Trust Doctor in Emergency Medicine | University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Minimum Experience

Must have completed MRCEM (members by examination), as well as having NHS experience.

The Emergency Department is based at Hull Royal Infirmary and is the major Emergency Department serving the districts of Hull and East Yorkshire, being one of the largest departments by attendance in the UK.

The department receives patients from the South Bank of the River Humber. The total population covered is approximately 600,000. Hull Royal Infirmary is the Major Trauma Centre for East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire. The ED is a regional Paediatric Trauma Unit.

There are over 130,000 attendances annually making it one of the busiest EDs and is graded as a Large ED as per the Royal College of Emergency Medicine description. The department has a close working relationship with the physician led Acute Assessment Unit, which lies adjacent to the department. Extensive adjacent radiological support is shared by the Emergency Department and the Acute Assessment Unit, including two spiral CT scanners, MRI, ultrasound and plain radiology service.

The radiology department supports the diagnostic service with consultant support during working hours in radiology and neuroradiology, and specialist registrar support 24-hours a day. There is also an Ambulatory Care Unit (SDEC) which accepts medical patients from the Emergency Department and from Primary Care. There is a Surgical Assessment Unit on the surgical floor.

Working as a trust grade registrar in our ED you will be expected to perform at the level of a RCEM registrar in training. You will join the registrar rota and be a senior decision maker, working in all areas to provide safe patient care, enhanced team working and leadership. This involves supporting juniors, offering advice and reviews, seeing time critical patients in a timely and concise manner, reviewing the sickest patients in the department and liaising with other specialties to ensure patients are seen by the right team at the right time.

The skill level should be that of a tier 4 clinician as defined by RCEM (ST4+ and above) with anaesthetic and paediatric competences, as well as major trauma experience.

As well a clinical duties, there will be opportunities for education (department and self-led) with built in study time, as well as opportunities to take part in research and QIP work. A supervisor provided to support with projects and general concerns.

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts – Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) – our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas – biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.

For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

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