Specialty Doctor in Emergency Medicine – 3 vacancies
Full time
Salary scale: £36,807 – £68,638 (dependant on experience)
Based: Weston General Hospital

Duties of the Post

To provide direct care to patients presenting to the Emergency Department.
To provide supervision and hands-on training to F2’s/ST’s and other emergency staff.

Principal Duties

• The Specialty Doctor is required to promote early and appropriate response to patients according to triage times
• To formulate a diagnosis and develop a management strategy or plan for each patient
• Review any concerns regarding diagnosis or management of patients by other medical staff, if necessary in consultation with the Lead Consultant
• To provide relief for the patient’s acute pain or distress where possible and as quickly as possible
• Provide patient management in accordance with Emergency Services protocols, practice standards and trust policies
• To participate, under the direction of a consultant in emergency medicine, in emergency department clinical audits, i.e. review of the appropriateness of investigations, laboratory and X-ray procedures; review of complaints; review of case notes; review of attendance times and response to the triage nurse codes; review of deaths occurring with the service
• To participate in annual staff appraisals

Full job description available upon request

Weston Area Health NHS Trust provides acute services for a 200,000-strong local population and for 2.5 million summer visitors to this popular West Country seaside resort. The hospital building was opened on the Uphill site in 1986 and has been extended since to include a dedicated education building, a day case unit, day oncology unit and medical assessment ward.

The Trust employs more than 1,700 people and provides 350 beds. Services include in-patient facilities for surgical and medical specialities, as well as maternity services, community paediatrics and child and adolescent mental health services, x-ray, pathology, pharmacy, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech therapy, audiology and pathology and radiology and other support services.

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Reference: PERM-56585

To apply for this post, please complete the 3-part application form below, providing as much information as possible, attach your CV at part 1 and click on ‘Send Email’. The more information you can provide us, the better your chance of getting through the initial pre-screening stage.

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Part 1 - General information

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Part 2 - Personal circumstances

What is your career plan?

Why would you like to work in the UK or another country? How long would you like to work here for?

Will you be accompanied by any family or dependents? Please supply details. If you have a partner, will they require a job too?

What is your notice period from your current job? When will you be available to arrive in the UK?

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Do you have other job applications in process? Can you say for which posts and where?

Part 3 - Current post

What type of hospital are you working in, eg, private, state etc? How many beds?

What is the team structure? How many doctors work in your department? What grade do you report to?

Have there been any clinical complaints against you in the last five years? If yes, please provide information on separate sheet as to status/outcome.

Please describe your clinical workload?

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Please complete Parts 1, 2 and 3 before you send your application. Parts 2 and 3 are not required but this may affect our ability to select you in the pre-screening stage.

NHS Lothian

Specialty Doctor – Weston-Super-Mare, UK