Consultant in Accident and Emergency
Job Description
Job summary
This post includes a welcome incentive and relocation package for the successful candidate. Terms and conditions apply.
Interviews for this post are scheduled for Thursday 06th August 2026, with a pre-interview engagement day on Wednesday 05th August 2026. Attendance in person is required on both days. Please take these dates into consideration when applying.Please be advised that we are unable to consider CV's submitted by recruitment agencies. All applicants must apply directly.
Health and Care Jersey is a Government of Jersey department and is not part of the NHS.
Jersey is a unique place to live and work. As a crown dependency, we are an Island nation which includes our own Health Care Service. And it is a service on the move with the newEnid Quenault health care facility opened in 2023 and financialcommitment to improve and invest in further healthcare facilities including a brand-new acute hospital. Our patients and health professionals are at the centre of all we do, as a doctor you have more time to care and we give more time to you for your development and wellbeing as well as the opportunity to carry out private patient work.
This is an opportunity to join a dynamic, forward looking Consultant team where change and evolution of Emergency Medicine is a priority. This is a replacement post to join the existing complement of eight consultants within Jersey General Hospital which is the only Emergency Department on island.
Main duties of the job
To lead or supervise the resuscitation and treatment of patients with life threatening injury and illness
To work in close partnership and liaison with Primary Care, other specialties and other specialist services.
Assess, review, treat and establish management plans for patients within the resus, majors and minors of the Emergency Department
To work as the consultant in charge of the department and lead the shift
Participate on the Emergency Department Consultants on-call rota
To provide clinical advice and support to primary care colleagues and other consultants within Health and Care Jersey medical model
To deliver personalised, evidence informed medical care plans to all patients that are appropriately documented and regularly evaluated.
To provide advice and timely medical reviews and interventions as part of the interdisciplinary model of care.
To set-up, participate and attend relevant services MDTs where applicable including frequent attendance
Maintain good quality up to date medical records including timely discharge letters and summaries.
To ensure appropriate documentation and coding is used to provide consistent audit and monitoring of the service.
To adhere to local prescribing guidelines
To provide clinical supervision, advice and guidance to the resident doctor workforce and emergency nurse practitioners
To provide clinical supervision, advice and guidance to the resident doctor workforce and emergency nurse practitioners
About us
Health and Care Jersey (HCJ) is part of the Office of the Chief Executive of the Island. The Director General for Health and Care Jersey is Tom Walker. The management team consists of: Jessie Marshall (Chief Nurse), Claire Thompson (Director of Clinical Services), Anuschka Muller (Director of Innovation); Stephen James (Director of Workforce); Andy Weir (Director of Mental Health, Social Care Community Services) and Simon West (Medical Director).
Health and Care Jersey includes the following Care Groups: Mental Health, Adult Social Care; Community Services; Women, Children and Family Care Group; Medical Care Group and Surgical Care Group.
Job responsibilities
Departmental Statistics (2022-23)
45,000 Attendances including 9,000 children.
Emergency Department in Jersey General Hospital is a Trauma Unit, part of the Wessex Trauma Network. Our Major Trauma Centre is Southampton General Hospital. Our link cardiology centre is John Radcliff Hospital in Oxford.
Transfer of patients from the island to the mainland centres is on JETS (fixed-wing Jersey Emergency Transfer Service).
The department has a 3 bedded resus (including a fully equipped paediatric resus cubicle), 8 bedded Majors area (half of these are isolation rooms), and there is a paediatric examination room as well as a separate paediatric waiting room. There is a separate Minors area with 4 examination cubicles and a separate Eye examination cubicle.
