Consultant in Emergency Medicine

Overview

The post holder will be expected to share responsibility for the delivery of high-quality care to the patients presenting to the ED and the following:

Responsibilities

• To have oversight of all team activity during their clinical session and provide support to other team members as needed.




• Demonstrate excellence in patient care.




• To provide appropriate supervision to doctors in training, locally employed doctors and other clinical practitioners.




• Administrative duties related to patient care.




• Contribution to undergraduate, post-graduate and continuing medical education activity, including AHPs as part of the multidisciplinary team.




• Regular participation in departmental meetings.




• Consultants are encouraged and supported with research audit and QI projects.




• Appropriate evening and weekend on-call commitments.




• To examine and treat patients in the ED.




• To support the clinical decision making of all medical and nursing clinicians within the Department.




• To provide on call support out of hours as agreed in the job plan.




• To attend the Department out of hours as per the agreed job plan.




• To remain contactable and available when on call.




• Provide consultant leadership for trauma calls and the management of critically ill/injured patients in QEHB role as Major Trauma Centre.




• Participate in the Trust Major Incident and Mass Casualty arrangements, including attendance during declared incidents and participation in training/simulation exercises.

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