Locum Consultant in Emergency Medicine - Whiston Hospital

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Locum Consultant Contract Locum: 12 months Hours Full time - 10 sessions per week (10 PA per week) Job  

Site Whiston Hospital Town Prescot Salary £113,565 - £150,569 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 27/10/2026 23:59

This post is for a Locum Consultant in Emergency Medicine. This is a full-time fixed term post for 12 months offering an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated Medic to join a dynamic, rapidly expanding team delivering multidisciplinary care in Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals.

Applicants are required to be fully registered with the General Medical Council at the time of appointment.

Medical Care Group

The emergency department is managed within the medical care group which includes medical specialities and paediatrics. Recent developments within the care group include an extensive project, Medicine Redesign, with many developments for improving efficiencies in the ED, acute and speciality medical wards. The Trust is very engaged in delivering egress from the Emergency Department. An expansion of consultant physicians has allowed progress to move towards 7 day working throughout all medical wards.

Job Plan

(days not fixed and negotiable with new employee and current staff)

You will work a 10 PA fixed term contract for one year.

1PA SPA, 9 PA clinical working both in paediatrics and adults

You will be required to work Monday evenings starting at 4pm and finishing at midnight

You will be required to work 1 in 6 weekends

There will be no on call commitment

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

Our services:

Acute Care

Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.

Primary Care

Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.

Community Services

Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.

Specialist Regional Services

We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

Achievements:

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme.

Please find attached detailed job description and person specification for main responsibilities and requirements.

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• Full GMC registration at the time of appointment
• MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
• FRCEM or equivalent medical qualification
• ALS, ATLS or ETC and APLS or equivalent qualification
• Instructor status for one or more of the…