Senior Locally Employed Doctor in Emergency Medicine

at  Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Applicants are invited to apply for the Junior Locally Employed Doctor position in our Emergency Department. Candidates must be eligible for their own GMC registration - MFT cannot support GMC Sponsorship for candidates who are offered permanent vacancies.
Applicants will join a full rota team covering Manchester Royal Infirmary which is a Major Trauma Centre with linked helipad that has a focus on penetrating trauma.
Successful applicants will have similar opportunities to our senior emergency medicine trainees including a dedicated educational supervisor, work-place-based assessments for portfolio, access to training including in house simulation, audit, delivery of medical student teaching, journal club, POCUS training, virtual case discussion and learning. We are a department with ongoing research activity and research opportunities with excellent academic leadership.
Your application will not be considered if the Application Form is not fully completed or if you do not meet the essential criteria.
The job entails being part of a 24-hour rota, covering, days, nights, and weekends. You will be expected to assess patients, make primary diagnosis, and initiate emergency treatment. Emergency medicine consultants cover the shop floor from 08:00 to 00:00 with 5-minute major trauma consultant response outside of these hours. The rota is 2016 T&C’s compliant.
The workload will involve seeing minor injuries, ambulatory patients, major, resus and major trauma cases and covering our Clinical Decision Unit. Our department is a busy inner-city institution and provides cover for a diverse population with specific medical and social needs providing an interesting and varied case mix.
Primarily, trainees’ duties will be to provide, safe, effective, and timely care to the patients presenting to and under the continuing care of the Emergency Department. You will also be providing guidance to junior colleagues where appropriate and eventually as your role develops you will progress to streaming patients, directing the workforce, and managing the department. Trainees will be expected to act according to GMC guidance on good medical practice and adhere to Trust policies on infection control, sickness reporting, risk management etc.
MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘ Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the ‘NHS England’ website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk .
We’re looking forward to hearing from you

Please refer the Job description for details