Home, community, hospital

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.

Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.

We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.

Our Trust values

These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.

Job overview

 Join our Emergency Medicine Consultant Team!

Consultant in Emergency Medicine 11 PAs

The consultant will be part of and contribute to an existing motivated, driven and enthusiastic team of ED consultants providing clinical excellence for patients whilst providing a friendly and richly rewarding environment for doctors in training.

Main duties of the job

There are three main clinical elements and three supporting professional activity elements to the post of Consultant in Emergency Medicine namely:

Element 1: Consultant in Charge of the ED

Element 2: ED Consultant (not acting as EPiC)

Element 3: On-Call

Working for our organisation

Kingston Hospital is a busy, flourishing District General Hospital with approximately 450 beds. The Emergency Department (ED) opened in December 2001 and now sees approximately 125,000 patients per year, with a varied and diverse case mix. The hospital supports some 320,000 people in the surrounding area including the boroughs of Kingston, Richmond, Roehampton, Putney, and East Elmbridge. The Department has had considerable capital investment in the last 10 years including a six bedded Clinical Decisions Unit (CDU), Resuscitation area expansion from 5 to 7 cubicles, new collocated Urgent Treatment Centre, expansion of Majors area from 16 to 20 cubicles, mental health assessment unit, co-located SDEC and new Consultant Office space.

The Division, Executive Team and incumbent ED Consultant body are committed to transforming urgent and emergency care services in the Hospital and are looking for an ambitious and motivated individual join us and to help shape and drive the provision of outstanding emergency care.