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United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
About
The United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (ULTH) is one of the largest trusts in the country. Through four main hospitals we provide a comprehensive range of hospital-based medical, surgical, paediatric, obstetric and gynaecological services to the 700,000 people of Lincolnshire.
We provide a wide range of healthcare services delivered by 8,600 highly trained staff and volunteers. Our services cost over £400m each year to provide and we invest around £18m each year in improving our clinical services by replacing and upgrading our medical equipment, modernising our estate and facilities and improving our information and technology infrastructure. In an average year, we treat more than 180,000 A&E patients, nearly half a million outpatients and almost 100,000 inpatients.
Contact
- Address
- Recruitment Service
- Lincoln County Hospital
- Greetwell Road
- Lincoln
- Lincolnshire
- LN2 5QY
- Contact Number
- (01522) 597736
Trust Grade Specialty Registrar (ST3+) Doctor in Emergency Medicine
Accepting applications until: 07-Nov-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 07-Nov-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Lincoln County Hospital
- Address
- Greetwell Road
- Town
- Lincoln
- Postcode
- LN2 5QY
- Major / Minor Region
- Lincolnshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week (Plus Role Enhancements)
Salary
- Salary
- £65,048 - £73,992 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS Medical & Dental: MT04)
Specialty
- Main area
- Emergency Medicine
We recognise that outstanding care can only be delivered through our people. We want to attract people who can help us deliver our vision. We want in return to help people achieve what they wish in their careers in the NHS at ULTH.
We are always keen to welcome highly skilled, committed and compassionate individuals to our hospitals – people who put patients at the heart of everything they do and are ready to help us achieve our vision.
Our values guide everything we do. They are:
- Patient-centred – Putting patients at the heart of everything we do, listening and responding to their needs and wishes.
- Safety – Following ULTH and professional guidelines. Speaking up to make sure patients and staff are safe from harm.
- Excellence – Striving to be the best that we can be. Innovating and learning from others.
- Compassion – Caring for patients and their loved ones in ways we would want for our friends and family.
- Respect – Behaving and using language that demonstrates respect and courtesy to others. Zero tolerance to bullying, inequality, prejudice and discrimination.
If you believe in them too, then you are ready to join the ULTH team.
We’ve taken great pride in building working environments where staff always feel valued, cared for and part of a team. Without doubt this is a challenging yet very rewarding job that is at the centre of health and care in Lincolnshire - making a positive difference to our patients.
Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £710 million (22/23) and we employ nearly 8,600 people.
Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement – “Outstanding Care Personally Delivered” – stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.
We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.
Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’. Our rating for caring remained as ‘Good’.
This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.
So, what is in it for you?
- Flexible working: Depending on the needs of your role, we will consider requests for flexible and/or part-time working for whatever reason you should need it. We recognise flexible working will not look the same for everyone, because it depends on the nature of the role and the needs of the individual.
Types of flexibility could include:
- Part-time - less than 37.5 hours per week.
- Off-site/remote working - working from home or other sites for part or all the week.
- Compressed hours – usually full-time hours but over fewer days or shifts.
- Staggered hours – having different start and finish times.
- Set shift patterns – to allow for predictability
- NHS Pension: A generous and flexible pension scheme with contributions from us as your employer fully protected against inflation and guaranteed by the government
- Annual Leave: Starting at 27 days a year, rising to 33 days after 10 years plus eight bank holidays (for staff covered by Agenda for Change) For Medical Workforce positions (Consultant and Specialty Doctor), the full-time entitlement commences from 32 days per annum. For all other Medical Workforce positions, the full-time entitlement commences from 27 days per annum.
- Bank working: The chance to work extra hours at enhanced rates and we will pay you weekly too, ideal if your income needs a quick boost.
In addition, there is more.
- Family & Childcare: Including on-site nurseries at Lincoln County Hospital and Pilgrim Hospital Boston, maternity, paternity, adoption & shared parental leave following a set period of employment.
- Health & Wellbeing: including counselling, mental health first aid, physiotherapy, eye tests.
- Learning & Development including Lincolnshire Talent Academy, leadership training, medical education, clinical education, Lincolnshire clinical research
- Financial support and benefits including Cycle2Work, car lease scheme, home electronics. Free on-site parking and free tea and coffee and the ability to save and borrow through your salary.
- Rewards & Recognition including staff awards, long service awards, retirement awards, examples of excellence and staff lottery.
Enjoy a better quality of life in one of the UK’s most welcoming counties. Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire welcomes everyone. Discover a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life. Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more.
Job overview
Do you have a passion for Emergency Medicine? Do you have your MRCEM qualification or equivalent?
Here at United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals Trust NHS Trust, we could have the role for you. We are committed to producing a medical workforce that is motivated, happy, healthy and diverse. Emergency Medicine Specialty Registrars are an integral part of our workforce strategy.
