Consultant in Emergency Medicine Job Leicester area,England UK,Nursing

Consultant in Emergency Medicine

The closing date is 30 July 2026

Fancy a new challenge in a purpose-built Emergency Department? Ready to test your emergency medicine skills in one of the busiest Emergency Departments in the country? Then Leicester could be for you...

UHL is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in the UK. The Emergency Department (ED) is based at Leicester Royal Infirmary where we see over 240,000 patients a year.

The new emergency department was completed in April 2017. The new Emergency Department incorporates a 48 majors cubicles, a 12 cubicle Emergency Room and a separate Children's ED with 12 bedded Short Stay Paediatric Unit for children who are expected to stay less than 18 hours.

The ED in Leicester has pioneered an annualised consultant rota which is increasingly being adopted in other centres. This offers personal flexibility, within a large committed team, time for sub-specialty interests in existing Consultants and support for others.

Despite the clinical work pressures and challenges, our ED is a leading light nationally in Paediatric EM, EM Research, EM education and Geriatric EM and is actively developing a program in Pre-Hospital EM.

Leicester offers the option of rural or city living, excellent state and private education, easy access to London by train (55min) and East Midlands airport (30min).

Main duties of the job

Principle Elements of the Post:

Participate in the delivery of high quality Consultant led shop floor clinical care for the Emergency Department.
To provide on-call cover and cover for Major Incidents
Ensure high clinical standards are met through structured supervision of Specialist Registrars, Junior Doctors, Emergency Care Practitioners and Advanced Nurse Practitioners
To deliver and promote excellence in teaching of medical students, paramedics, doctors, nurses and Emergency Nurse Practitioners
To actively support and promote a culture of high quality patient care through multi-disciplinary Clinical Governance, audit activities and quality improvement projects
Actively engage in the non-clinical and administrative work that underpins excellence in clinical care
To act in a way that is consistent with UHL's five values
To work with the Clinical Governance team to enhance patient safety
To support and oversee the placement of students in the department and act as a clinical teacher
To facilitate delivery of undergraduate teaching as directed by the departmental undergraduate education lead

About us

Our new strategy, 'Leading in healthcare, trusted in communities' was developed with the support and feedback of colleagues, patients, and partners and is our compass for the next seven years ).

We have four primary goals:

high-quality care for all,
being a great place to work,
partnerships for impact, and
research and education excellence

And we will embed health equality in all we do - taking active steps to reduce the avoidable differences in healthcare that some people face, working in partnership with communities.

Our strategy is underpinned by new values and we will work to ensure they are an everyday reality for all:

we are compassionate,
we are proud,
we are inclusive,
we are one team

This is an exciting moment as we look to the future with clarity on what we already do well and where we need to focus our energies to make an even bigger difference for the people we serve.

Job responsibilities

Background

This post is part of a strategy to provide increased consultant cover from 08:00 01:00 and overnight 20:00-08:00 7-days per week in the Emergency Department.

Principle Elements of the Post

Participate in the delivery of high quality Consultant led shop floor clinical care for the Emergency Department.
To provide on-call cover and cover for Major Incidents
Ensure high clinical standards are met through structured supervision of Specialist Registrars, Junior Doctors, Emergency Care Practitioners and Advanced Nurse Practitioners
To deliver and promote excellence in teaching of medical students, paramedics, doctors, nurses and Emergency Nurse Practitioners
To actively support and promote a culture of high quality patient care through multi-disciplinary Clinical Governance, audit activities and quality improvement projects
Actively engage in the non-clinical and administrative work that underpins excellence in clinical care
To act in a way that is consistent with UHL's five values
To work with the Clinical Governance team to enhance patient safety
To support and oversee the placement of students in the department and act as a clinical teacher
To facilitate delivery of undergraduate teaching as directed by the departmental undergraduate education lead

Job Plan

The job plan will be subject to annual review, with any revisions sought by mutual agreement but it is expected that the successful candidate will work with the ED management team to ensure that services are delivered efficiently and reflect best practice with processes and governance to match - this may require new and flexible ways of working…