Are you a consultant looking for a challenging and rewarding career in Paediatric Emergency Medicine? If so, your application is invited to join our Emergency Department as a Consultant working in our Paediatric Emergency Department, this is a new post and an exciting role! Based at Lister Hospital in Stevenage the post comprises of 10 programmed activities (PAs) plus 2 indicative additional programmed activities (APAs) including on-call commitment.

The emergency services are provided through the Lister Hospital in Stevenage, within an hour's driving distance and 25 minutes by train from both London and Cambridge. This is an opportunity to join the enthusiastic, dynamically progressing and forward-thinking modern Emergency Medicine team. The department has new attendances in excess of 100,000 patients per annum. There is a separate dedicated Children's Emergency Department (CED) open 24-hours. The hospital also receives patients from the Hertfordshire Air Ambulance service and is a local trauma unit for the major trauma centre at Addenbrookes. The department has 24-hour middle grade cover with dedicated middle grades for CED 24/7.

Main duties of the job

o Maintenance of high-quality patient centered careo Shared responsibility for the day-to-day management of the service and participation in strategic planningo Teaching and training within the multidisciplinary serviceo Active involvement in multidisciplinary team meetings and directorate clinical governance activityo Active participation in continuing medical education

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Job description
Job responsibilities

In the paragraphs above you have read an overview about the role we would like to offer and general information about main duties of the post holder. Please see attached job description which describes in full details the duties, responsibilities and reporting relationships of the advertising role.

Person Specification
Qualifications / Training
Essential

• Entry on GMC Specialist Register or, be within 6 months of receipt of Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) at time of interview or, provide GMC confirmed eligibility for entry on the Specialist Register. CESR applicants will need to be on the Specialist Register at the time of interview
• MRCPCH by examination or equivalent
• Paediatric Emergency Medicine Subspecialty Training via RCPCH route (or demonstrably equivalent training)
• Advanced Paediatric Life Support (or European Paediatric Advanced Life Support) and Advanced Trauma Life Support
• Valid Level 3 Safeguarding Training

Desirable

• Postgraduate degree (or equivalent)
• ATLS/EPALS/APLS instructor status (at least one of these)

Previous Experience
Essential

• Broad range of experience in Paediatric Emergency Medicine in particular: ? Experience of a wide range of clinical procedures to carry out duties in an emergency. ? Experience in day-to-day organisation of Paediatric emergency services
• Experience of supervising undergraduates, doctors in training and other colleagues
• Ability to offer and be accountable for full and independent expert diagnostic opinion
• Can evidence leading on patient safety issues and achieving a change in practice

Desirable

• Demonstrable experience in a Locum Consultant role

Skills
Essential

• Able to evidence engagement with clinical governance and the identification of errors and the learning from errors.
• Evidence engagement with appraisal and revalidation

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