Job overview
This is an excellent opportunity to join the Emergency Medicine department at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust. The successful candidate will join a service that prides itself in effective leadership, innovative thinking, and excellent teamwork. We strive to challenge our existing working practices and to constantly improve our service to deliver best practice guidance and to ensure that our patient outcomes are successful, and they feel valued during their visits to the Trust.
The successful applicant will join our Emergency Department as a Locum Consultant fixed term for 12 months. Based at Lister Hospital in Stevenage the post comprises of 10 programmed activities (PAs) plus 1.5 indicative additional programmed activities (APAs) including on-call commitment, which could be modified for a candidate preferring to work 10 PAs or less than full time. This is an opportunity to join the enthusiastic, dynamically progressing, and forward-thinking modern Emergency Medicine team. The department has new attendances more than 100,000 patients per annum. There is a separate dedicated Children’s Emergency Department (CED) open 24-hours. The hospital also receives patients from the Hertfordshire Air Ambulance service and is a local trauma unit for the major trauma centre at Addenbrookes. The department has 24-hour middle grade cover with dedicated middle grades for CED 24/7.
Main duties of the job
To provide a high-quality service to patients referred for treatment and care, liaising as necessary with clinical and associated colleagues in other specialties and disciplines.
· Maintenance of high-quality patient centered care
· Shared responsibility for the day-to-day management of the service and participation in strategic planning
· Teaching and training within the multidisciplinary service
· Active involvement in multidisciplinary team meetings and directorate clinical governance activity
· Active participation in continuing medical education
Working for our organisation
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
* The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
* New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
* Hertford County, Hertford
* Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
In the paragraphs above you have read an overview about the role we would like to offer and general information about main duties of the post holder. Please see attached – job description which describes in full details the duties, responsibilities and reporting relationships of the advertising role.
Person specification
Qualifications / Training
Essential criteria
* Hold a current licence to practice from the General Medical Council.
* Fellowship of Royal College of Emergency (FRCEM) with CCT in PEM or CCT in Acute/General Paediatrics with substantial PEM experience or qualification of an equivalent level.
* Advanced Paediatric Life Support (or European Paediatric Advanced Life Support) and Advanced Trauma Life Support.
Desirable criteria
* Postgraduate degree (or equivalent)
* ATLS/EPALS/APLS instructor status (at least one of these)
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
* Experience of supervising undergraduates, doctors in training and other colleagues
* Broad range of experience in Paediatric Emergency Medicine in particular: • Experience of a wide range of clinical procedures to carry out duties in an emergency. • Experience in day-to-day organisation of Paediatric emergency services
* Can evidence leading on patient safety issues and achieving a change in practice
* Ability to offer and be accountable for full and independent expert diagnostic opinion
Skills
Essential criteria
* Able to evidence engagement with clinical governance and the identification of errors and the learning from errors.
* Evidence engagement with appraisal and revalidation