Job overview

The Paediatric Emergency Department at Royal Manchester Children's Hospital are looking to recruit to our team of resident doctors. The junior tier of the rota is provided by 12 resident doctors including FY2s, GP Trainees and JLEDs.

This post is intended to provide experience for a resident doctor in Paediatric Emergency Medicine at F3/ST1-2 equivalent level. It is especially aimed at those wishing to gain more experience of acute paediatrics in an Emergency Department setting. Candidates may wish to use this job to gain evidence of competences when working towards a CESR or looking to enter training posts.

Main duties of the job

Key responsibilities include:

• To work at the ‘junior’ resident doctor level in the PED
• Initial assessment of children presenting to the PED
• Review children admitted to our CCDU for observation or ongoing treatment
• Complete some administrative tasks including discharge paperwork and following up clinical results
• Deliver ‘shopfloor’ and formalised training to the medical students, other resident doctors and nursing colleagues
• Take part in audit, quality improvement projects and guideline development

Working for our organisation

MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing, and shaping the future of our organisation together.