Locum Consultant in Emergency Medicine
The closing date is 28 October 2025.
We are delighted to be able to offer an exciting opportunity to join our team of Emergency Medicine consultants for a 9 month fixed term post, available from January 2026.
The successful candidate will be part of a forward-thinking and high performing department and a regional Adult and Paediatric Major Trauma Centre. As a department we strive to keep our patients at the centre of all we do whilst providing the safest and highest quality healthcare possible. The Great North Trauma and Emergency Centre at the Royal Victoria Infirmary lies within a purpose-built trauma block and is situated in the heart of Newcastle city centre. The successful candidate will contribute to a consultant rota involving a mixture of 27 full and part time consultants providing extensive senior cover with 24/7 resident on call.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidates will contribute to a consultant rota providing senior cover with 24/7 resident on call and will be part of the team delivering world-class care in the Great North Trauma and Emergency Centre situated in Newcastle\'s Royal Victoria Infirmary.
About us
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
* Freeman Hospital
* Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
* Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
* Newcastle Dental Hospital
* Newcastle Fertility Centre
* Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
* Northern Genetics Service
* Cramlington Manor Walks
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under "Documents to download" or "Supporting documents".
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Job responsibilities
Clinical:
You will be actively involved in shop floor care in the Emergency Department, particularly in the management of complex and resuscitation cases.
You will work numerous clinical shifts, including Doctor in Charge, resuscitation, paediatric ED, Rapid Assessment & Treatment, and Clinical Decision Unit.
You will be part of the resident on-call rota commitments/pro rota
You will supervise and teach Middle Grade and junior medical staff, as well as ACPs and nurse practitioners. There is also a significant commitment to undergraduate medical student teaching. Over 200 medical students pass through the department every year.
Other clinical commitments include the care of in-patients on the Major Trauma Ward
The department is a designated Regional Adult & Paediatric Major Trauma Centre.
You will undergo continuing medical education (CME) in accordance with guidelines stipulated by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine.
It is a condition of employment that in so far as is reasonably practicable, all employees must minimise the risk of infection to themselves, colleagues, patients, relatives and visitors and, in so doing, must:
Be familiar with, and adhere to Trust policies and guidance on infection prevention and control;
Attend Trust Induction Programme(s) and statutory education programmes in infection prevention and control;
Include infection prevention and control as an integral part of your continuous personal/professional development;
Take personal responsibility so far as is reasonably practicable, in helping ensure that effective prevention and control of health care acquired infections is embedded into everyday practice and applied consistently by you and your colleagues.
Person Specification
Education, Qualifications and Specialist Skills
* Primary Medical Qualification.
* Full GMC Registration.
* Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register (within 6 months from the date of the AAC).
* FRCEM or equivalent
* Higher Degree.
* Special skills training in the specialty.
Clinical Experience
* Evidence of experience in the EM.
* Evidence of a substantial commitment to the specialty.
* Ability to offer an expert clinical opinion within the speciality.
* Ability to take independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients referred to a tertiary centre.
* Has undertaken ALS, ATLS/ETC, and APLS and has in date certification.
* Experience of working in a Major Trauma Centre at consultant level
* Life support instructor.
* MIMMS course.
Management and Administration Experience
* Involvement with management and project leadership within the specialty.
* Evidence of involvement in authoring or reviewing clinical guidelines.
* An understanding of Clinical Governance.
* Proven management and administrative experience and understanding of management goals.
* Evidence of leadership / project management.
* Evidence of having implemented change.
* Experience in developing and implementing new technologies.
Teaching
* Experience of supervising junior medical staff.
* Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.
* Ability to teach clinical / technical / practical skills.
* Attendance at courses to develop teaching skills.
* Postgraduate qualification in medical education.
Research
* Evidence of involvement in and understanding of research methodology and publication of findings.
* Research/critical review of literature.
* Publications in the last five years.
Audit
* Evidence of participation in audit.
* Evidence of having changed practice as a result of audit.
* Evidence of having revisited the audit to assess improvement.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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