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Job Overview
We are seeking an enthusiastic and committed Specialty Doctor to join our dynamic Emergency Department team at Wexham Park Hospital. This is a full-time position working on a full shift rota, covering all areas of the department, including Resus, Majors, Minors and Paediatric ED.
Job Overview
We are seeking an enthusiastic and committed Specialty Doctor to join our dynamic Emergency Department team at Wexham Park Hospital. This is a full-time position working on a full shift rota, covering all areas of the department, including Resus, Majors, Minors and Paediatric ED.
Our Emergency Department serves a highly diverse population, offering excellent exposure to a broad range of clinical presentations and pathologies. The postholder will play a vital role in the initial assessment, emergency management and resuscitation of acutely unwell patients, including the performance of emergency procedures and investigations.
As a Specialty Doctor, you will contribute to the safe and effective running of the department, including leading the ED overnight, working closely with the Nurse-in-Charge, and providing supervision and support for junior medical staff.
For full details of the role, please refer to the job description and person specification.
Main duties of the job
Clinical duties will involve daytime, evening and night shifts providing clinical care in the Resus, Majors, Minors and Paediatric ED. Wexham Park Hospital has a very diverse population, and we see a wide range of clinical pathology.
As a Specialty Doctor you will be involved in the initial assessment and resuscitation of sick patients including emergency procedures and investigations. Overnight you will be expected to lead the department, working closely with the Nurse-in-charge and providing support for more junior doctors.
Working for our organisation
Wexham Park is a busy Emergency Department seeing approximately 125,000 patients a year, of whom over 25% are children. We are a designated Trauma Unit within the Thames Valley Trauma Network.
The Trust was rated ‘Outstanding’ for urgent and emergency services in the last CQC inspection. In 2019 we moved into a new £50 million Emergency Assessment Centre purpose-built building for emergency and urgent care. The ED is based on the ground floor and has 8 resuscitation cubicles, 10 initial assessment cubicles, 30 majors cubicles and a dedicated area for minor injury patients.
The integrated paediatric ED has 10 cubicles and its own separate waiting room. Radiology is situated centrally in the department with 2 plain-film rooms and there is a CT scanner adjacent to the resuscitation room. Ultrasound facilities are also available in addition to POCUS machines within ED itself.
There are currently 16 (13.8 WTE) EM consultants at Wexham Park with a wide range of specialist interests, including dual accreditation in ITU, and PEM and PHEM sub-speciality training. They provide on site consultant cover between 0800-2245 seven days a week.
Trainee doctors from HEE Thames Valley rotate through the department including F2, ACCS, GP trainees and higher specialty trainees (HSTs) in Emergency Medicine. As part of the Emergency Medicine Directorate at Frimley Health NHS Foundation trust, we have good links with the Emergency Department at Frimley Park Hospital.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Clinical duties will involve daytime, evening and night shifts providing clinical care in the Resus, Majors, Minors and Paediatric ED. Wexham Park Hospital has a very diverse population, and we see a wide range of clinical pathology. As a Specialty Doctor you will be involved in the initial assessment and resuscitation of sick patients including emergency procedures and investigations. Overnight you will be expected to lead the department, working closely with the Nurse-in-charge and providing support for more junior doctors.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* GMC Registered
Desirable criteria
* Higher degree
Experience
Essential criteria
* Minimum of five year’s training in emergency medicine
* Two years of NHS experience
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Successful completion of Foundation programme
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
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