Chief Registrar in Emergency Medicine | Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 17 March 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £65,048 - £73,992 Per Annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 April 2026 |
| Location: | Oxford, OX3 9DU |
| Company: | Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7836764/321-MRC-MS-7836764-S6 |
Summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an energetic, forward-thinking Emergency Medicine clinician who wishes to develop higher level skills in Emergency Medicine combined with leadership, management, quality improvement and service development.
The Trust is looking to appoint a Chief Registrar in Emergency Medicine to continue its very successful previous appointments to Chief Registrar within both Emergency Medicine, Ambulatory Medicine and Acute Medicine. These posts are supported by the Royal College of Physicians, Royal College of Emergency Medicine and Health Education England and are aimed to help trainees develop key skills that will equip them for their career as a consultant.
OUHNHSFT has recruited Chief Registrars every year since the launch of the RCP programme. The Chief Registrars have had the opportunity to work on service development and quality improvement alongside leadership skills and have presented their work at a variety of national forums. Their success is allowing the Trust to continue to have Chief Registrars for the coming year.
Support will be given from the consultant body as well as from key leaders within the Trust.
For further details please contact: Dr Ruth Carter: Emergency Medicine Consultant, ruth.carter@ouh.nhs.uk Dr Sudhir Singh: Accountable Officer and Clinical Director, Sudhir.singh@ouh.nhs.uk
OUH offers this role as an opportunity for advanced training that is complementary to existing specialist curricula. If a local (Thames Valley) trainee is successfully appointed to the role previous precedent has been to run the programme as an ‘in training’ opportunity, with the clinical FTE worked contributing towards training progression (typically 50-60% FTE). Should the successful applicant be in a trainee programme elsewhere, they would need to consider application for the post as OOPT or OOPE. Previously permission has been given from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine for the EM CR role to be classed as an ‘OOPT’ post, with the clinical proportion of the role (typically 60% FTE) contributing to training progression for those working towards a CCT. Should the successful applicant not be in a formal training programme, the 12 month post offered will be a fixed term and request for secondement could be considered.
The posts within the Emergency Department can be full or less than fulltime with early discussions with the Clinical Lead. The Chief Registrar component is recommended to be 40% FTE.
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH)
OUH offers this role as an opportunity for advanced training that is complementary to existing specialist curricula. The post is open to any EM middle grade ST3+ and is especially suited to senior clinicians. Applications are open to trainee and non-trainee ED doctors. Thames Valley EM trainees will be able to apply for the post as an in-trainingprogrammeopportunity, withclinicalproportion (50-60%) contributing to training progression. EM trainees from other geographical areas would need to consider OOPE or OOPT application. EM middle grade clinicians not on a trainingprogrammecould consider application as a free standing12 monthcontract, or a via secondment if locally agreed.
More than 12monthsexperienceworking in a UK Emergency department is anessential criteriafor application.
The posts within the Emergency Department can be full or less thanfulltimewith early discussions with the Clinical Lead.
Clinical
60% of ‘basic’ time will focus on delivering and leading clinical care within OUH’s Emergency Departments the John Radcliffe and Horton Hospital sites. A full shift-based Emergency Medicine rota including out of hours work will proportionally reflect those working on the same rota tier. This will include clinical work in the day, evening, night and weekends.
40% protected Chief Registrar time
In aggregate, 40% of ‘basic’ time (‘in-hours’) will be allocated to non-clinical time supporting service transformation, project delivery and leadership skill development. Delivering this will require close work with management teams, to initiate and develop projects including those identified by the Chief
Registrars. This proteted time also includes access to the prestigious national training program delivered by the RCP, further details on the RCP Chief registrar website.
All activities will embrace the Trust’s vision of patient-centered service transformation and be aligned with the Future Hospital Commission’s recommendations for ambulatory and same-day emergency care: with greater vertical and horizontal integration of acute services transcending traditional hospital-community and intra-hospital barriers. Such activities will complement Trust service improvement initiatives, and will have patient safety and the delivery of high-quality, better safe, compassionate care at their core.
This advert closes on Tuesday 31 Mar 2026
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