Job summary
Are you an experienced Emergency Medicine doctor looking for a supportive department, excellent work-life balance, and real career development opportunities?

Join the award-winning Emergency Department at Yeovil Hospital, where you'll work alongside a highly experienced multidisciplinary team in one of the South West's best-performing Emergency Departments. The department manages approximately 66,000 patients annually, including both adult and paediatric emergency care, and has a strong reputation for clinical excellence, innovation and staff development.

Why Join Us?

• Flexible annualised job plans and self-rostering
• Dedicated professional development programme
• Funded ePortfolio and locally sponsored life support courses
• Strong CESR and career progression support
• Excellent consultant presence and supervision
• Modern, well-equipped Emergency Department
• Beautiful Somerset location close to the Jurassic Coast, Dorset, Bath, Bristol and London

Main duties of the job
We are seeking a motivated Specialty Doctor in Emergency Medicine to join our growing team.

This role offers the opportunity to work in a busy, high-performing Emergency Department while developing advanced Emergency Medicine skills within a supportive and educational environment.

The successful candidate will:

• Assess, investigate and manage patients presenting to the Emergency Department
• Lead trauma and resuscitation cases when required
• Support and supervise junior doctors and multidisciplinary colleagues
• Participate in quality improvement, audit and clinical governance activities
• Contribute to teaching and training programmes across the department
• Help maintain excellent standards of patient care and operational performance

About us
At Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, we're committed to supporting our employees with a range of benefits designed to enhance your professional and personal life. We offer:

• Flexible working options to help you balance work and life
• NHS pension scheme for long-term financial security
• Generous annual leave allowance to recharge and relax
• A strong focus on career development to help you grow and achieve your potential

Additionally, you'll gain access to our Blue Light Card, unlocking exclusive discounts on shopping, dining, and leisure activities, as well as NHS-specific perks to support you both inside and outside of work.

We are proud to foster a diverse, skilled, and inclusive workforce, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds.

Why Somerset?
Somerset offers the perfect blend of idyllic countryside, outstanding areas of natural beauty, and breathtaking coastlines, with vibrant cities like Bristol, Bath, and Exeter just a short drive away - and only two hours to London.

The region is home to excellent educational facilities, and with affordable housing compared to other parts of the country, it's a great place to build both your career and your future.

Somerset truly has it all - the peaceful countryside and cosmopolitan city life, with something for everyone to enjoy.

Job responsibilities

• Provide excellent direct clinical care for patients presenting to the ED, while working to maintain operational standards.
• Be responsible for the initial assessment, management and discharge or referral of patients to specialist teams.
• Provide timely and effective review of those patients initially assessed by the post-holder (or handed over by junior or Consultant colleagues).
• Provide clinical advice and support to the one junior clinicians and nursing staff on the management of individual patients and ensure appropriate prioritisation of patient care.
• Assume the role of Trauma Team Leader when the Trauma team is activated.
• Assume the role of Team Leader for cardiac arrests occurring in Emergency Department.
• Respond to a major incident call out and deliver clinical care in accordance with the Trust's Major Incident Plan.
• Be responsible, with the Nursing Shift Leader, for efficient floor management including deployment of junior medical staff.
• Ensure that accurate, timely and sufficiently comprehensive information is communicated to our patients, their carers and General Practitioners. This includes the clinical coding of every patient.
• Liaise with colleagues within the Department, specialist teams providing inpatient care, the Clinical Site Practitioners, the Psychiatric Liaison Team, Rapid Response Service and the statutory, voluntary and other bodies involved in the provision of patient care within the community
• Review pathology and imaging reports and initiate appropriate action as required.
• Participate in the Clinical Governance role of the Department, including quality improvement, risk management and the investigation of formal complaints and incidents.
• Active participation in departmental teaching

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Primary Medical Degree (e.g. MBBS / MBChB or equivalent).
• Full Registration with the GMC and hold a licence to practice at time of applying.
• ALS/ACLS - Current
• ATLS/APLS/PALS/EPLS- or have arranged a place on a course.
• Evidence of commitment to continuing Professional Development --willingness to undertake relevant courses

Desirable

• MRCEM or equivalent
• Any of the FRCEM exams
• MIMMS/ STAR

Experience
Essential

• Minimum of 4 years' experience postgraduate with 2 years in Emergency Medicine and evidence of working currently at SAS/ST3 level or above in NHS for minimum of 1 year.

Desirable

• Exposure to Emergency Medicine (A&E) in a specialist training programme or equivalent

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Details
Date posted: 21 October 2026
Pay scheme: Hospital medical and dental staff
Grade: Specialty Doctor
Salary: £63,696 to £102,689 a year
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working, Annualised hours
Reference number: 184-OL-MED-MED-5237

Employer details
Employer name: Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Yeovil District Hospital, Higher Kingston, Yeovil, Somerset, BA21 4AT, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.somersetft.nhs.uk/

For questions about the job, contact:
Hiring Manager: Emma Houseman, emma.houseman@somersetft.nhs.uk

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