Consultant - Emergency Medicine

Job summary

Teaching duties will include medical students, sessions for the FY2s and middle grade teaching, including preparation for MRCEM and FRCEM.

The post holder will be required to participate in the Trust and Directorate's Clinical Governance activities, with a commitment to audit, annual appraisal for themselves, revalidation and CPD, and regular appraisal and mentoring of other team members.

It is expected that the post holder will engage in specific management tasks and contribute to monthly departmental meetings (sub-directorate and Clinical Effectiveness) and hospital committees in agreement with the Service Lead and the Directorate Policy Board.

The post holder is expected to participate in the annual appraisal system in line with the Trust's appraisal guidelines. Individual appraisal interviews will be held annually and reports, (including updated job plans) submitted to the Medical Director or HR Director. The postholder is expected to inform themselves of the annual timetable appraisal and ensure that appropriate time is set aside to update their portfolio.

Main duties of the job

The full-time hours of work for a consultant post are 10 programmed activities. Any additional PA's worked are by agreement with the Service Lead, Clinical Director, General Manager and, ultimately, the Trust's Medical Director working to the Chief Executive of the Trust. Any PA's above 10 will be reviewed on an annual basis.

About us

Our priorities

1. Deliver high-quality patient-centred care

Patients, their friends, family and carers will be treated with unfailing kindness and respect by every member of staff in every department and their experience and quality of care will be second to none.

2. Be the employer of choice

We will provide every member of staff with the support, information, facilities and environment they need to develop in their roles and careers. We will recruit and retain people we need to deliver high-quality services to our patients and other service users.

3. Deliver better care at lower cost

We will look to continuously improve the quality of care and patient experience through the most efficient use of available resources.