Specialty Doctor in Emergency Medicine

Main area Emergency Department Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor Contract Fixed term: 12 months (12 months) Hours Full time - 10 sessions per week (10 PAs) Job ref 200MC-316-RG/2

Site St George's Hospital Town London Salary £61,542 - £99,216 pro rata per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 18/09/:59

St. George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the regional specialist care provider for south west London, Surrey and beyond. The trust provides a high quality, comprehensive range of health services from leading edge tertiary and trauma care to community services.

With national and regional referrals added to our local 3.5m catchment, we serve a population of around 5m.

Co-located with St George's, University of London and with both organisations now in a formal strategic alliance with King's Health Partners, the trust delivers with its partners high quality research and education both of which contribute to the healthcare provision of tomorrow.

Acute and tertiary health services are delivered from over 1,000 beds across two sites, by around 8,000 staff.

St. George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a major acute hospital that offers very specialist care for complex injuries and illnesses, including trauma, neurology, cardiac care, renal transplantation, cancer care and stroke. It has a helipad which opened in spring 2014 and the work of its emergency department can currently be seen on Channel 4's '24 Hours in A&E' programme. The hospital also provides all the usual care you would expect from a local NHS district general hospital.

We also provide services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Roehampton. These include outpatient rapid diagnostic and treatment facilities, a minor injuries unit, limb fitting services and 70 elderly, intermediate care and rehabilitation beds.

As well as hospital services, we provide a wide variety of specialist, maternity and community services to children, adults, older people and people with learning disabilities. These services are provided from St John's Therapy Centre, 11 health centres and clinics, schools, nursing homes and people's own homes. The trust also manages the healthcare service at HMP Wandsworth.

Job overview

Applications are invited for the post of Specialty Doctor in Emergency Medicine.

This is an excellent opportunity for doctors wanting to join our enthusiastic and dynamic team in a busy Emergency Department and London Major Trauma Centre.

We are looking for candidates at middle grade level who are at least 5 years post graduation with a minimum 18 months experience in Emergency Medicine. Those who do not quite fulfill all the criteria on the job matrix may be considered for a clinical fellow post.

Candidates must have experience working in the NHS or equivalent.

The post would be suitable for those who want to gain experience in a busy London Teaching hospital prior to entering higher training, those who wish to 'CESR' via the portfolio pathway.

There are plenty of opportunities for career progression and portfolio development. Those wishing to enter the portfolio pathway are fully supported including dedicated teaching, potential for secondments to other specialties such as ITU and for rotation to other local trusts.

Main duties of the job

1. The Specialty doctors are required to perform clinical work in the Emergency Department, as the first doctor to see patients with the range of problems that present to a busy Emergency Department.

2. The successful applicants will be expected to manage areas, support junior staff and contribute to the smooth running of the department, as required.

3. They will be required to participate in audit and encouraged to take on clinical research or quality improvement projects depending on the interests of the successful applicant(s). There will be an opportunity to present the results in the Emergency Department, and assistance is given with the preparation and submission of work for publication.

Study leave & allowance is available to all doctors

Working for our organisation

St George's University Hospital serves a population of 1.3 million across South West London and is part of GESH; St George's, Epsom and St Helier Hospital Group. A large number of services such as cardiothoracics, pelvic trauma, neurosciences and renal transplant also cover significant populations across the South East of England.

St George's is the designated heart attack centre, hyper-acute stroke unit and Major Trauma centre of South West London.

As well as acute hospital services, we provide a wide range of specialist care and community services to patients of all ages.

Our main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting; one of the country's principal teaching hospitals, is shared with City St George's University of London , which trains medical students and other healthcare professionals and also carries out advanced medical research

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We have consultants with diverse special interests including pre-hospital care, critical care, global health, paediatrics, simulation, ultrasound, research and education.

Successful candidates will have access to a study leave allowance and budget, be allocated educational supervisors and able to attend department teaching and governance. They would be allocated educational development time off the shop floor every week.

St Georges' in located in Tooting, an up and coming area of South West London. It is on the Northern line with excellent access to central London. It has great green spaces, the iconic lido and trendy Tooting market.

Please read the attached job description and person specification for more details.

Person specification Qualifications

• Full registration with General Medical Council

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years clinical experience post-graduation including 18 months ED

We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the trust - being excellent, kind, responsible and respectful - and behave in a way that reflects these. More information on the vision and values of St. George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is attached below.

Please note that this vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient applicants are received. Please check your email regularly as all candidates shortlisted for interview will be contacted and informed by email or via NHS Jobs.

As part of your pre-employment check we will be required to verify your identity. The document/s you present for this purpose will be checked for their authenticity by scanning all known security features. These features will include:

• The machine readable zone
• An ultra violet image
• An infra red image

As part of you pre-employment checks, we will also be required to obtain satisfactory, written references. Please ensure that the referee details which you provide on your application form are correct. We require atleast one written reference from your current or most recent line manager. We are only able to accept references from a professional work email address.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.