Locum Consultant for Emergency Medicine

This is a newly created fixed term locum post to join the Emergency Medicine team at Bedford Hospital. This post is to improve resilience of the consultant rota, to enable more sustainable cover of the Emergency Department (ED) 16 hours per day, 7 days a week with out of hours non-resident cover.

The post holder will join the current Emergency Medicine consultant team and wider ED multidisciplinary team to deliver urgent and emergency care to the local population. You must be dedicated to providing high quality emergency care, maintaining clinical standards, and continually looking to drive positive change by developing the service.

The Bedford ED is proud to be the top performing hospital in the East of England region for ambulance handovers, and has seen a significant improvement in 4 and 12 hour performance in the past 12-18 months as a result of the hard work and commitment of the team and a number of improvements delivered as part of the urgent and emergency care recovery board.

This is a fixed term position for 12 months.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will work closely with the existing Consultants in providing the full range of services, including diagnosis, investigations and treatment of patients. The consultant will have a continuing responsibility for the care of patients in their charge, ensuring safe handover as appropriate. They will provide a prompt opinion on request from consultant colleagues in other specialties and assume direct clinical role within the Department with other senior medical staff. There is also opportunity to participate in the call before you convey (CBYC) rota as part of the job plan.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Medical Degree
• Relevant postgraduate qualification MB BS, FRCEM or equivalents

Desirable

• MD or equivalent Higher Degree or evidence of relevant research

Registration

Essential

• Full GMC Registration (GMC Licence to Practice is mandatory before employment commences)
• oEntry onto the GMC Specialist Register: ?CCT (or within 6 months of receipt of CCT at time of interview) ?CESR - portfolio pathway (must be on Specialist Register at time of applying)

Clinical Experience, Governance and Effectiveness

Essential

• Excellent all round experience of DGH work
• Able to take full and independent responsibility for clinical work and delivering service without direct supervision.
• Understanding of clinical governance and ability to demonstrate ongoing CPD
• Participation in relevant local audits
• Able to demonstrate a broad understanding of the principles and elements of clinical governance.

Desirable

• Participation in relevant national audits

Teaching

Essential

• Knowledge and ability to teach all grades of trainees and medical students

Desirable

• Has attended Teaching the Teachers or similar course

About the employer

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.

Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job