Working in our Emergency Department and across our UEC ie SDEC.
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Lincoln County Hospital Lincoln County Hospital is situated in the uphill area of the city, close to the Cathedral. It is a large purpose-built modern District General Hospital, which provides a wide range of specialist clinical services. It has a complement of 557 beds.
There is a Clinical Decisions Unit (CDU) which is located within the footfall of the Emergency Department at Lincoln and has the capacity to take 2 x trolley spaces, 2 x cohort spaces and 6 x chairs. This area is staffed by 2 x Registered Nurses and 1 x HCSW, 24 hours a day. All patients remain under the care of the Emergency Department.
Roles and Responsibilities
Clinical duties:
The primary responsibilities of the post holder during their clinical shifts include:
• Assessment, management, referral and discharge of patients presenting to the Emergency Departments and Clinical Decision Units, seeking support where appropriate from senior clinical members.
• Collaborating with all members of the Emergency Department team and colleagues from other departments.
• Communicating effectively with patients and colleagues; and
• Performing Rapid Assessment and Triage of patients who self-present and those brought by ambulance
Working for our organisation
You can expect a warm welcome at our United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (ULTH) our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. We appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including access to the NHS Pension Scheme to which you and the Trust contrite. Alongside this there are extensive training development opportunities. We promote a healthy work life balance, provide an Occupational Health Service to support you at work and have a number of NHS discounts available either directly through ourselves or online through NHS Discounts. As part of our recruitment process we can tell you more about our benefits package and you will see that we offer everything you would expect and more!
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
In undertaking this role the post holder is expected at all times to behave in accordance with the Trust values which demonstrate a commitment to the delivery of high quality services to patients. This will be in accordance with agreed objectives, targets, quality standards, controls and resource constraints.
United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults, both as service users and visitors to Trust premises. All staff have a responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and adults. The post holder, in conjunction with their line manager, will be responsible for ensuring they undertake the appropriate level of training relevant to their individual role and responsibilities and that they are aware of and work within the safeguarding policies of the Trust.
The post holder is expected to treat patients, service users and carers with courtesy, care and compassion at all times, treating each person as an individual by offering a personalised service. Trust staff will adopt behaviours and attitudes which promote, supports and respects privacy and dignity in accordance with the Trust Dignity policies and dignity in care pledges. Staff are expected to challenge poor practice in relation to dignity and treat each other with respect.
ULTH recognises that everyone is different, and values the unique contribution that individual experiences, knowledge and skills make in delivering quality healthcare and becoming a model employer. We are committed to transforming our organisational culture by actively committing to implementing the Trust Single Equality Scheme, and other policies, such as the Dignity in Care policy and the Dignity at Work policy. We will continue to promote equality and challenge discrimination in all service provision, recognising and meeting the needs of the diverse communities we serve. We will strive to provide an environment in which people want to work and to be a model employer leading in good employment practice.
We are a People Promise exemplar site, for more information on the NHS People Promise - NHS England » Our NHS People Promise
As a responsible employer ULTH would encourage staff wishing to join the Trust to take up the COVID vaccination as this continues to remain the best line of defence against COVID19
Please note that we do not accept CVs.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, ULTH reserves the right to close this advert prior to the closing date.
No DBS fees to pay: Successful candidates will have DBS applications applied for & paid by ULTH where applicable. There is no requirement to reimburse ULTH for this cost.
We welcome applications from the UK Armed Forces Community. On the application form please tick “Member of the Armed Forces Community” if the below applies to you.
You are:
- A Service Leaver
- A Veteran
- A Military Reserve
- A Cadet Force Adult Volunteer
- Partner/Spouse of those Serving NB: partners/spouses are only eligible whilst their partner is serving in the Armed Forces
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Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Do you have full GMC registration
- Do you have MRCEM Primary and SBA completed (UK) or equivalent
- Do you have Advanced Life Support
- Do you have Advanced Trauma Life Support
- Do you have European Paediatric Advanced Life Support
Experience
Essential criteria
- Are you Clinical Training and experience equivalent to that of an ST3+ Doctor
- Are you currently working at Registrar level i.e. able to lead the department as a senior decision-maker
- Can you evidence in your application you are able to perform medical procedures expected e.g. fascia iliaca block haematoma block, common fracture reductions and manipulations, wound management,
- Are you able to undertake initial assessment of cases presenting to the ED
Desirable criteria
- Do you have previous experience in Emergency Medicine at ST3 or equivalent level
- Have you ideally at least 1 year clinical experience in the UK/NHS
Management And Administrative Experience
Essential criteria
- Can you evidence you active involvement in Audit and Quality Improvement
- Do you have previous experience of working with other professionals working in both acute and community services
Desirable criteria
- Do you have experience of leading audit/ quality improvement projects
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Vikki Smith
- Job title
- Operational Services Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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