Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine

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Background

This post is part of a strategy to provide increased consultant cover from 08:00 – 01:30 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 project’s
• 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

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 in the future. 

 The Emergency Department rota is annualised therefore there is not a weekly pattern. Annual, professional and study leave is allocated as per new Consultant contract, and generates a shift total over rota cycles of 16 weeks. On call duties will be roughly 1:16 depending on vacancy factor and the number of consultants working more than 10 PA’s. The rota is based on our funded establishment of 42WTE Consultants. 

 Flexible working will be considered. The department works on an annualised rota providing flexibility.  

The appointment will be whole time.  Any Consultant who is unable for personal reasons, to work whole time, will be eligible to be considered for the post.  If such a person is appointed, modification of the job content will be discussed on a personal basis in consultation with Consultant colleagues.

Work Programme: 

Outline Job plan- Example only 

Given our current establishment levels, it is anticipated that there will be opportunity for the successful candidate to contract for additional programmed activities in the Emergency Department on a temporary basis, up to the maximum level consistent with the Working Time Regulations (i.e. 12 PA’s maximum), through discussion and mutual agreement. 

This post will be an  RCPCH approved post with a job plan designed to deliver high quality care, leadership and teaching. 

Your normal place of work will be as discussed at interview and will be confirmed in Section 1 of your contract but you may be required to work in other locations of the Trust. In particular, flexibility is required across the three main Hospital sites (Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester General Hospital, Glenfield Hospital).  If your initial location is based at one of these sites, excess travel reimbursement will not apply for a permanent/temporary change to base.

Education: Teaching and Training

All Consultants are expected to contribute to teaching and training of undergraduate students and postgraduate trainees as part of their role as a Consultant in UHL.

Consultants will normally have undergraduate medical students placed with them during clinical duties and are expected to teach alongside clinical service work. Similarly, Consultants will normally be involved in clinical supervision of postgraduate trainees working within UHL.

Medical students based at the University of Leicester follow a standard 5 year programme.  The teaching of undergraduate students in UHL reflects the Divisional structure of the Trust.  Undergraduate medical students are taught by UHL throughout the medical course from years 1 to 5.  Both ward and outpatient based clinical teaching, as well as tutorial and lecture style teaching is undertaken.

Some Consultants will choose to take on additional undergraduate and/or postgraduate education and training responsibilities. This activity will be specific, identifiable, evidenced, recognised and appraised.  Such additional teaching and training activity will be recognised within their SPA allowance. 

Those undertaking specifically agreed additional undergraduate teaching duties recognised as part of the SPA allowance (up to 0.5SPA) within their job plan may be recognised as Clinical Teachers http://www2.le.ac.uk/colleges/medbiopsych/people/documents/clinical-teachers-guidance;https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/msce/clinical-teaching/clinical-teaching .  This teaching can occur in different settings. The clinical teacher will be expected to show evidence of satisfactory performance in this role at appraisal.

Enhanced undergraduate duties will include acting as examiners in medical school assessments, providing occasional seminar and small group teaching, lecturing & other Phase 1 teaching within the medical curricula, in addition to individual supervision of clinical students attached to them. 

Those who have an additional significant responsibility as a block or clinical education lead within their DCC time are also considered for the award of the title of honorary senior lecturer.

Enhanced postgraduate duties will include acting as an Educational supervisor for Foundation or Specialty trainee, UHL Divisional Education governance lead, Contributing to recognised postgraduate-teaching courses in UHL, e.g. Specialty Training programmes or involvement in recruitment of trainees, e.g. interviews for Specialty training, recruitment to Foundation programmes.