Speciality Doctor in Emergency Medicine

We are recruiting for a 12 month fixed term Speciality Doctors in Emergency Medicine, to support the Trust's strategy in developing and supporting the delivery of excellent emergency clinical care in West London.

We are looking for someone who wants to work in a dynamic, innovative and evolving team.

We are absolutely focused on ensuring that our hospitals provide high quality, safe and compassionate care, while driving forward the building of the new Hillingdon Hospital, which is due to be built by 2027., The Department focuses on the provision of evidence based emergency medicine, teaching, training and excellence, while maintaining operational standards.

A co-located GP-led Urgent Care Centre delivers care for both adults and children with minor illness and injury. There are stringent and well-defined clinical criteria for streaming individual patients either to the Urgent Care Centre or Emergency Medicine. Patients may also be referred from the Urgent Care Centre to Emergency Medicine, where appropriate.

The Emergency Department adheres to key performance indicators (KPIs) and the appointee will be expected to work toward these operational standards.

With this in mind, these posts will help in achieving these operational standards while maintaining excellent care in the Emergency Department; furthermore, these posts complying with the new Specialty doctor contract changes of 2021

Education and training is at the forefront of the departmental philosophy. There is regular teaching and training opportunities, both informal (including bedside teaching from consultants, board rounds), and formal (including regular internal training days, journal clubs and secondments to other specialties) and these have contributed to the success of both trainees and Trust doctors in RCEM examinations.

Furthermore, the Emergency Department is committed to research involvement, and quality improvement methodology in order to constantly improve the treatment delivered to our patient population., The department has a history of innovation in patient care and has a continuing personal development programme to support on-going service development.

You will have the opportunity to help shape the future direction of the department and take part in Hospital-wide initiatives to improve Emergency Care and the patient experience.

The post holders will be expected to participate fully in the provision of general services in Emergency Medicine, including governance issues and the ED improvement plan , which includes the next phase of our Resuscitation service development.

The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has a thriving and expanding Emergency Department with a secure future which saw approximately 165,000 attendances in 2019-19 (including attendances to our co located UCC), In addition approximately 100 patients in a day are seen in the Minor Injuries Unit at our Mount Vernon Hospital site.