Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Locum Consultant in Emergency Medicine
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Locum Consultant in Emergency Medicine
A Locum Consultant in Emergency Medicine provides senior clinical leadership within the Emergency Department (ED), delivering expert assessment, decision-making, and management of acutely unwell or injured patients while overseeing the performance, safety, and development of the multidisciplinary team. The post holder will;
- Lead the delivery of high-quality, timely emergency care for patients presenting with undifferentiated and complex conditions.
- Provide senior clinical decision-making to support safe flow through the ED and into inpatient or community pathways.
- Ensure clinical governance, patient safety, and service improvement remain central to departmental practice.
This is a fixed term Locum Consultant post for 6 months.
The Post Holder Will
- Specifically adopt, in conjunction with colleagues, an active role in the planning, development, and delivery of the Emergency Service for the Directorate.
- Provide direct input to patients; contribute to multi-disciplinary teams and lead the coordination of care for patients within Preston and Chorley Hospitals.
- Participate in the Consultant on-call rota at the Royal Preston Hospital and Chorley and South Ribble Hospitals with additional cover during colleague’s absence.
- Assume a continuous commitment for the care of patients, even if employed less than full time, and ensure that adequate arrangements are made for leave and off duty periods.
- Promote high professional standards of clinical care for patients, both through direct patient care and by the maintenance of continuing professional development.
- Develop close links with General Practitioners operating in the area.
- Exercise the freedom to develop specialist elements of the services to reflect perceived priorities within available resources.
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Clinical duties will include all those duties normally expected of a Consultant in a similar sized Emergency Department in the United Kingdom.
The two Emergency Departments act as a single Emergency Service based on the two sites. The Royal Preston site is designated as the Major Trauma Centre for Lancashire and South Cumbria with #team ED leading the multi-disciplinary trauma team.
Successful applicants will join an extensive team of Middle Grade doctors, Junior Doctors and ACPs providing comprehensive clinical support to the departments. We are now taking ED trainees at ST3 level for part of their Paediatric EM rotation. There is a dedicated, highly skilled nursing workforce including a team of Nurse Clinicians, Emergency Nurse Practitioners and Physiotherapists providing extensive cover.
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The ED consultant rota is annualised allowing flexibility and options for home-life balance. SPA activity will be written in the contract for simulation training as well as that required for revalidation. Any further SPA would be negotiable to enhance the candidate’s expertise and interests. There are numerous opportunities to be involved with education at undergraduate level and multi-disciplinary post graduate as well as research and audit.
The consultant body is encouraged to take the lead at Directorate level and we have a good reputation for our governance procedures. For those with children both hospital sites have a nursery.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Nicola Fallon
- Job title: Clinical Director
- Email address: nicola.fallon@lthtr.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 01772 525687
Informal enquiries and requests to visit the Hospitals are welcome and should be made, following shortlisting, with Dr Steve Canty Medical Director and Silas Nicholls, Chief Executive (01772) 522692.
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