Associate Specialist in Emergency Medicine

We have been assigned by one of the UK's more prestigious NHS Trusts to help them recruit a Associate Specialist in Emergency Medicine on either a Substantive or an NHS Fixed Term basis for 12 months to join their successful A&E department.

Our clients ED operates on a 24/7 basis and offers emergency care for the entire population of the island. The department receives unrestricted emergency patients at all hours, including children and adults who may be suffering from any conceivable emergency condition. These include medical & surgical patients, trauma of varying severity, children, gynaecological emergencies, mental health problems and minor illness or injury. The primary care doctors refer patients to the inpatient specialty consultants belonging to Medical Specialist Group (MSG) for acute assessment. These patients are assessed in the ED for investigations and relevant treatment. As secondary care is paid for by states, these patients are not charged. The ED service, like all other services of the hospital, is provided entirely by consultants and specialists. There are NO trainee doctors. There are some advanced nurse practitioners in other areas. The first ANP for the ED is currently in training, with plans of more to follow. Both grades of medical staff, consultants and associate specialists, are rostered to provide 24/7 service. The hours between 0800 – 2200 are double manned. The consultant would be expected to provide overnight on call except when on site for night shift. The specialists are expected to share this on-call.

The successful appointee will be asked to fulfil various responsibilities within the department, these include: work with the consultants to provide an effective clinical service of emergency medicine for adults and children who present as unselected emergencies at all hours, undertake ALL relevant procedures needed for any emergency patient, liaise with clinical and nursing staff in comprehensive service delivery, liaise with in patient specialty consultants belonging to MSG for patient management, admission and referral for out-patient consult, provide an on call service and also be available for sickness/absence cover (2nd on call) according to duty roster, help with professional development and education of advanced practitioners and other nursing staff in the ED as relevant, keep own professional development activities and revalidation portfolio complete and compliant with Royal College of Emergency Medicine standards & willingness to participate in the 3:8 on site (including night shifts), sporadic on-call and separate cover duty rota.

Additional Information
- Will consider full time or part time
- 10 P.A's
- Prestigious NHS Trust
- A well supported & friendly team
- Must have GMC Registration
- Outstanding Schools within public and private sectors

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