Specialist in Emergency & Urgent Care - Equivalent to GP

About the Role

We are looking for a motivated and innovative Specialist Grade in Emergency & Urgent Care (equivalent to General Practitioner with Specialist interest in Emergency & Urgent Care) to work in the Emergency and Urgent Integrated Care Departments at Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust. This role may suit an experienced General Practitioner looking for a new challenge.

• Working alongside other members of the Emergency Medicine multi-disciplinary team to deliver high quality healthcare in the Emergency and Urgent Integrated Care Departments across both our Pinderfields and Dewsbury sites.
• An interface role between primary care and secondary care looking at how we can support getting patients to the right service in a timely fashion.
• Developing clinical pathways which span the primary care/secondary care interface.
• Contributing to clinical governance and quality improvement within urgent and emergency care.
• Contributing to the ongoing education of the multidisciplinary team in urgent and emergency care.
• Maintenance of the highest clinical standards in assessment, diagnosis and management of patients presenting to the Emergency Department and Urgent Integrated Care Stream.
• Development of services and pathways across the primary and secondary care interface between ED, UIC, and acute medicine.
• Provide senior support, leadership and formal clinical supervision to medical trainees and advanced clinical practitioners (ACPs).

To meet the requirements of this role, applicants must demonstrate the following essential criteria:

• Practices within professional values and behaviors expected of all doctors as set out in GMC Good Medical Practice and the Generic Professional Capabilities Framework, including current licence to practice from the GMC.
• Demonstrates the underpinning subject‑specific competences (knowledge, skills and behaviors relevant to the role setting and scope).
• Clinically evaluates and manages a patient, formulates a prioritized differential diagnosis, initiates an appropriate management plan, and reviews and adjusts this depending on treatment outcomes.
• Manages complexity and uncertainty in care, employing expertise and clinical decision‑making skills of a senior and independent autonomous practitioner.
• Critically reflects on own competence, understands limits, and seeks help when required.
• Communicates effectively and shares decision‑making with patients, relatives, and carers, treating patients as individuals and promoting a person‑centred approach to their care.
• Respects patients' dignity, ensures confidentiality, and communicates appropriately where barriers exist (e.g., interpreters).
• Demonstrates key generic clinical skills around the areas of concern, ensuring humane interventions, prescribing medicine safely, and using medical devices safely.
• Adheres to professional requirements, participating in annual appraisal, job planning, and reviews of performance and progression.
• Awareness of legal responsibilities relevant to the role, such as mental capacity, deprivation of liberty, data protection, equality and diversity.
• Applies basic principles of public health, including population health, promoting health and wellbeing, nutrition, exercise, vaccination and illness prevention.
• MBBS or equivalent.
• Full GMC registration with a licence to practice (Full Registration and a Licence to Practice with the General Medical Council or eligibility before commencement).
• Previous experience working independently within an NHS emergency, urgent or acute care setting.
• Experience working effectively in a busy, high‑pressure clinical environment.
• Minimum of 12 years full‑time postgraduate training (or equivalent gained part‑time or LTFOT) since obtaining a primary medical qualification.
• Minimum of 6 years’ experience in the Specialty Doctor/SAS Grade or equivalent in Emergency Medicine or a similar specialty.
• Eligibility to work in the UK.
• Disclosure + Barring Service (DBS) clearance.

• Access to the NHS pension plan
• Generous holiday allowance of 27 days plus bank holidays, increasing with 5 and 10 years of service
• Exceptional employee health and wellbeing services
• Extensi…