Consultant in Emergency Medicine

This a fantastic opportunity to join the Consultant & Specialist Doctor team at Harrogate Emergency Department. The department has seen significant investment in 2022/23 leading to a clinically-led rebuild and expansion of the senior clinician teams. This, along with our strong continuous improvement ethos has seen significant improvements in performance, workforce and patient satisfaction. The region's trainees will often place us top of their rotation request! Our small, dynamic and friendly department is based in beautiful Harrogate with endless countryside at the doorstep. Our job plans are competitive with low on call frequency and enhanced rates for evenings and weekends. The successful candidate will be supported to take their career in the direction of their choosing, ensuring wellbeing is prioritised. There are very clear leadership opportunities throughout the trust supported by our approachable and engaging executive teams., To work with Consultant colleagues and the wider multidisciplinary team to ensure that the team and department delivers a high quality, well led service for Emergency patients attending Harrogate & District Foundation Trust.

We are looking for an exceptional individual who has the ability, skills and vision to support and lead our excellent team of junior doctors, nurses, allied health professionals and administrative staff to improve our services to the benefit of patients and colleagues working within the Emergency department.

Our Type 1 care is based at Harrogate Hospital (~55,000 attendances) and we also have a satellite MIU for Type 3 care in nearby Ripon. There will be 9.4WTE Consultants/Specialist Doctors working 14.5hrs per day, 16 WTE Tier 3 Clinicians and a combination of Tier 1 clinicians, Tier 2 clinicians, ACPs and clinical fellows delivering the rest of the rota. We have a hugely popular and successful CESR programme and our SAS community is thriving. We hold a strong culture of continuous improvement and you will find QI work being completed throughout the team.

Harrogate is a thriving and affluent spa town, renowned for its 200 acres of central parkland and prime location on the edge of the Yorkshire moors. Located between York and Leeds, it is within easy reach of modern cities and transport links, yet maintains its own traditional charm. There are excellent facilities for families including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.