Job summary
Are you looking for a new role as a Specialist Grade Doctor?

At Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, we are building a forward-thinking Emergency Department where Consultants play a central role in shaping patient flow, service design, and clinical excellence within a modern, integrated care model at St Peter's Hospital.

As a Specialist Grade Doctor in Emergency Medicine, you will take on a key leadership role on the shop floor, delivering high-quality, patient-centred care while driving improvements in flow, efficiency, and safety. You'll join a supportive and expanding Specialist & Consultant body, contributing to service redesign, mentoring junior colleagues, and working collaboratively across specialties to enhance patient pathways. This is a department that actively encourages innovation, supports specialist interests, and invests in the development of its people.

This is more than a clinical role--it's an opportunity to influence strategy, lead meaningful change, and be part of a service with real momentum. With flexible job planning, a strong focus on work-life balance, and a collaborative culture, this post offers the platform to build a fulfilling and impactful career in Emergency Medicine.

We are currently looking for a highly motivated and experienced Emergency Medicine Specialist Grade Doctor to join our Emergency Department on a fixed term contract for 6 months, working 0.8FTE.

Main duties of the job
As a Specialist Grade Doctor in Emergency Medicine at Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, you will deliver care at the highest professional standard, providing expert assessment, diagnosis, investigation, treatment, and management of patients presenting to the Emergency Department. You will take clinical responsibility for patients under your care, ensuring safe and effective decision-making, appropriate escalation, and high-quality handover.

You will provide senior clinical leadership across all areas of the department, supporting patient flow through early assessment, rapid decision-making, and review of potential admissions to ensure timely investigations and disposition. You will work collaboratively with colleagues across specialties, offering prompt clinical opinion where required, and contributing to the development of efficient, patient-centred pathways. A key part of the role will involve working closely with multidisciplinary teams to maintain high standards of care, improve patient experience, and support delivery of departmental and Trust objectives.

You will contribute actively to education, training, and supervision of junior medical staff and the wider multidisciplinary workforce, including undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. You will be expected to participate in audit, clinical governance, and quality improvement activities, ensuring continuous service development and adherence to professional and regulatory standards.

About us
Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow and beyond.

Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Surrey and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey.

We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at ASPH. We are committed to providing continuous professional development and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.

We are expanding our theatres at Ashford Hospital and moving towards this becoming our dedicated elective centre. We want to create a state-of-the-art centre for excellence for planned surgical procedures.

We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:

Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
On-site Nurseries
On-site staff cafes
On-site parking
Support in career development
Salary Sacrifice schemes including wage stream, lease cars, Cycle to Work schemes and home electronics

Adverts may close early, so applicants are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.

For more information about a career at ASPH please visit:www.asph-careers.org

Job responsibilities

• Deliver Clinical, Educational, Managerial Services of the highest professional standard at Specialist Grade/Consultant Level to the Department
• Work with existing consultants and the multi-disciplinary team to provide a high quality well-led service for patients of Ashford & St Peters, including the diagnosis, investigations, treatment and management of patients, in accordance with Trust policies and practices.
• Deliver Direct Clinical Care to patients, through all parts of the Department assisting clinical decision-making and sharing equally in the workload.
• The Consultant team will provide comprehensive senior clinical cover to the Department.
• Prioritising timely assessment of patients
• Consultant cover time required, Consultants will be expected to review all potential admissions and develop rapid assessment triage strategies to ensure early investigations and disposition of patients is achieved
• Have a continuing responsibility for the care of patients in his/her charge, ensuring safe handover as appropriate.
• Engage with medical, nursing, management and all relevant co-workers in the delivery of department objectives: to provide clinical leadership, improve the patient experience; ensure the highest quality clinical care and to contribute to the overall performance of the department.
• Actively participate in and support other staff with education, research, audit and clinical governance activities involving a multi-disciplinary workforce across the department
• Participate in the professional training of the staff in the department, both medical and non-medical, and contribute as required to teaching sessions for other hospital staff as well as undergraduate and postgraduate staff, including supervision of junior medical staff. Teaching and training will require verification of teaching certification
• Support recruitment, appraisal, development and mentoring activities to a multi-disciplinary, multi-professional team.
• Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of clinical pathways and service delivery.
• Undertake any other duties appropriate for a consultant.
• Engage in research, service development, and leadership activities as part of supporting professional activities (SPA)
• Demonstrate strong communication, leadership, and the ability to manage competing demands in a high-pressure environment
• Uphold Trust values, delivering compassionate, inclusive, and high-quality care to all patients

Person Specification

Shortlisting Essential

• Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training (or CCT) by the time of taking up the post or be accredited for inclusion on the General Medical Council's Specialist Register.
• Fully registered with the General Medical Council.

As per Person Specification Criteria Essential

• Accreditation with Emergency Medicine (RCEM).
• Fully registered with the General Medical Council
• Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training (or CCT) by the time of taking up the post or be accredited for inclusion on the General Medical Council's Specialist Register.
• Providing direct clinical care and experience in developing effective and collaborative working relationships
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work constructively in a multidisciplinary team, be flexible and responsive to the needs of colleagues
• Highly skilled in the management and treatment of patients admitted to the specialty.
• Ability to empathise with patients and their families and to treat them with compassion and sensitivity
• Ability to manage competing demands in a busy acute environment and cope and manage own emotions under stress
• Knowledge & awareness of diversity and human rights and the competencies appropriate to your role to support their diverse needs and human rights.
• Medical and non-medical undergraduate and postgraduate teaching experience
• Evidence of research, particularly in collaboration with other clinicians and willingness to continue participate in research
• Evidence of previous active participation in leadership and management activities
• Experience of working in an Emergency Department

As per Person Specification Criteria Desirable

• Leading a change or innovation in the workplace with a multi-disciplinary team
• Evidence of ability to continuously improve patient and staff experience, also demonstrate the Trust Values Based Behaviours at Exemplary level
• Postgraduate certificate in education
• Experience of managing budgets and staff
• Change management techniques
• Management qualification
• Ability to supervise postgraduate research
• Publication in peer reviewed journals

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).