This role involves delivering care across adult and paediatric acute presentations, and managing trauma cases. You will work across the department, within adult majors and minors, the Children’s ED and in resus. As a Trust Grade doctor, you will be responsible for the initial assessment of patients, provision of immediate care as is necessary, and formulating and enacting an initial management plan in conjunction with more senior clinicians.
The applicant will be well led with excellent clinical supervision by senior staff during all shifts. You will be allocated a Consultant Mentor and Educational Supervisor to support and guide your professional development during your time with us.
Successful applicants will be welcomed into our vibrant and friendly multi-disciplinary team. There is a strong emphasis in team-work in our EDs and we work closely in collaboration with the Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC), and Intensive Care.
1. Clinical Responsibilities/Key Responsibilities
- Assessment and management of acute adult and paediatric presentations across a range of illnesses and injury
- Possessing a good understanding of the initial management of acute cases, with the insight and ability to ask for help from senior clinicians when required
- Be responsible for your own professional development, including attendance at teaching sessions as you are able
- Maintain and develop emergency care skills
- Development through reflection on care provided - both areas for improvement and examples of excellence
- Opportunities will be available for engagement with Quality Improvement and audit within the department
- Opportunities will be available for involvement with research projects
- You must be able to maintain good working relationships with a large multidisciplinary team, from a range of professional and cultural backgrounds
- You should possess excellent communication skills with both patients and other healthcare professionals, and the ability to use these skills to facilitate high standards of medical care
Gloucestershire Royal ED is an accredited Level 2 Trauma Unit, receiving the most trauma cases of all Trauma Units in the region. Within GRH ED there is a dedicated Pediatric Emergency area that receives ill and injured children.
Pediatric attendances constitute approximately 25% of all our attendances. There is Emergency Medicine Consultant supervision from 8am until midnight, seven days per week in GRH.
CGH ED receives emergency patients by ambulance until 8pm each day, after which the ambulance patients attend GRH. There is Consultant supervision in the ED at CGH until 10pm each weekday and until 5pm at weekends (where a senior Emergency Medicine clinician is present until 10pm). In addition, Cheltenham General Hospital (CGH) receives those patients suffering from acute stroke with an active stroke thrombolysis service.
You will need at least two years of postgraduate experience in a range of medical and surgical specialties (e.g. the UK Foundation programme), and previous experience of working within the NHS. You must have previous experience of managing acute adult medical and surgical presentations, with some experience of assessing and managing children. Emergency Medicine requires a degree of autonomy, and although you will be well supported by senior doctors on every shift, you must be comfortable with the initial management of critical cases, and possess suitable communication and interpersonal skills to work within a large multi-disciplinary team.