Locum Consultant Critical Care - Southend

NHS; Leigh on Sea; On-site; GBP 93,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health service provider in Leigh on Sea is seeking a Locum Consultant in Critical Care to join their team for 12 months. This role involves delivering high-quality care, directing clinical decisions, and supporting junior doctors within a critical care setting. Candidates should hold Full GMC registration and have extensive experience in adult critical care medicine. Competitive salary offered, alongside opportunities for personal and professional development.

Qualifications

• Full GMC registration is required.
• CCT in Intensive Care Medicine or related specialty with completed advanced training.
• Extensive experience in adult critical care medicine.

Responsibilities

• Deliver critical care as per Intensive Care Society's guidelines.
• Direct and deliver care to patients in the critical care unit.
• Participate in multidisciplinary team meetings and decisions.

Skills

Extensive experience in adult critical care medicine

Teaching and supervising junior doctors

Excellent communication skills

Education

Full GMC registration

MBBS degree or equivalent

CCT in Intensive Care Medicine

Job description

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Locum Consultant Critical Care - Southend

The closing date is 07 October 2025

Our Critical Care service at Southend Hospital is looking for a Locum Consultant to join an inclusive, friendly team on a 12 month basis. We are an ambitious Division, and successful individuals would be joining at a time where they can help shape the future with opportunity to meaningfully contribute to development of the Service.

You will be working with the other Critical Care Consultants to direct and deliver care to patients referred and admitted to the critical care unit, participating in the established on-call rota and service framework.

Your role will be to deliver critical care that meets the standards set out in the Intensive Care Society's Guidelines on the Provision of Intensive Care Services (GPICS, edition 2), with specific reference to section 3.1., ensuring that the decision to admit a patient to critical care is made only after discussion with a Critical Care Consultant and ensure that all unplanned admissions to Critical Care occur within 4 hours of the decision to admit.

This post is a Locum role and will allow the successful applicant to be supported through CESR and post will be converted to substantive once you are on the specialist register.

Main duties of the job

Your role will ensure that the decision to admit a patient to Critical Care is made only after discussion with a Critical Care Consultant, that all unplanned admissions occur within 4 hours of decision to admit and you will also ensure that all patients admitted to Critical Care have a Consultant directed care plan on admission and all patients admitted are reviewed in-person by a Consultant as urgently as the situation dictates and always within 12 hours of admission.

Our MSE Critical Care units operate on the "closed unit model"; our Critical Care Consultants are expected to work collaboratively with specialty teams but the final decisions on admission, discharge and immediate day-to-day management is the responsibility of the attending Critical Care Consultant.

You will be expected to participate in multidisciplinary team meetings, to provide expert opinion to specialty colleagues when requested, particularly with a view to supporting discussions and decisions on treatment escalation planning if so asked, be expected to communicate effectively with patients and their relatives, providing high-quality verbal and/ or written information and manage discussions regarding treatment escalation planning, resuscitation and end-of-life planning with sensitivity.

You will, in conjunction with other Critical Care consultants be directly responsible for the supervision of and training of junior doctors working within Critical Care. A high level of Consultant oversight is expected.

About us

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust

Job responsibilities

Are you looking for a challenging Locum Consultant role where you make the difference every day, then we want to hear from you.

Please see the attached JD for further details of this exciting role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Full GMC registration
• CCT in Intensive Care Medicine or CCT in Anaesthesia/ Medical Specialty/ Emergency Medicine with evidence of completion of advanced training in ICM (or within six months of completion at time of interview)
• MBBS degree or equivalent

Clinical Experience and Knowledge

• Extensive experience in adult critical care medicine with evidence of ongoing commitment
• 12 month experience for NHS critical Care unit

Education and Training

• Experience in teaching, training and supervising junior doctors

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.

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

£109,725 a yearPer Annum (Pro rata for Part Time)