Overview
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Locum Consultant in Emergency Medicine
The closing date is 11 October 2025
Location and context
We are looking to appoint a Locum Consultant in Emergency Medicine at University Hospitals Dorset with the opportunity to apply for a substantive post next year. Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch hospitals have recently undergone a merger into UHD, and at present there is an Emergency Department on both the Poole and Bournemouth sites. RBH is the designated site for PCI and stroke thrombolysis, and Poole is the designated Major Trauma Unit as well as having acute Orthopaedics and Paediatrics. A new state of the art department has been built which RBH moved into this year. Critical Care and Maternity are now located in the same building and Poole ED will move across to the RBH site next summer along with Paediatrics.
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
About us
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Full registration with GMC
* MBBS or equivalent FCEM or equivalent ATLS, APLS, ALS
* Higher Medical Degree
* Dual Accreditation
* Instructor status in ATLS, APLS or ALS
* MIMMS or equivalent
Experience
* General training in Emergency Medicine at the level of a senior clinical decision maker
* Experience in assessing and managing both adults and children with severe life-threatening illness or injury
* Experience in Paediatric Emergency Medicine
* Level 1 Ultrasound Trainer
* Management of Inpatients with Head Injuries
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.
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
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