ACCOTS Duty Consultant

The Methodist Church in Britain; Melbourne; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

University Hospitals of Leicester hosts a substantive consultant post for the Adult Critical Care Co-ordination and Transfer service. The role focuses on triaging referrals, coordinating transfers, supervising clinical care and leading governance for the transfer team.

The post requires Full GMC registration and a Specialist register entry in Intensive Care Medicine or Anaesthesia, with extensive ICU experience and leadership capabilities to drive service quality and patient safety.

Qualifications

• Full GMC registration with licence to practise.
• Specialist register entry in Intensive Care Medicine or Anaesthesia.
• Experience as NHS consultant or equivalent in ICU.
• Extensive experience independently assessing, resuscitating and treating critically ill adults.
• Ability to lead a multidisciplinary transfer team and liaise with governance.

Responsibilities

• Triage, co-ordination and decision support for referrals to ACCOTS.
• Receive referrals, give clinical and logistical advice and allocate transfer resources.
• Task clinical transfer teams and provide leadership to the team.
• Develop and implement treatment plans with the transfer team.
• Ensure safe, timely transfer of critically ill patients within the region.
• Follow SOPs for referral handling, deployment and pathways.
• Maintain high quality clinical records and governance documentation.
• Support induction and development of team members and training days.
• Maintain competency in adult critical care delivery.

Skills

Leadership

Communication skills

Decision making

Non-technical skills

Work under pressure

Education

GMC registration

Job description

A substantive consultant post on the Adult Critical Care Co-ordination and Transfer service, the Midlands region's commissioned critical care transfer team hosted by University Hospitals of Leicester. The work centres on triaging and co-ordinating referrals, supervising clinical care and leading teaching and governance for the transfer team. Annualised hours apply, on a minimum 2.0 PA contract, and transfers can run beyond the duty period. Full GMC registration and a specialist register entry in Intensive Care Medicine or Anaesthesia are required.

What the job involves

• Triage, co-ordination and decision support for all referrals to ACCOTS
• Receive referrals, give clinical and logistical advice, and allocate transfer resource or signpost alternatives when out of scope
• Manage the tasking of clinical transfer teams
• Provide clinical leadership and support to the multidisciplinary transfer team
• Develop and implement treatment plans with the transfer team and service users
• Ensure the safe, timely and efficient transfer of critically ill patients within the operating region
• Follow and ensure adherence to SOPs for referral handling, deployment, clinical pathways and service operations
• Maintain high quality clinical records
• Support the induction and development of transfer team members, and engage with the service education programme and training days
• Maintain personal competency and currency in adult critical care delivery
• Present cases at clinical governance days, and contribute to quality improvement, audit, research and SOP development
• Act as an ambassador for the service, modelling its values and behaving professionally at all times

What’s required

Registration & licences

• Full GMC registration with licence to practise
• Specialist register entry in Intensive Care Medicine or Anaesthesia
• Compliance with GMC Good Medical Practice, appraisal and revalidation requirements

Experience

• NHS consultant or equivalent
• Experience in Intensive Care Medicine or Anaesthesia, with an interest in Intensive Care Medicine
• Extensive experience independently assessing, resuscitating, stabilising and treating critically ill and injured adults (FICM Level 4 or RCoA Stage 3 equivalent)
• Demonstrable training, competency and regular current exposure to in-hospital critical care delivery

Skills & knowledge

• Excellent verbal and written communication and non-technical skills
• Leading and working within a high-performing small team
• Working flexibly and adaptably under pressure and in emotive situations
• Problem-solving and decision-making
• Working unsupervised and managing own workload
• Time management and organisational skills

Other

• Fitness for critical care transfer work, including manual handling and carrying equipment
• Comfort working in the ambulance environment, including confined spaces and motion

Nice to have

• Higher qualification in retrieval or transfer medicine, such as the Diploma in Retrieval and Transfer Medicine
• Formal training or postgraduate qualification in leadership and management
• Relevant specialist courses, such as Advanced Life Support, European Trauma Course, point of care ultrasound or difficult airway management
• Previous critical care transfer or retrieval medicine experience in a dedicated service
• Clinical leadership and management experience
• Evidence of specific training in non-technical skills
• Evidence of specific training in advanced communication