Home, community, hospital
Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.
Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.
We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.
Our Trust values
These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.
- Compassionate: We provide care with kindness, understanding, and empathy for all.
- Inclusive: We embrace diversity and respect the unique contributions of every individual.
- Collaborative: We foster teamwork across all levels, working together and with our partners to deliver the best outcomes.
- Inspiring: We are committed to continuous improvement and excellence in patient care, staff development, and innovation.
Join our Emergency Medicine Consultant Team!
Consultant in Emergency Medicine 8 PAs on a Maternity Cover Fixed Term Basis
The locum consultant will be part of and contribute to an existing motivated, driven and enthusiastic team of ED consultants providing clinical excellence for patients whilst providing a friendly and richly rewarding environment for doctors in training.
There are three main clinical elements and three supporting professional activity elements to the post of Consultant in Emergency Medicine namely:
Element 1: Consultant in Charge of the ED
Element 2: ED Consultant (not acting as EPiC)
Element 3: On-Call
Kingston Hospital is a busy, flourishing District General Hospital with approximately 450 beds. The Emergency Department (ED) opened in December 2001 and now sees approximately 125,000 patients per year, with a varied and diverse case mix. The hospital supports some 320,000 people in the surrounding area including the boroughs of Kingston, Richmond, Roehampton, Putney, and East Elmbridge. The Department has had considerable capital investment in the last 10 years including a six bedded Clinical Decisions Unit (CDU), Resuscitation area expansion from 5 to 7 cubicles, new collocated Urgent Treatment Centre, expansion of Majors area from 16 to 20 cubicles, mental health assessment unit, co-located SDEC and new Consultant Office space.
The Division, Executive Team and incumbent ED Consultant body are committed to transforming urgent and emergency care services in the Hospital and are looking for an ambitious and motivated individual join us and to help shape and drive the provision of outstanding emergency care.
We welcome conversations about flexible working from day one, including options such as adjusted hours, compressed hours and other arrangements. If flexibility matters to you, please talk to us - we’ll be happy to explore what’s possible for the role and the service.
Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
DBS: Kingston Hospital NHS Trust is committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.
Salary:
For applicants without prior NHS experience at the same pay band or higher, the salary will start at the lower value within the advertised range.
