o An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.o Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.o Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.o We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.o We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.