The Emergency Medicine Service
Emergency Medicine Consultants
(some part time and not including this post)
Recruiting to 9WTE
Dr C King, Clinical Lead
Dr M Finn
Dr J Terris
Dr A Varma
Dr S Chapman, Chief of Surgical Care Group
Dr A Noon
Dr N Payne
Dr J McInerney, Deputy Medical Director, GMC Responsible Officer
Dr K Anderson, Chief of Education
Emergency Medicine Consultants are on the shop floor 8am-10pm Monday to Friday and 10am-4pm Saturday and Sunday and on-call outside of these hours. Consultants use self-rostering for shifts and our rota is on Health roster.
SAS Grade Staffing
Associate Specialists - 3
Staff Grades 11
There is 24/7 Middle Grade shop floor cover.
Middle Grades use self-rostering for shifts and their rota is on Health roster.
Resident Doctor Staffing
4 Foundation Trainees (Year 2)
3 GPVTS trainees
7 Clinical Fellows
There is 24/7 resident doctor shopfloor cover.
Resident Doctor rota is on Healthrota.
ENP staffing
5 ENP funded posts
There is 12 hours a day / 7 days a week ENP service
Nursing Staff
21.95 full time equivalent nurses. This includes 1 grade 6 Senior Sister, 2 grade 5A Junior Sisters, 2 grade 5B Nurse Practitioners and 4 Emergency Nurse Practitioners.
Medical Secretaries
There are 2 medical secretaries for the Emergency Department Consultants.
Emergency Department sits within the Medical Services Care Group which comprise the following range of services:
Ambulatory Emergency Care
Cardiology
Dermatology
Diabetes
Acute Admissions Unit (AAU)
Emergency Department
Haematology
Medical Day Unit
Medical outpatients
Medical Wards - Bartlett, Corbiere and Rozel Wards
Neurology
Oncology
Palliative Medicine
Pathology
Rehabilitation Ward Plemont Ward (Interim Rehabilitation Unit)
Renal Medicine
Respiratory
Rheumatology
Sexual Health
Medical Services Care Group
Medicine in Jersey is fully age and specialty integrated. There are 3 medical wards, Bartlett, Rozel and Corbiere. A 5-bedded Enhanced Care Area is sited on EAU and there is a separate intensive care unit led by intensivists. There is also an Ambulatory Emergency Care Unit on EAU led by a SAS doctor with consultant support. There is a 16 bed Emergency Assessment Unit. Currently there are 11 consultants, 8 SAS doctors, 7 FY1 and 2 FY2 doctors who between them comprise 8 medical teams and the EAU team. 6 Clinical Fellows offer further support to the teams.
SAS doctors are responsible for the day-to-day management of their patients on the wards with the help of clinical fellows, FY1 or FY2 doctor whom they closely supervise.
On call, the SAS doctor is responsible for seeing patients referred by the Emergency Department and reviewing patients admitted to the EAU by GPs in conjunction with the EAU team. A core responsibility of the Division of Medicine is the provision of a safe acute medical service. The Division provides named Consultant supervision for non-Consultants at all times and ensures that prompt review and treatment is provided for acute medical emergencies referred by General Practitioners or the Emergency Department. The Medical Consultants share on-call cover for the general medical take on a rolling 24hr rota, 8am-8am. Consultant-led post take ward rounds take place at 5pm and 8am. Being on an Island, the physicians need to be able to cover the full range of medical emergencies while on call.
The Medical Consultants share responsibility for ongoing management of patients admitted acutely to the wards. At present, the Medical Consultants have responsibilities for ongoing management of inpatients for a 4-week period of each 8-week rota cycle. Leave is by preference taken during the remaining 4 weeks with the remainder of the time allocated to an increased intensity of specialist elective work.
Consultants are responsible for producing and updating guidelines for the management of acute medical emergencies in their specialist area.
Care Group Statistics
There are 63 medical beds. 12-20 acute medical admissions on average during each 24-hour period on call within a range of approximately 6-24.
There are approximately 4,500 medical admissions annually
The post holder will seek opportunities to develop knowledge, skills and experience and be expected to maintain continued professional development to satisfy the requirement of yearly appraisals including ...
