Consultant in Critical Care Transfer (ARCC KSS)

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust; Guildford; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust invites applications for a Consultant in Critical Care Transfer to join the ARCC KSS team hosted by RSFT. The role involves coordinating inter-hospital transfers across Kent, Surrey & Sussex and occasional coverage into London, providing high-quality critical care in transit and inpatient settings.

You must hold GMC licence and be on the Specialist Register for ICM or Anaesthesia, with transferral experience; shifts are 12 hours, 09:00–21:00, seven days a week,

Qualifications

• Must hold in good standing GMC licence to practise.
• Specialist registration for ICM or Anaesthetics is required or to be obtained.
• Experience in critical care transfer and inter-hospital transfers is essential.

Responsibilities

• Take referrals from healthcare providers across KSS and advise referring teams.
• Allocate urgency and priority to each transfer and communicate ETA to referrers.
• Work as part of a 12-hour shift rota (09:00–21:00), 7 days a week, with occasional overrun.
• Deliver clinical care and interventions in hospital and transfer environments to ensure safe transfer.
• Work from two bases (Crawley and Maidstone) with potential base moves.
• Provide leadership within the ARCC Clinical Transfer Team.

Skills

Advanced airway skills

Critical care transfer experience

Inter-hospital transfer expertise

Education

GMC licence to practise

FFICM or FRCA

GMC Specialist Register for ICM/Anaesthetics

Job description

Consultant in Critical Care Transfer (ARCC KSS)

Consultant

Job overview

We are excited to welcome applications for Consultants to join the Adult Critical Care Transfer team (ACCTS) in Kent, Surrey & Sussex (KSS). This exciting new service, known as ARCC KSS, is hosted by RSFT and will strive to provide a high standard of clinical to adult patients requiring inter-hospital transfers across the region and into London for reasons such as escalation of care, repatriation, capacity and continuation of care.

Consultants in Critical Care Transfer are doctors on the GMC Specialist Register for Intensive Care Medicine (ICM) or Anaesthesia or a both, who will work with Transfer Practitioners (TPs) and Emergency Care Support Workers (ECSWs) as part of the ARCC Clinical Transfer Team.

Applications are welcomed from Consultant and Specialists with alternative specialist registration, but you may be appointed with restrictions.

The ARCC clinical transfer team will deliver high-quality, safe and effective care whilst undertaking inter-hospital transfers primarily across KSS but into neighbouring regions on occasion. The Transfer Consultant provides support, care and necessary clinical interventions to patients in the hospital and transfer environment, using appropriate skills and equipment, ensuring they are transferred efficiently and safely to a facility which is best suited to provide treatment for their on-going clinical needs.

Main duties of the job

In addition, the Transfer Consultant will be required to take referrals from healthcare providers across KSS and be able to provide advice and guidance to referring teams, allocate an urgency and priority to each transfer and communicate effectively to mobilise teams and update the referring and receiving Trusts.

Transfer Consultants will work as part of a day time rota covering shifts from 09:00-21:00 7 days per week, 365 days per year. There are currently no night shifts as part of this service. Clinical transfer teams will be based at 2 hubs across KSS in Crawley and Maidstone. We are interested in consultants that would like to work for ARCC KSS as a regular commitment for example, average 1 or 2 PAs per week plus ad hoc shifts.

Working for our organisation

Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.

We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given us an overall rating of Outstanding.

Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Transfer Consultant provides support, care and necessary clinical interventions to patients in the hospital and transfer environment, using appropriate skills and equipment, ensuring they are transferred efficiently and safely to a facility which is best suited to provide treatment for their on-going clinical needs.

In addition, the Transfer Consultant will be required to take referrals from healthcare providers across KSS and be able to provide advice and guidance to referring teams, allocate an urgency and priority to each transfer and communicate effectively to mobilise teams and provide an ETA to the referrer and updates as required should clinical or environmental conditions change.

The successful candidate will work at one of the two bases in KSS (Crawley and Maidstone). Occasionally in exceptional circumstances and with appropriate notice, doctors may be asked to work at the other operational base. Doctors may also request to move between bases for different clinical experiences, provided that this can be accommodated within the requirements of the service.

The successful candidate will work on a rota comprised of 12 hour shifts: 09.00 – 21.00hrs, 7 days per week. There will be a requirement to work shifts, including evenings and weekends, with the occasional potential to overrun.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Full GMC with licence to practice
• FFICM or FRCA
• Experienced, substantive Critical Care or Anaesthetic Consultant with experience in Critical Care Transfer.
• Relevant specialist courses (for example, difficult airway, point of care ultrasound)
• GMC Specialist Register for ICM or Anaesthetics.

Experience

• Extensive experience within intensive care medicine or anaesthesia of independently assessing, resuscitating, stabilising and treating critically unwell adult patients
• Advanced airway skills (i.e. ability to deliver unplanned emergency anaesthesia in a remote environment to a critically unwell adult without supervision)
• Experience of critical care transfer
• Evidence of completion of critical care transfer training
• Previous experience of critical care transfer and/or retrieval in a dedicated service

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.