Consultant in Emergency Medicine & Paediatric Emergency Medicine
| Posting date: | 22 April 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £105,504 - £139,882 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 May 2025 |
| Location: | Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4LP |
| Company: | The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7159537/317-CON-25-108 |
Summary
A Vacancy at The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
We are delighted to be able to offer an exciting opportunity to join our team of Emergency Medicine consultants. The successful candidate will be part of a forward-thinking and high performing department and a regional Adult and Paediatric Major Trauma Centre. As a department we strive to keep our patients at the centre of all we do whilst providing the safest and highest quality healthcare possible. The Great North Trauma and Emergency Centre at the Royal Victoria Infirmary lies within a purpose-built trauma block and is situated in the heart of Newcastle city centre. The successful candidate will contribute to a consultant rota involving a mixture of 27 full and part time consultants providing extensive senior cover with 24/7 resident on call.
The successful candidates will contribute to a consultant rota providing senior cover with 24/7 resident on call andwill be part of the team delivering world-class care in the Great North Trauma and Emergency Centre situated in Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary.
Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
• Freeman Hospital
• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service
• Cramlington Manor Walks
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical:
· You will be actively involved in shop floor care in the Emergency Department, particularly in the management of complex and resuscitation cases.
· You will work numerous clinical shifts, including “Doctor in Charge”, resuscitation, paediatric ED, Rapid Assessment & Treatment, and Clinical Decision Unit.
· You will be part of the resident on-call rota commitments/pro rota
· You will supervise and teach Middle Grade and junior medical staff, as well as ACPs and nurse practitioners. There is also a significant commitment to undergraduate medical student teaching. Over 200 medical students pass through the department every year.
· Other clinical commitments include the care of in-patients on the Major Trauma Ward
· The department is a designated Regional Adult & Paediatric Major Trauma Centre.
· You will undergo continuing medical education (CME) in accordance with guidelines stipulated by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine.
· You will undertake an annual appraisal and job plan review. It is expected that objectives within job plan reviews will be based on Trust objectives such asfulfilment of fixed contractual commitments on the basis of a 43 week working year with due allowance for statutory holidays.
· It is a condition of employment that in so far as is reasonably practicable, all employees must minimise the risk of infection to themselves, colleagues, patients, relatives and visitors and, in so doing, must:
· be familiar with, and adhere to Trust policies and guidance on infection prevention and control;
· attend Trust Induction Programme(s) and statutory education programmes in infection prevention and control;
· include infection prevention and control as an integral part of your continuous personal/professional development and;
This advert closes on Saturday 26 Apr 2025
We are delighted to be able to offer an exciting opportunity to join our team of Emergency Medicine consultants. The successful candidate will be part of a forward-thinking and high performing department and a regional Adult and Paediatric Major Trauma Centre. As a department we strive to keep our patients at the centre of all we do whilst providing the safest and highest quality healthcare possible. The Great North Trauma and Emergency Centre at the Royal Victoria Infirmary lies within a purpose-built trauma block and is situated in the heart of Newcastle city centre. The successful candidate will contribute to a consultant rota involving a mixture of 27 full and part time consultants providing extensive senior cover with 24/7 resident on call.
The successful candidates will contribute to a consultant rota providing senior cover with 24/7 resident on call andwill be part of the team delivering world-class care in the Great North Trauma and Emergency Centre situated in Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary.
Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
• Freeman Hospital
• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service
• Cramlington Manor Walks
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical:
· You will be actively involved in shop floor care in the Emergency Department, particularly in the management of complex and resuscitation cases.
· You will work numerous clinical shifts, including “Doctor in Charge”, resuscitation, paediatric ED, Rapid Assessment & Treatment, and Clinical Decision Unit.
· You will be part of the resident on-call rota commitments/pro rota
· You will supervise and teach Middle Grade and junior medical staff, as well as ACPs and nurse practitioners. There is also a significant commitment to undergraduate medical student teaching. Over 200 medical students pass through the department every year.
· Other clinical commitments include the care of in-patients on the Major Trauma Ward
· The department is a designated Regional Adult & Paediatric Major Trauma Centre.
· You will undergo continuing medical education (CME) in accordance with guidelines stipulated by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine.
· You will undertake an annual appraisal and job plan review. It is expected that objectives within job plan reviews will be based on Trust objectives such asfulfilment of fixed contractual commitments on the basis of a 43 week working year with due allowance for statutory holidays.
· It is a condition of employment that in so far as is reasonably practicable, all employees must minimise the risk of infection to themselves, colleagues, patients, relatives and visitors and, in so doing, must:
· be familiar with, and adhere to Trust policies and guidance on infection prevention and control;
· attend Trust Induction Programme(s) and statutory education programmes in infection prevention and control;
· include infection prevention and control as an integral part of your continuous personal/professional development and;
This advert closes on Saturday 26 Apr 2025
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