Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust; Salisbury; On-site; GBP 82,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine to join the team in Salisbury, providing expert patient care in a high-performing ICU. The position offers competitive benefits, including holidays starting at 32 days and opportunities for flexible working. Ideal candidates will hold a CCT in Intensive Care Medicine and show strong clinical judgement.

Benefits

32 days paid holiday

Pension scheme

Access to NHS discounts

On-site nursery

Leisure centre

Qualifications

• Ability to perform effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
• Evidence of wide experience and competence in Intensive Care Medicine.

Responsibilities

• Lead patient care in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
• Manage a flexible mix of level 2 and level 3 patients.

Skills

Teamwork

Clinical Judgement

Analytical Thinking

Education

CCT in Intensive Care Medicine

Full GMC registration

Job description

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Client:

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust

Location:

Salisbury, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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Job Reference:

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Posted:

29.06.2025

Expiry Date:

13.08.2025

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Job Description:

Job overview

We are delighted to seek applications for the post of Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine (ICM) to join our team in Salisbury.

This substantive position is a replacement post and the successful applicant will join the 7 existing Intensive Care Consultants who lead patient care in the intensive care unit (ICU), one of the premier services in this high performing Foundation Trust. The CQC have recently described Critical Care services as 'Outstanding' in Salisbury.

Our Intensive Care Unit is housed in a modern facility containing 12 physical bed spaces, of which 10 are currently staffed to support a flexible mix of level 2 and level 3 patents.

Interviews for this post will be Wednesday 6th August 2025

Main duties of the job

This is a 10 PA post, but it is likely that an additional programmed activity could be offered to the successful candidate. On average, 4.5 PA are delivered as DCC to ICU, a further 4 PAs of DCC are provided outside of ICU in the applicant's base speciality and 1.5 SPAs. The postholder may want to have time for research during DCC and this can be discussed with Clinical Leads and Clinical director on appointment.

The proportion of SPA would increase in line with increasing responsibilities after appointment.

There are currently 8 intensive care consultants who take an equal share in managing the daytime weekday workload, and 7 of these provide out of hours non resident cover. Most of the current ICM consultants have a second specialty of anaesthesia but one has a second specialty of Emergency Medicine. We welcome applications from CCT holders with a dual CCT in any other specialty, as well as those with single specialty ICM.

Working for our organisation

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we’re driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated “Good” by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 32 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fees and restrictions apply), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The ICU admits approximately 400 patients per year, and these patients are a mixture of elective post op surgery and emergency work for both medical and surgical specialties. 20% of the workload is from surgical patients. One ICU consultant is responsible for the unit at all times leading a team of resident medical staff and working closely with the nurse in charge. Duty periods are from Monday to Friday or Friday to Monday split equally between all consultants. Some weeknights are covered by colleagues in the weekday duty period.

Person specification

Qualifications and Specialist Training

• Possession, or within 6 months of possession, of a CCT in Intensive Care Medicine leading to entry onto the GMC Specialist Register
• Full GMC registration with a licence to practice

Management Experience

• Ability to perform effectively as a member of a team, including a multidisciplinary team and to motivate and develop staff
• Ability and willingness to work within the Trust and NHS performance targets

Experience/Clinical Skills

• Evidence of wide experience and a high level of competence in Intensive Care Medicine/FFICM or equivalent
• Appropriate knowledge base and ability to apply sound clinical judgement to problems: demonstrates clear, logical thinking/analytical approach
• Knowledge and application of up to date evidence based practice

We offer excellent benefits that help make SDH a great place to work. These include but aren't limited to:-

• Holiday starting at 27 days plus Bank Holidays rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years for Agenda for Change staff
• Holiday entitlement for Medical and Dental staff starts at 27 days for Junior/Senior Clinical Fellows, Specialty Doctors and rises to 32 days after 5 years. Consultant entitlement starts at 32 days and rises to 34 days after 7 years
• An additional day's leave to celebrate your birthday (after 12 months & non contractual) pro rata
• Access to a career average revalued earnings pension scheme
• Life assurance if a member of the pension scheme
• An extensive Health and Wellbeing offer to help you deal with life's challenges
• Exclusive deals and discounts websites saving you money on everyday purchases, treats for the family, eating out and utility bills for home
• Cycle to work scheme
• Uniform provided (where required)
• On site Day Nursery and Holiday Play scheme
• On site health and fitness club
• On site car parking (fee's and restrictions apply)
• Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.