Job overview

Locum Consultant in Emergency Medicine with subspecialty interest in Paediatric Emergency Medicine

Employer: Barts Health NHS Trust

Location: London

Salary: £105,504 - £139,882

 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) with more dual-trained consultants. 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 sees over 90,000 Emergency patients per year, with another 75,000 seen in a co-located Urgent Care Centre.  There are Same Day Emergency Care Units within both the Adult and Paediatric departments, as well as an Ambulatory Medicine Unit for suitable adult patients run by the Medical Team.  Newham is the largest borough within the Trust’s catchment area. The local population is young and diverse, the case-mix exciting and varied, often with high acuity. 

Main duties of the job

ambulatory clinical pathways for all specialties. There is a separate SDEC unit for children, also managed by emergency medicine

Front Door

All Consultants play a key role in actively reviewing all patients on arrival, supporting rapid diagnostics and treatment, as well as streaming and redirection to the most appropriate services. We aim to cover both walk-in patients and ambulance handover with a senior decision maker. This ensures maximal utilisation of partners in the urgent care network, Hospital Avoidance Teams and GP out of hours services. There is a collaborative approach in delivery of emergency care across acute and community settings.

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.