Consultant in Critical Care Medicine

2 weeks ago


Colchester, Essex, United Kingdom NHS Full time
Consultant in Intensive Care

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Consultant in Intensive Care to join our dynamic team at Colchester Hospital, part of East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust.

This is a replacement post, and the appointed post-holder will join the team to make 10 Consultant Intensivists with dedicated sessions on the Critical Care Unit. The post holder will participate in the 1:10 out of hour's on-call rota for critical care. Anaesthetic or allied specialty sessions will fall in the weeks outside of Critical Care commitments. Flexible/part time applications will be considered.

Our Gold Welcome Package includes a relocation package of £7000, additional £20,000 lump sum plus 1.5 additional 'SPA' time for the first 24 months to thank you for choosing to work with ESNEFT.

Main Duties and Responsibilities
  • Participate in the dedicated CCU on-call rota with other colleagues
  • Provide day time cover for Critical Care and support the Outreach service
  • Have a special interest in Critical Care Medicine
  • Work flexibly to cover theatre sessions/allied specialties
  • Take an active part in the supervision and management of junior medical staff, including formal teaching programmes and clinical audits
  • Participate in appraisal and assessment of junior medical staff and undergraduates, and performance of clinical audit as delegated by the Unit Training Director
  • To teach and train staff in other medical disciplines, nursing and support staff as appropriate
  • To participate fully in the clinical incident reporting system
Key Responsibilities
  • Work with colleagues to provide a Consultant-led service with the highest standard of care
  • Work with the multi-professional team to develop care pathways and clinical guidelines
  • Develop and maintain good working practices
  • Collaborate and promote close working links with colleagues, other departments and primary care
  • Offer educational, clinical support and leadership to junior medical colleagues, nursing colleagues and other members of the multi-disciplinary team
  • Ensure appropriate information is made available to staff to measure clinical performance and enable meaningful benchmarks to be established and evaluated within their area of responsibility
  • Ensure there is a robust process for reviewing the quality of services provided, explaining the causes of success and failure and ensure the highest standards are maintained
  • Provide a role model of professional leadership, which underpins the corporate values and behaviour agreed by the organisation, ensuring these are understood and demonstrated by the medical workforce within their area and take remedial action where poor behaviours are demonstrated
  • Ensure that junior doctors training conforms to College requirements
  • Participate in the appraisal of medical staff within the department in line with the Trusts agreed policy
Person Specification
  • CCT/CCST or entry onto the Specialist Register for ICM and Anaesthesia (or Emergency Medicine or Acute Medicine) or within 6 months of interview date
  • Advanced Training in Intensive Care Medicine as defined by FICM or equivalent
  • Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on a range of problems with both emergency and elective patients within the ICM specialty
  • Confidence in the initial management and stabilisation of children requiring intensive care
  • Ability to lead and work as part of multi-disciplinary team
  • Ability to organise and prioritise work effectively and be involved in the organisation of the department
  • Evidence of ability and commitment to teach undergraduates, postgraduates, nursing staff and other AHP
  • Understanding of NHS management structure
  • Ability and willingness to work hours of the job and provide out of hours cover on-call with any reasonable adjustment to take account of any local requirements
  • Further qualification in ICM, eg EDIC
  • A period of training in centre outside the regional training scheme either abroad or in the UK
  • Evidence of work submitted for peer review
  • Evidence of participation at "Training the Trainers Course"
  • ALS/APLS or ATLS Instructor
  • Evidence of presentation of personal work at national/international professional society meetings
  • Evidence of formal management training
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.



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