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.

The successful applicant will work as an integral member of our multidisciplinary team, comprising of nursing staff, advanced clinical practitioners, junior and senior clinical fellows along with our substantive Consultant Physicians in Emergency Medicine and Urgent Care.

You will have the opportunity to manage a range of acute medical problems and to develop your clinical leadership within these areas. This includes developing urgent care pathways to complement those already in operation and play a key role in the interface between primary and secondary care.

Main Duties

Clinical Responsibilities Will Include

• 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 (ACP’s).
• To actively participate in continuing professional development (CPD) and departmental meetings.
• Supporting Professional Activities in accordance with the Trust Framework, with at least a minimum of 1.0 SPA included in the core 10PA timetable. Additional SPA or DCC time may be commissioned in line with the skills of the successful candidate and changing requirements of the service.

Please see the attached full job description for an example weekly timetable.

Essential Person Specification Requirements

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

• Practices within the professional values and behaviours 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 i.e. knowledge, skills, and behaviours relevant to the role setting and scope
• Clinically evaluates and manages a patient, formulating a prioritised differential diagnosis, initiating an appropriate management plan, and reviewing and adjusting this depending on the outcomes of treatment
• Manages the difficulties of dealing with patients with complexity and uncertainty in the care of patients; employing expertise and clinical decision-making skills of a senior and independent/ autonomous practitioner.
• Critically reflects on own competence, understands own limits, and seeks help when required
• Communicates effectively and is able to share decision-making with patients, relatives, and carers; treats patients as individuals, promoting a person-centred approach to their care, including self-management.
• Respects patients’ dignity, ensures confidentiality, and appropriate communication where potentially difficult or where barriers exist e.g. using interpreter and making adjustments for patients with communication difficulties
• 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 around mental capacity and 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 license to practice
• Full Registration and a Licence to Practice with the General Medical Council OR be eligible for the same and have this prior to commencement
• Previous experience working independently within an NHS emergency, urgent, or acute care setting.
• Experience work effectively in a busy, high-pressure clinical environment.
• A minimum of 12 years full-time postgraduate training (or equivalent gained either part-time or through Less Than Full Time Training) since obtaining a primary medical qualification
• A minimum of 6 years’ experience in the Specialty Doctor/SAS Grade or equivalent in Emergency Medicine specialty or similar specialty
• Eligibility to work in the UK