Consultant Intensivist

Job summary

Substantive Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

JOB OVERVIEW

We are seeking motivated and enthusiastic people to join our dedicated team in Critical Care. Our team consists of 9 consultants, 24 junior doctors, and over 100 nurses and AHPs in our two Critical Care units.

Specialties and Collaboration:

We support all general specialties and admit patients from regional Renal, Haematology, and Oncology units. Our in-reach service helps our hospitals achieve the trust's mission statement of 'delivering outstanding care every day'. We are part of the South West London Adult Critical Care network (SWLACC).

Main duties of the job

Responsibilities:

10 PA contract: DCCs (outlined above); SPAs (including revalidation, educational supervision, and clinical governance).

Contribute to our weekly Morbidity and Mortality meetings, monthly ICU Consultant and Clinical Governance meetings, and divisional Quality and Audit meetings.

Assist with our teaching programmes, including bedside echocardiography and simulation training.

About us

Why join us?

Career development: There is a potential opportunity to negotiate an additional 1 PA in a complementary specialty or subspecialise in an area of ICU.

Education: Accredited for FICM Stage 1, 2, and 3 training. We are developing CESR-training pathways in collaboration with St George's Hospital. We aim to expand our echocardiogram and simulation training. The ICU team also provide education to other teams outside ICU and undergraduates from St George's Hospital Medical School.

Innovative environment: We are working towards providing a 7-day, 24h critical care outreach service by Autumn 2024.

Supportive team: We provide an in-reach service to the Medicine department, while also collaborating with Anaesthetics, Surgery, Emergency, and Renal departments, and other regional ICUs.

Inclusion and Diversity:

We are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workplace and welcome candidates from all backgrounds.

Apply today

If you are passionate about delivering outstanding care and eager to contribute to our education and research programmes, we want to

Job description

Job responsibilities

About the units:

St Helier ICU: 13 beds, providing full level 3 and

Epsom HDU: 8 level 2 beds.

Annual admissions: 1400 patients, including 700 emergency medical patients, 350 emergency surgical patients, and 350 patients following complex elective surgery.

Consultant Rota:

The ICU consultants work 1 in 9 rota on an annualised job plan. The 9-week rota typically includes:

7 days as the consultant of the week in St Helier ICU (08:00-18:00h daily, with overnight on-calls at weekends),

5 days in Epsom HDU (08:00-18:00h),

5 second on-call shifts in St Helier ICU working alongside the Consultant of the week (08:00-21:00h on site, 21:00-08:00h on-call from home within 30 minutes travel distance).

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Specialist registration* in Intensive Care Medicine (either solely or in combination with another specialty) or within 6 months of achieving this. EDIC and / or FFICM and / or equivalent A license to practice with the General Medical Council** Good Clinical Practice training (GCP)

Desirable

Educational supervision training that fulfils the Trust's minimum requirements** MSc, MD(res), PhD or similar

Experience

Essential

Ability to take full and independent responsibility for the clinical care of ICU patients Ability to teach & train junior medical staff and undergraduate students

Desirable

Experience of leading clinical audits, quality improvement programmes, implementing change and monitoring compliance. Development and delivery of a comprehensive and effective critical illness rehabilitation service Postgraduate research

Skills

Essential

Ability to organise, prioritise, delegate, and manage Ability to work productively in multidisciplinary teams Ability to develop rapport with and discuss treatment options with patients in a way they can understan

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