Specialist Doctor in Emergency Medicine

Specialist Doctor in Emergency Medicine

University Hospital Monklands

This is your chance to become part of a dedicated team committed to providing care that is patient-centred, safe and clinically effective.  However, it wont just be the health of our patients that will improve when you join us, this will be a move that will benefit you as an individual.  Our EM Consultant team use an online self-roster system set several months in advance to optimise flexible working and work-life balance.

Lanarkshire offers the best of both worlds, a quiet county with excellent transport links, putting it half an hour from Glasgow and Edinburgh and within easy travelling distance of all the Central Belt and the Highlands has to offer.  With a choice of affordable housing in a wide range of urban and rural locations, you can enjoy an excellent quality of life.  All this means youll find it easy to leave the challenges of the Emergency Department at work.  

NHS Lanarkshire is supportive of applications from individuals with well-developed ideas for improving services and able to demonstrate a commitment to quality improvement, patient safety (including human factors training), Medical Education and Research & Development.

The University of Glasgow enjoys close links with NHS Lanarkshire, and our medical students benefit greatly from the excellent educational opportunities provided by the board in both primary and secondary care.

In UHMs Emergency Department, you will join a forward-thinking, closely integrated department, led by a team of 13 Consultants with a diverse range of experience and interests. The new post of Specialist Doctor will work alongside the Consultants as a Senior Decision Maker in the department.

Operation Flow is the whole system Unscheduled Care improvement programme for NHS Lanarkshire.  As part of that programme we will be encouraging senior Emergency Department clinicians to be engaged in the improvement process and help to support our enhanced triage system and Flow Navigation Centre.

All applicants should have full registration and a licence to practice with the GMC. 

Situated in West Central Scotland, University Hospital Monklands is readily accessed from a wide area, allowing commuting from city, suburban and rural locales. 

Informal enquiries regarding this post will be welcomed by Dr Neil Hughes, Clinical Lead (neil.hughes@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk).  

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   For any application queries, please contact  Lynn Cliens, HR Assistant on or medical.dentalsas@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

    Interview Date: 13th June 2024

In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

*Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential childrens setting/secure unit.

NHS Lanarkshire has a legal obligation to ensure that it does not employ any worker who has not been granted the relevant permission to work in the UK. This permission is without exception granted by the UK Border Agency. We are required to check the entitlement to work in the UK of all prospective employees, regardless of nationality or job category.

Candidates who require a Certificate of Sponsorship can access further information on the UK Border Agencys new points based system that now governs the way individuals from outside the EEA can work in the UK at www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk.

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