Job overview

Working Full time: 40 hours per week

The post will offer candidates a unique opportunity to train in a busy and supportive environment. The ED has an enthusiastic and dedicated consultant team with a wide range of backgrounds and specialist interests. The department has a good track record for non-career middle grades moving on into training posts. The posts are supported by educational teaching, learning and assessment opportunities equivalent to those on national programmes. The successful applicant will be assigned a consultant mentor.

The Trust runs ALS, ATLS, and APLS courses on a regular basis. 

These middle grade posts will join a dedicated team with an established track record for implementing change to improve patient care.

The Emergency Department at COCH is one of the major accident units for Cheshire, Merseyside and Flintshire. The Department deals with the full range of surgical, medical and paediatric emergencies and has full back-up (Radiology, Pathology and Anaesthetics), together with the normal range of in-patient specialties found within an acute hospital. There is excellent and timely access to CT and interventional radiology on a 24 hour basis, with PACS links to regional centres to facilitate image transfer and prompt onward referral, as needed. There is access to Consultant advice 24/7, with Consultant presence in the Department until midnight, and a guaranteed 30 minute response time for on-call emergency attendance.

Main duties of the job

The duties will cover the whole range of clinical responsibilities, working equally in both Minors and Majors, working closely with the ANP and ENP teams and providing them with senior support.

You will be expected to provide a significant personal commitment to the assessment, treatment and disposal of patients attending the Emergency Department. 

You will be supporting 24/7 middle grade cover for the department. There is consultant presence from 0900hrs until midnight 7 days per week. Between the hours of midnight and 0800hrs the evening consultant provides ongoing support on an ‘on-call’ basis.

You will be accountable to the consultants in Emergency Medicine. You will be responsible for carrying outward rounds on the Emergency Assessment Unit from time to time on a shared basis with the other middle grade and senior doctors. You will be expected to take a lead role in the management of acutely ill and trauma patients. 

The post holder will be expected to prioritise and time-manage effectively in relation to the needs and activity of the department utilising the staffing of the department and seeking senior advice where necessary. 
You will supervise more junior doctors, and also medical students will and take an active role in their education, both formal and informal.  This will enable the post holder to actively develop their leadership skills.

Working for our organisation

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:

•    The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds.
•    Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility.
•    Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.

The Trust employs over 5916 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 411,000. This includes 361,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.