Trust Senior House Officer- ST1 / 2 (MN35) - Emergency Medicine

The 24-hour Emergency Medicine services, supported by full acute hospital services, are focused at Watford General Hospital, which has recently been extensively upgraded. The nursing staff allocation provides for 12 Nurses on duty during day time shifts in the Emergency Department at Watford, and 7 nurses on duty at night (Fri Mon, 4 on duty at night Tue Thur). In addition, there is an Emergency nurse practitioner on duty for a major part of the working day in the minor injury unit within the A&E department at Watford. The Emergency Medicine directorate is part of the Clinical Management Unit Emergency Medicine and Acute Medicine, with shared management across the West Hertfordshire AcuteTrust. Management of the Emergency Department is under a single Clinical Director for Emergency Medicine. There is a General Manager for the CMU with overall management responsibility, accountable to the Clinical Directors, with two site based Service Managers each covering Emergency Medicine and
medical specialties. Genito-Urinary Medicine and CancerServices are also within this CMU. The Department has a 9-bedded Resuscitation Room and a dedicated Childrens Emergency Department. The Hospital is a Major Trauma Unit, part of the North West London Trauma Network.