Specialty Doctor/ST Equivalent - Emergency Department

Overview

In this role you help deliver high-quality emergency and unscheduled care for Dorchester’s population, as part of the ED team. You diagnose, initiate treatment, and organise ongoing management for major and minor emergencies, including trauma. You contribute to clinical governance, supervise and teach junior staff, and participate in audit and quality improvement. The role sits in a trauma-focused unit with strong multidisciplinary support, offering a development-focused environment with study time and funding.

Pay / Benefits

• study time and funding available
• annual mandatory training obligatory
• trauma-focused department with close air-ambulance integration

Responsibilities

• Diagnose and initiate treatment for ED presentations and arrange further management
• Manage major and minor trauma and other medical emergencies
• Contribute to clinical governance and supervise junior doctors
• Teach junior doctors, medical students, and nursing staff
• Engage in mandatory training, audit, and quality improvement activities
• Collaborate in a trauma-focused unit with multidisciplinary support
• Participate in on-call and rotation patterns to ensure ED coverage
• Support the hospital’s trauma and stroke services and use dedicated resources such as the helipad nearby

Key requirements

• ALS, ATLS, APLS or equivalent
• Full GMC Registration with licence to practice
• Four years full-time postgraduate training (or equivalent)
• At least two years in a relevant specialty or fixed-term specialty trainee
• Recent and significant emergency medicine experience in the UK at F2 or SHO level
• Ability to make safe assessments and treatment decisions for core EM presentations
• Clinical skills including cannulation, ABGs, catheterisation; ED ultrasound, wound management, chest drain placement
• Capacity to work independently in ED and communicate effectively with staff and patients
• Desirable: FRCEM/MCEM/MRCEM
• Desirable: evidence of teaching, QI or audit project work
• Desirable: knowledge of NHS plan/modernisation agenda and strategic direction of the Trust
• Desirable: current UK professional registration and DBS/Disclosure checks

• Effective communication with staff and patients
• Teamwork and collaboration
• Teaching and mentoring
• ED ultrasound
• Wound management
• Cannulation

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