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Consultant in Emergency Medicine
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.
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.
The University of Glasgow enjoys close links with NHS Lanarkshire, and our medical students benefit greatly from the excellent educational opportunities provided by the board in both primary and secondary care. Those who are or who will be involved in teaching our students, or in any other activity which involves a contribution to teaching, research or scholarship within the University are eligible for honorary status at the University of Glasgow.
Honorary Status Role Holders are entitled to numerous benefits including a University of Glasgow ID card, use of the Library and other facilities, and a University IT account as required for their role. They have access to all courses run by the IT Services on the same basis as members of staff and are also permitted an educational discount when PC equipment is purchased through the IT Services.
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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: 11th September 2024.
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.’
NHS Lanarkshire has a legal obligation to ensure that it does not employ any worker who has not been granted the relevant permission to work in the UK. This permission is without exception granted by the UK Border Agency. We are required to check the entitlement to work in the UK of all prospective employees, regardless of nationality or job category.
Candidates who require a Certificate of Sponsorship can access further information on the UK Border Agency’s new points based system that now governs the way individuals from outside the EEA can work in the UK at www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk.
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