Job overview

The role is for a SCF grade level doctor, who has experience in leading a shift in the Emergency Department as a tier 4 clinician.  The job will be providing maternity leave cover.

We offer support for a portfolio pathway and offer secondments to allied specialities for completion of the required competencies for CESR. 

The new appointee will be expected to work with and be supported by the existing ED Consultants to undertake clinical work within the department with an emphasis on the more unwell patients or those requiring more complex procedures. This will involve supervising the junior medical staff and assisting ENPs and providing shop floor teaching where appropriate. Overnight the ED SAS/SCF grade doctors will be expected to run the department independently with the ED Consultant on call from home and assist with juniors’ decision making and to offer advice and support to the Hospital at Night Team (H@NT) when accepting ED referrals. The Trust has Adult/Paediatric Arrest and Trauma Teams.  The Consultants and SAS/SCF grades will be expected to play the leading role when these teams are called to the ED.

Main duties of the job

Salisbury ED currently has a spacious 3 bedded Resus, 14 bedded Majors, 
Paediatric assessment area as well as a newly built minors department. It has 
further plans for redesigning the current work space. 
The Department covers a large geographic area and sees over 48,000 new patients 
per year. It receives the full range of Emergency patients, with Paediatric patients 
making up approximately 25% of the total. Salisbury is a designated Trauma Unit 
linked to UHS as our nearest MTC.  There is a large military population utilising the 
Salisbury Plain Training Area and living in the area with their young families and this 
is set to grow over the next 2 years with a new military town being developed. 
There is an experienced and supportive cohort of nurses with a Band 6 in charge of 
each shift and 3 ENPs through the day until midnight responsible for the Minors 
area. 
The hospital has all DGH specialities including acute medicine based on AMU, 
paediatrics and daytime interventional cardiology.  Overnight surgical work is 
covered by a pooled junior doctor rota supported by critical care outreach.  
Anaesthetics, medicine, O&G and paediatrics all have registrar presence overnight. 
Salisbury ED is recognised as one of the top performing ED’s in the region and 
benchmark in the top 10 nationally against a number of clinical and non-clinical 
standards

Working for our organisation

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we’re driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated “Good” by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service.  We think working here is pretty rewarding.  You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme. 
 
Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything.  With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible.  Don’t just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk