Job overview

Have you always wanted to be part of a dynamic, supportive and forward-thinking team? Are you looking forward to achieving the work-life balance you have always dreamed of whilst delivering high quality patient care? 

If the answer to both questions is yes, please come and join the team of Emergency Medicine Consultants at Wexham Park Hospital.

Frimley Health is a leading innovative NHS Foundation Trust serving a population of over 900,000 people with a catchment area across six counties. The Trust has three main sites with Frimley Park Hospital, Wexham Park Hospital in Slough and Heatherwood Hospital in Ascot.

We opened our brand-new state of the art Emergency Department at Wexham Park Hospital in April 2019 creating single room facilities for the patients and expansion in all areas of ED. There is an 8-bed Resuscitation Room, 40-Bed Majors area with integrated radiology facilities including CT scanner and ultrasound facilities dedicated to the diagnostic imaging of emergency patients. We see over 125,000 patients per annum, 25% of whom are managed in our integrated Paediatric ED. A Trust-wide fully integrated EPR, Epic launched in June 2022.

The post-holder will work across all areas of the Emergency Department and will support the main ED Consultant rota including evening, weekend and on-call working. The job plan will be agreed after successful appointment.

Main duties of the job

The Consultant body is friendly and energetic. They are committed to working together as a team to ensure that the Emergency Departments on both sites continue to deliver outstanding, quality, consultant delivered care to their patients and enjoy good working relationships with Speciality colleagues and other directorates.

We provide opportunities and training for staff to develop within their chosen fields.  We believe in investing in our staff and understand that staff satisfaction is inextricably linked to patient satisfaction. We also believe that it’s important that we recruit staff who subscribe to our values as they at the heart of everything we do. These are committed to excellence, working together and facing the future.  The values reflect the commitment we make to the people who use our services and to each other.

You will be joining a team of 16 Consultants, 12 Higher Speciality Trainees, 14 Speciality Doctors/Senior Clinical Fellows, 31 Junior doctors including FY2, GP VTS, ACCS and Junior Clinical Fellows along with 5 ACPs.

Opportunities for cross-site working can be discussed on an individual basis with the Clinical Director.

Any consultant who is unable to work full time for personal reasons will be considered to work part time. If such a person is appointed, modification of the job content will be discussed on an individual basis in consultation with the Clinical Director.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available. 

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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