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NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is one of the largest healthcare systems in the UK employing around 40,000 staff in a wide range of clinical and non-clinical professions and job roles. We deliver acute hospital, primary, community and mental health care services to a population of over 1.15 million and a wider population of 2.2 million when our regional and national services are included.
The shift pattern for this post is on call.
This is a Fixed term post for 6 months
The Emergency Medical Retrieval Service (EMRS) is seeking to recruit doctors within three years, or following the recent award of their CCT in Emergency Medicine, Anaesthesia, or Intensive Care Medicine. Candidates must have at least 6 months experience in anaesthesia.
2 posts are available:
- 6 month post starting August 2026
- 6 month post starting February 2027
The EMRS has teams based in Glasgow (EMRS West) and Aberdeen (EMRS North), providing a Retrieval and Pre-Hospital Critical Care response Scotland-wide. This is an opportunity for senior trainees to work as part of the EMRS West team in Glasgow.
The Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) is commissioned by the Scottish Government Health Department (SGHD) to operate the Scottish specialist transfer and retrieval (ScotSTAR) service. ScotSTAR delivers neonatal, paediatric and adult retrieval. The emergency medical retrieval service (EMRS) is the adult component of the service.
Emergency Medical Retrieval Service
The aim of the EMRS is to provide equity of access to life saving care irrespective of the patient’s location.
Experienced clinicians are available 24/7 to provide assistance to remote and rural clinicians. Critical care teams are deployed by air or land to a rural healthcare setting to resuscitate, stabilise and transfer patients with critical illness to definitive care.
The team also provides a pre-hospital critical care service for seriously injured patients, by helicopter or fast response car. The EMRS is tasked to such incidents by staff based on the dedicated trauma desk in the west of Scotland ambulance control centre (ACC).
You must have secured agreement from your educational supervisor and specialty TPD before application.
Informal contact: Dr Steven Rainey EMRS Consultant on Steven.rainey2@nhs.scot
Details on how to contact the Recruitment Service and the Recruitment Process: Information for candidates
This post may close early to the volume of response. Please submit your application form as soon as possible.
Due to the volume of applications that we receive, we will not be able to provide shortlisting feedback.
Applicants who have not undertaken a UK foundation programme within 3.5 years of the advertised post start date, will be asked to submit a Certificate of Readiness to Enter Specialty Training (CREST). The CREST form must be completed by a consultant who has worked with you for a minimum continuous period of three months whole-time equivalent wholly within the 3.5 years prior to the advertised post start date for which you are applying.
Due to the volume of applications that we receive, we will not be able to provide shortlisting feedback.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde- NHS Scotland encourages applications from all sections of the community. We promote a culture of inclusion across the organisation and are proud of the diverse workforce we have.
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