Consultant Intensive Care Medicine

Lewisham and Greenwich; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust seeks a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine to join a dynamic team. This replacement substantive post may be offered as a fixed term locum position for up to 12 months, with an annualised contract and 7.5 direct clinical care sessions plus up to 2.5 SPA.

Applicants must be eligible for GMC registration, hold CCT/CESR or be within six months of completion, and have subspecialty experience across general medical and surgical ICU care.

Qualifications

• MBBS (or equivalent) and Full GMC registration with Licence to Practise.
• CCT or CESR(CP) in Intensive Care Medicine, or within 6 months of interview.
• FICE echocardiography accreditation.
• FRCA, MRCP or FRCEM (if intending to work future sessions).
• ALS/APLS/ATLS Instructor in at least one of these courses.

Responsibilities

• Provide consultant-level care in ICU across two sites.
• Flexible working patterns with potential sessions in base specialties.
• Meet GMC requirements and maintain professional standards.
• Lead and participate in teaching, governance and quality improvement initiatives.
• Support recruitment, orientation and ongoing education of staff.

Education

MBBS (or equivalent)

Full GMC registration and Licence to Practise

CCT or CESR(CP) in Intensive Care Medicine, or within 6 months of interview

FICE echocardiography accreditation

FRCA, MRCP or FRCEM (if intending to work future sessions)

ALS/APLS/ATLS Instructor in at least one of these courses

Job description

Step into a place where exceptional care, patients, culture, and careers come together.

Explore our current vacancies and take your first step toward making a real difference.

Join us. Make a difference. Be part of Team LGT.

Main area Intensive Care Medicine Grade Consultant Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 10 sessions per week (Fully annualised) Job ref 197-AA8437

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.

Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.

Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.

LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.

We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICs in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

Job overview

Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine

We would like to welcome you to join our team in offering superb patient care. We have one replacement post due to retirement that we believe offers an excellent work-life balance in a sustainable way. We want you to enjoy working with us - not just now, but over the coming decades too.

Our team of 14 dynamic and enthusiastic consultants are pioneering an exciting transformation strategy in the Critical Care Department at Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust. This post is a replacement substantive post, but may be offered as a fixed term locum position for up to 12 months.

Our department treats over 1600 patients a year across two sites in South London with a wide case-mix of general medical and surgical admissions. We house a number of subspecialties in our Trust including ENT, nephrology, urology, bariatrics, complex orthopaedics, interventional cardiology, high-risk obstetrics and numerous cancer specialists. Around 40% of our patients are ventilated at any one time, and around 3% of these are retrieved by tertiary ECMO services. We provide emergency renal replacement therapy to around 60% of our admissions. Our ICNARC mortality and other outcomes are comparable to similar units.

Main duties of the job

We offer annualised contracts to consultant intensivists at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust. These posts are open to full-time intensivists. However, where vacanct sessions are available in other specialties, we will allow some flexibility to accommodate those who wish to maintain clinical sessions in a base specialty (e.g. anaesthesia, acute medicine, emergency medicine, respiratory medicine and nephrology).

These posts attract 10 programmed activities (PAs) and are offered as a split of 7.5 direct clinical care (DCC) and up to 2.5 supporting professional activities (SPA). SPA allocation is reviewed annually to ensure appropriate consultant skill development and career progression, whilst meeting the needs of the service.

All candidates must be eligible for full GMC registration and either already be on the Specialist Register or be within six months (of interview date) of receiving CCT/CESR, please provide supporting evidence. Please see the person specification listed.

Working for our organisation

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

• Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
• Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
• Improving the experience of staff with disability
• Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
• Making equalities mainstream

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For full details of the main responsibilities and person specification, please request a copy of the full job description from the main contact listed below.

Qualifications

• MBBS (or equivalent)
• Full Registration with the GMC and hold a Licence to Practise
• CCT or CESR(CP) in Intensive Care Medicine, or within 6 months of obtaining this at the time of interview
• FICE echocardiography accreditation
• FRCA, MRCP or FRCEM (if intending to work future sessions in the respective specialty)
• ALS/APLS/ATLS Instructor in at least one of these courses

Clinical Experience

• Training and competence in Intensive Care Medicine
• Wide breadth of experience in Intensive Care Medicine
• Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
• Ability to deal with complex clinical problems that may arise during the post
• Experience and training in a relevant base discipline (e.g. anaesthesia, emergency medicine, respiratory medicine, nephrology)
• Post-registration clinical fellowship in a non-UK intensive care unit

Quality Improvement

• Understand the principles of quality improvement
• Evidence of participation in a quality improvement project
• Able to demonstrate change from a quality improvement project in critical care
• Evidence of other clinical governance activity, including critical incident investigation and morbidity & mortality review

Teaching Experience

• Experience of teaching undergraduates
• Evidence of teaching clinical skills to postgraduates
• Evidence of specialist teaching qualification
• Experience in delivering simulation training
• Evidence of training to enable educational supervision

Management Experience

• Evidence of ability to organise rotas, teaching programmes or training events
• Appropriate understanding of NHS directives regarding consultant clinical practice including clinical governance
• Ability to lead and manage a multidisciplinary team
• Training/experience in NHS management
• Attendance at a management course aimed at senior trainees or consultants

Research Experience

• Understanding of research principles, research governance and scientific methods
• Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems
• Higher degree (PhD or MD) in relevant subject
• Recent publications in peer-reviewed journals
• Previous research experience in ICM
• Presentations at national or international research meetings
• Ongoing interest in clinical research

Other Attributes

• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Good interpersonal skills and the ability to work in a team
• Conscientious and diligent
• Commitment to Continuing Professional Development
• Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional or national levels

We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.

As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women’s staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.

Please note: Information provided during recruitment and pre‑employment checks must be accurate. Misrepresentation may be investigated as fraud and could lead to withdrawal from the process, professional sanctions, or criminal action.

Please note: that sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route is subject to Trust allocation and UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) approval.

Use of AI in recruitment: We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support the initial review of applications against the essential criteria for this role. Where AI is used, it will support rather than replace human decision‑making, and applications will remain subject to appropriate human review.

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.

Application numbers

To ensure fairness and manageable shortlisting processes, some vacancies may have an application cap. This means the vacancy will close once a set number of applications have been received even if this happens before the advertised closing date.