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Consultant in Emergency Medicine – Operation FLOW
NHS Lanarkshire University Hospital Monklands (UHM)
This is your chance to become part of a dedicated team committed to providing care that is patient-centred, safe and clinically effective. However, it won’t just be the health of our patients that will improve when you join us, this will be a move that will benefit you as an individual. Our EM Consultant team use an online self-roster system set several months in advance to optimise flexible working and work-life balance.
Lanarkshire offers the best of both worlds, a quiet county with excellent transport links, putting it half an hour from Glasgow and Edinburgh and within easy travelling distance of all the Central Belt and the Highlands has to offer. With a choice of affordable housing in a wide range of urban and rural locations, you can enjoy an excellent quality of life. All this means you’ll find it easy to leave the challenges of the Emergency Department at work.
NHS Lanarkshire is supportive of applications from individuals with well-developed ideas for improving services and able to demonstrate a commitment to quality improvement, patient safety (including human factors training), Medical Education and Research & Development.
Operation Flow is the unscheduled care improvement strategy with NHS Lanarkshire, with the aim of reducing hospital occupancy and improve patient and staff experience by redistributing resource to key areas within the acute setting. From an Emergency Medicine perspective, we are looking to recruit additional consultants to be part of our team that will aim to deliver enhanced triage in the form of REACT (Rapid Emergency Assessment and Care Team) at the front door of our ED, and senior clinical support to the Flow Navigation Centre (FNC).
The FNC is a command centre hub which takes calls from GPs, NHS 24 and the Scottish Ambulance Service aiming to reduce the need for ED/hospital attendance through alternative pathways, self-care advice or remote video consultation. We have recently trialed a period of ED consultants working within the FNC with huge impact on non-conveyance rates for ambulance patients. Our entire ED consultant team will have the opportunity to deliver part of their job-planned sessions within the FNC or remotely support from their home or office.
In UHM’s Emergency Department, you will join a forward-thinking, closely integrated team of 13 Consultants delivering extended hours care in a busy department. You will face a demanding case-mix across all age ranges with plenty of scope for dual accredited CCT holders particularly in PEM but also ICM and Acute Medicine. It’s an excellent opportunity for a newly trained consultant or an established consultant looking for a new challenge.
All applicants should have full registration and a licence to practice with the GMC.
Join our leading team and you will receive one of the most competitive benefits packages offered by any employer in the UK, including membership of the NHS Pension Scheme.
We would accept applications for full or part-time working.
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Informal enquiries regarding this post will be welcomed by Dr Neil Hughes, Clinical lead Neil.Hughes@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk.
For any application queries, please contact Nicole Hetherington, Senior HR Assistant 01698 754350 or via medical.dentalConsultant@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk
Interview Date: 5th December 2023
In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.
*Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential children’s setting/secure unit.’
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