Consultant in Emergency Medicine
Requirements
Must be on the GMC Specialist Register for Emergency Medicine or within 6 months of CCT. Requires MBBS or equivalent, along with ALS, ATLS, or APLS provider status.
Job Description
We are looking for new enthusiastic Consultants in Emergency Medicine who have a passion to deliver excellent care to patients at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital and Good Hope Hospital Emergency Departments. This is an exciting opportunity to become part of one of the UK's largest NHS Trusts, delivering high-quality emergency care to a diverse population across Birmingham and the surrounding areas. Effective management of the emergency workload is a major priority for the Trust, and we are looking to recruit Consultants who will help us to deliver high-quality care by working within and alongside the existing Emergency Medicine teams.
The Emergency Medicine team is supported by a broad range of other clinicians including emergency practitioners, advanced care practitioners, doctors in training, locally employed doctors and medical students. The ED departments are further supported by nursing, flow co-ordinators, operational and admin colleagues, to support the delivery of high-quality care.
Main Duties, Tasks & Skills Required
The post holder will be expected to work as part of the Consultant team and contribute to the development of the department and Emergency Medicine as a speciality. The post holder will work closely with nursing, managerial and medical colleagues to provide high quality healthcare for patients.
Provision of a first class clinical service for patients.
Development and Championship of the speciality of Emergency Medicine.
Provision of leadership to all staff both in clinical and non-clinical settings
Participation in teaching, research, audit and governance programmes within the EM Directorate.
Appetite for professional self-development and innovation
Pro-active engagement in the development of Emergency services. Excellent communication skills and self-awareness.
Emotional resilience.
**Please see further duties and tasks in the attached Job Description and Person Specification Document**
About Us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Job Description
Our departments include a resuscitation area, high dependency areas, majors areas, minor injury areas, paediatric areas and, at Good Hope Hospital, a GP in ED service. At Heartlands, minor injuries and minor illness care is delivered from the newly built Urgent Care Centre (UCC).
Both hospitals are designing and building Urgent Treatment Centres over the next year, and on the Heartlands site we are designing an Emergency Village which should contain Adult and Paediatric ED, UTC, multiple SDECs, Radiology and ITU. This provides ample opportunity for involvement in strategy and design within and beyond the Emergency Department.
For further details of this post please see attached Job Description and Person Specification.
The successful candidate will provide expert clinical leadership within a busy Emergency Medicine service, managing a wide spectrum of acute presentations while supporting the delivery of safe, effective, and patient-centred care. You will work closely with multidisciplinary teams to drive service improvement, enhance patient flow, and contribute to achieving key operational and quality standards.
These are 10PA jobs, but we may be able to offer personalisation to the successful candidate. There is an expectation that all consultants undertakeadditionalrolesto aid departmental development and educational supervision, this will be finalised with successful candidates in your personalised job plan andnormally ranges between 1.5-2.5 SPA. There will be opportunities to develop personal and subspecialty interests depending on experience and service needs.
Appointees must have necessary qualifications and should either be on the Specialist Register of the GMC or be within 6 months of the CCT at the time of interview.
These posts would appeal to both established Consultants with experience and new consultants.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential
Full registration with GMC with a licence to practice
- MBBS or equivalent
- FRCEM or equivalent
- Entry on the GMC specialist register for Emergency Medicine or within 6 months of entry on the GMC specialist register for EM (via CCT or CESR post submission of papers) * ALS/ ATLS/ APLS (or equivalent) provider status
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.
UK Professional Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
For Help With Your Application, Contact
Dr Selina Ball
selina.ball@uhb.nhs.uk
Pay scheme
Hospital Medical and Dental
Band
Consultant
Salary
£113565.00 to £150569.00 Yearly
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-Time
Reference number
304-EP-9017976
Job locations
Trustwide
Mindelsohn Way
Birmingham
West Midlands
B15 2TH
Attachments
Job Description
ED JDPSJul26.pdf – 571KB Opens in a new window
Education
Skills
About University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in England, serving a regional, national and international population. It includes Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Solihull Hospital and Community Services, Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield and Birmingham Chest Clinic. We also run a number of smaller satellite units, allowing people to be treated as close to home as possible. We see and treat more than 2.2 million people every year across our sites and our hospitals deliver more babies than anywhere else in Europe. We are a regional centre for cancer, trauma, renal dialysis, burns and plastics, HIV and AIDS, as well as respiratory conditions like cystic fibrosis. We also have expertise in premature baby care, bone marrow transplants and thoracic surgery and have the largest solid organ transplantation programme in Europe. We provide a series of highly specialist cardiac, liver and neurosurgery services to patients from across the UK. We are world-renowned for our trauma care and have developed pioneering surgical techniques in the management of ballistic and blast injuries, including bespoke surgical solutions for previously unseen injuries. As a result of its clinical expertise in treating trauma patients and military casualties, the QEHB has been designated both a Level 1 Trauma Centre and host of the UK’s only £20m National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research Centre (SRMRC). We have over 24,000 members of staff and we are committed to investing in their development and their health and wellbeing. UHB is a Stonewall Diversity Champion and aims to achieve positive change for LGBTQ+ people by creating an inclusive, inspiring and equal environment for both staff and service users.
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