Consultant in Emergency Medicine

East Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Trust is looking to employ a permanent Consultant in Emergency Medicine.

The role of a Consultant in Emergency Medicine is challenging yet rewarding, we are one of the busiest Emergency Departments in the country and see the highest number of Ambulance arrivals in the North West. We run three sites including the main Emergency Department, Paediatric Emergency Department and Urgent Treatment Centre at the Royal Blackburn site, the Urgent Treatment Centre at the Burnley General Hospital site and an Emergency Nurse Practitioner lead Minor Injuries Unit at Accrington Victoria Hospital.

You would be joining an 20 person EM Consultant Team working an 18 week rota which includes 7 on-call shifts over the 18 weeks. The rest of the shifts are varied to cover ED, Resus and the two Urgent Treatment Centres.

The successful candidate will need to have been trained in Emergency Medicine and have FRCEM, CESR or CCT and be on the Specialist Register for Emergency Medicine, Clinical duties include duties normally expected of a consultant working in any ED in the UK

o Leadership whilst running the shift and taking the role of Trauma or Resuscitation Team Leader

o Reception, resuscitation, diagnosis and initial treatment of all emergencies

o Onward referral of patients as appropriate

o Providing supervision, teaching and support to trainees, students and other staff in the EDand UTC

o Ensuring the timely assessment of patients, that safety is maintained at all times and where possible flow through the department continues

The role has a split of 7 DCC PA and 3 SPA PA as standard with admin time for DCC planned into the rota. Consultants have Clinical Educator shifts and go onto the shop floor during these shifts to directly supervise trainees. During your SPA time you will undertake the role of being an EducationalSupervisor and there are opportunities to take on lead roles in trauma, research, audit, governance, resus and education

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust provides a caring service to a population of 550,000 in the Pennine Lancashire area. Services are provided from our two main sites, the Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital and Burnley General Teaching Hospital and from our community rehabilitation wards at Pendle Community Hospital, Accrington Victoria Hospital and Clitheroe Community Hospital. We treat almost 700,000 patients every year in our hospitals and community settings, using state-of the-art equipment and facilities. We provide a full range of acute hospital and adult community services and we are a specialist centre for hepatobiliary, head and neck and urological cancer services, robotic assisted surgery, specialist cardiology services and we are also a network provider of Level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care. We are a nationally accredited Centre for Endometriosis and UroGynaecology Surgery. Our Blackburn site is the centre for all acute services in East Lancashire other
than Obstetrics and Gynaecology. The Emergency Department at Blackburn is the only ED for East Lancashire and is a Trauma Unit in the Lancashire Trauma Network working closely with the TraumaCentre at the Royal Preston Hospital. The ED is supported by Urgent Care Centres at Blackburn and Burnley and a Minor Injuries Unit at Accrington. We have day and night Air Ambulance helicopter landing facilities.