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NHS Tayside has a vacancy for a full-time Consultant (8:2) in Emergency Medicine
Applications are invited to work within NHS Tayside’s Emergency Medicine service which sees 75,000 new patients per annum across Tayside and North East Fife. NHS Tayside has developed an Unscheduled Care system that proactively manages unscheduled ED attendance thereby minimising surges in demand and maintaining good patient flow, enabling consistent achievement of the national 4 hour standard
This is supported by a system of direct admissions by GP referred patients to acute medical and surgical receiving areas therefore this group do not stop in the ED unless requiring resuscitation. The consultant team play an active role in resuscitating, reviewing and redirection of appropriate patients. The department is known for its interest in pre-hospital primary retrieval work via the Tayside Trauma Team and Ninewells Hospital is the location of the East Region Major Trauma Centre of the four major trauma centre Scottish Trauma Network
The Emergency Medicine service delivers high quality undergraduate education with the University of Dundee Medical School and has an active interest in postgraduate education, audit, research and Quality Improvement
The appointee will join a dynamic and proactive team of Emergency Medicine Consultants
The post holder will be based in Ninewells Hospital with duties in Perth Royal Infirmary
Applicants must be on the Specialist Register or be within 6 months of the anticipated award of CCT or CESR(CP) at the time of interview for the post
Interested applicants are encouraged to contact Dr Julie Ronald, Consultant and Clinical Lead in Emergency Medicine, Ninewells Hospital, telephone 01382 660111 ext 40472
Short-listed applicants will be contacted by email. Please check your emails regularly, including your junk/spam folder
Closing date for receipt of completed application forms: 8 February 2020
Interview Date: 25 March 2020
Reference Number: 013886