Consultant in Critical Care

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Sutton-in-Ashfield; On-site; GBP 82,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent NHS Foundation Trust in Sutton-in-Ashfield is seeking a Consultant in Critical Care to join their dedicated team. The role involves providing high-quality patient care, participating in on-call services, and engaging in leadership development. Candidates must have relevant qualifications including a CCT in Critical Care and GMC registration. The position offers a supportive work environment focused on compassionate patient care.

Qualifications

• Experience requisite to meeting all aspects of the job plan.
• 12 months or more anaesthetic experience.
• Current Advanced Life Support accreditation.

Responsibilities

• Provide safe and effective care as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Engage in medical leadership and service development.
• Participate in the Critical Care Consultant on-call rota.

Skills

Teaching ability

Clinical credibility

Research participation

Education

CCT in related speciality with FFICM or EDIC or DICM

Entry on GMC Specialist Register

MRCP or FRCEM

Job description

Consultant in Critical Care

The closing date is 16 December 2025

You will join a supportive and friendly multi-disciplinary team, including doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, cleaning/domestic staff, dieticians, microbiology/infection control, pharmacists and admin staff, that value good team-working and safe, efficient and compassionate patient care. Our therapies team has expanded with the addition of colleagues in speech and language therapy, occupational therapy and psychology, all with dedicated Critical Care time.

The Critical Care team is led by nine Critical Care Consultants plus one Specialist in Critical Care. As part of the Department of Anaesthetics, with a total establishment of thirty-one Consultants. The trainee establishment consists of ten Stage 1 and seven Stage 2/3 trainees rotating from the East Midlands School of Anaesthesia (EMSA). We also host ICM specialty trainees in Stages 1 and 2 and have recently commenced Stage 3 / advanced ICM placements.

You will participate in the Critical Care Consultant on call rota for out of hours activity. 'On-call' will be on a 1 in 8 rota, including weekends with prospective cover. (Consultants will be expected to cross cover colleagues' leave in order to cover the Critical Care Medicine service).

The successful candidate will be contracted to Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and based at King's Mill Hospital.

Consultants are expected and be able to attend within thirty minutes when on call and accommodation is available to be booked on site if needed.

Main duties of the job

We would like you to commit to providing safe and effective care, as part of a supportive, cohesive team with a strong ethos of quality assurance and improvement. We would expect you to play a full and active part in the delivery and development of our Critical Care service and relationships with our partner specialties and teams.

As a consultant, whether newly appointed or moving from another hospital, you will also engage fully with developing yourselves in medical leadership.

About us

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust providing acute and community healthcare services for 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark, Sherwood and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We are working closely with partners in health and social care through the Mid Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Partnership to take collective responsibility for managing resources, delivering NHS standards, and improving the health of the population we serve.

We put the patient at the centre of everything that we do, and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically led organisation.

In the past four years our staff engagement scores have been the best for Acute Trusts in the Midlands.

We would love for you to join us!

Job responsibilities

Please see attached detailed job description and person specification for full details of main responsibilities.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Entry on GMC Specialist Register; (or within six months of receipt of CCT at time of interview). Portfolio Pathway (formerly CESR) applicants must be on the Specialist Register at the time of application
• CCT in related speciality with FFICM or EDIC or DICM
• MRCP or FRCEM

Teaching

• Evidence of effectively organising and delivering teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level
• Demonstrable ability as a teacher with evidence of training for the role

Research

• Ability to convert research evidence into clinical practice
• Publications in peer‑reviewed journals
• Participation in research relating to Intensive Care Medicine

Experience

• Experience requisite to meeting all aspects of the job plan
• 12 months or more anaesthetic experience
• Ability to maintain clinical credibility and authority with a multi‑professional team including senior trainees
• Training / experience in Neuro/ Paediatric/ Cardiac Intensive Care Medicine (as per Stage 2 FICM or equivalent)
• Successfully completed at least 2 years of Intensive Care Medicine e.g. training, fellowship, MTI, and at worked at senior training level (ST5+) in ICM
• Current Advanced Life Support accreditation
• APLS, ATLS or similar
• Additional/out of programme experience in Intensive Care Medicine including advanced training/fellowship
• Extended training in Echocardiography / Ultrasound

Management

• Ability to effectively organise and manage clinical workload
• Trained/undertaken quality assurance or audit projects within Critical Care
• Trained/undertaken quality improvement projects within Critical Care
• Management & Leadership CPD aligned to current healthcare practice
• Experience in Management & Leadership roles

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.

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust