Consultant in ED with an interest in Paediatric Emergency Medicine
Posted 4 hours 11 minutes ago by NHS
Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an enthusiastic and experienced Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine to join our forward-thinking Emergency Department. This is a substantive consultant post with flexibility for full-time or part-time working.
This role offers a genuine opportunity to shape and lead Paediatric Emergency Medicine within a busy, well-supported Type 1 Emergency Department that manages over 100,000 attendances per year, including a high volume of paediatric presentations. The successful candidate will play a key role in clinical leadership, education, safeguarding, service development, and multidisciplinary collaboration with the paediatric team.
Candidates with a strong interest in education, leadership, quality improvement, or service redesign are particularly encouraged to apply.
Main duties of the job- Provide consultant-delivered Paediatric Emergency Medicine within the Emergency Department, including reception, resuscitation, diagnosis, and initial management of paediatric emergencies
- Lead and further develop Paediatric Emergency Medicine services within the ED
- Act as Paediatric Emergency Medicine clinical lead and ED safeguarding/child protection lead
- Ensure high standards of safe, timely, and compassionate care for children and young people
- Provide clinical leadership and supervision to junior doctors, ACPs, nurses, and the wider MDT
- Coordinate and deliver paediatric resuscitation teaching and courses (e.g. APLS/EPLS)
- Support and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, including University of Buckingham medical students
- Participate in audit, quality improvement, governance, appraisal, and revalidation
- Work closely with paediatric medical, surgical, orthopaedic, anaesthetic, and critical care teams across the Trust and regional network
- Contribute to departmental management, service development, and strategic planning
- Depending on base specialty, participate in the consultant on-call rota, delivered through annualised self rostering; current weekend frequency is 1 in 6
Milton Keynes University Hospital, in proud partnership with the University of Buckingham, is a University Teaching Hospital committed to advancing patient care through cutting edge research and education. With a "Good" rating from the CQC and significant investment underway, this is an exciting time to join our team and grow your career.
As a medium sized general hospital, we provide a full range of general medical and surgical services, including a busy Emergency Department, Maternity, and Paediatrics. As the population of our city and surrounding areas continues to grow rapidly, we are expanding and enhancing our facilities to meet rising demand and improve access to care for all our communities.
We are also proud to offer a growing portfolio of specialist services. In January 2025, we opened our state of the art Radiotherapy Centre, bringing advanced cancer treatment closer to home. Our services also include neonatology, specialist surgical care, and a wide range of diagnostics, supported by the new Community Diagnostic Centre at Whitehouse Health Centre.
Further investment is underway, including the construction of Oak Wards - a new ward block featuring two 24 bed wards - and the recently approved Women and Children's Centre, set to open by 2030.
Job responsibilities Job plan- 10 PAs total
- 7.5 DCC / 2.5 SPA
- SPA time includes core professional activities and agreed non core SPA, which may include:
- Paediatric Emergency Medicine leadership
- Safeguarding
- Education and supervision
- Research and quality improvement
- Clinical leadership development
- Job plans are reviewed annually and supported through an inclusive and equitable job planning process. Additional PAs and responsibility allowances may be available for defined leadership roles.
- Undergraduate teaching through the University of Buckingham and Oxford Medical Schools
- Postgraduate education, simulation, and faculty development
- New Consultant Development Programme
- Aspiring Clinical Leaders Programme
- 30 days study leave over 3 years with funding support
- Medical degree, FRCEM or equivalent
- Will be required to maintain full registration with the General Medical Council
- Applicants must be on the Specialist Register or be within 6 months of CCT.
- Advanced Life Support (Adult & Paediatric) as well as Advanced Trauma Life Support Provider or equivalent
- Instructor in ALS, EPLS and/or ATLS
- Other tertiary qualifications including Education
- Minimum seven years' postgraduate experience, including higher medical training - five years as a Specialist Registrar/Trainee. Part of this period may be in a post of equivalent responsibility and training potential.
- Recent experience in Emergency Medicine in the U.K.
- Subspecialty Training and Accreditation in Paediatric Emergency Medicine
- Interest in acute or observation medicine
- Interest/accreditation in Intensive Care Medicine
- Interest/accreditation in pre hospital emergency medicine
- Interest/training in medical leadership
- Interest/training in point of care ultrasound beyond the RCEM core level
- Knowledge and application of up to date evidence based practice.
- Excellent clinical knowledge in emergency medicine
- Breadth of experience within and outside speciality.
- Knowledge of clinical leadership and management topics
- Experience in leading the multidisciplinary management of Emergency patients.
- Understanding of clinical risk management
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Compassionate communication with patients, colleagues and staff at all levels.
- Committed to working in a multi disciplinary team to improve care for patients
- Ability to appraise and supervise trainees and other staff members
- A proven background in organising and delivering undergraduate and post graduate teaching with evidence of training for the role is highly desirable
- Ability to motivate and develop both medical staff and non medical staff.
- Compassionate and inclusive leadership style
- Proven ability to lead by example
- Experience in Medical leadership and desire to develop in this area
- Ability to work independently as well as part of the Emergency Directorate
- To balance individual requirements against those of the Directorate and Trust as a whole.
- Ability to gain the trust and confidence of colleagues and patients.
- Commitment to developing new services.
- Ability and desire to take part in Clinical Directorate management.
- Current PDP, experience with research or audit tools
- Professional publication
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.
£109,725 to £145,478 a year (Per Annum pro rata)