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Consultant in Emergency Medicine

Employer: Barts Health NHS Trust

Location: London

Salary: £93,666 to £126,281 p.a.

Closing date

If you are looking for:

·         A team of friendly, supportive and motivated consultants

·         A department that prioritises high quality patient care, training and education 

·         Patients with a wide range of emergency and critical illnesses

·         An opportunity to develop sub-specialty interests

·         A fair work life balance

Then, consider joining our friendly, dynamic team based here at Newham University Hospital.  We are looking to expand our team of 16 consultants (3 with PEM sub-specialty training). We pride ourselves on a consultant-led and delivered service and believe this is key to excellence in Emergency Care. Professional well-being and supporting a sustainable work-life balance is a priority in the department.

Newham University Hospital in East London sees over 90,000 emergency patients every year. It is a Trauma Unit with strong links to the Major Trauma Centre at the Royal London Hospital, which is also part of Barts Health.  Newham is the largest borough within the Trust’s catchment area. The local population is very young and diverse, the case-mix exciting and varied, often with high acuity. There is a separate Paediatric Emergency Department and Urgent Care Centre. 

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will work across all areas of the department, including our co-located Adult and Paediatric Clinical Decision Units, as well as Adult and Paediatric Same Day Emergency Care. You will provide shop-floor supervision to a large team of 66 junior doctors (including ST3-6 trainees, ACCS and CESR doctors), ACPs, and PAs.  
 
We are keen to ensure all our consultants are supported to develop, learn and maintain sub-specialty interests, e.g. Paediatric Emergency Medicine, Pre-Hospital and Community Emergency Medicine. Opportunities exist within the Trust for sessions in Pre-Hospital Care as well as the Remote Emergency Access Co-ordination Hub (REACH) which provides virtual assessment of 999 referrals.

Benefits of joining the team at Newham include: 

Working for our organisation

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.  

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.  

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.  

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.