Locum Consultant in Critical Care

Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust; Romford; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in the United Kingdom is seeking to appoint a Locum Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine. The successful candidate will provide high-quality critical care, review patients, and participate in on-call duties. Applicants should have demonstrable experience in Intensive Care, with locum or fellowship experience considered advantageous. This role is whole-time and supports professional activities, contributing to both service and education. Applications open until January 15, 2026.

Benefits

Flexible working options

London Living Wage employer

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in Intensive Care Medicine.
• Experience working as a locum consultant is advantageous.
• Fellowship in Intensive Care would be beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality critical care service to the hospitals.
• Review patients and initiate critical care treatment.
• Participate in on-call cover for critical care medicine.
• Contribute to education for medical and allied staff.

Job description

The Trust seeks to appoint a Locum Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine. This locum post requires applicants to have suitable, demonstrable experience within Intensive Care Medicine. The new appointee will share the caseload, facilities, and trainee grade support with the existing consultants. Requirements of the post-holder are listed below. Experience of working as a locum consultant or a fellowship in Intensive Care would be advantageous.

The post is whole time and offers 9 Direct Clinical Care programmed activities (PAs), 1 Supporting Professional Activities (SPA).

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the provision of a high quality, responsive critical care service to Barking,Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust that assumes responsibility for the patients within the catchment area in co-operation with colleagues in anaesthetics and other clinical departments. This will involve caring for patients on the ITUs and HDUs at Queen’s Hospital and/or King George Hospital, reviewing patients and initiating critical care treatment in Accident & Emergency, theatre recovery and ward areas, and undertaking transfer of patients (both intra- and inter-hospital).
• Comply with the agreed job plan, which will be reviewed annually.
• Participate in an emergency out of hours resident on-call cover for critical care medicine.
• Contribute to postgraduate and continuing education for medical, nursing, technical staff, GP’s and other allied professions.
• Deputise in the absence of departmental colleagues in cases of annual leave and (where practicable) short-term sickness.

Please read the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

About the Trust

We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with. They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission. We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care. We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance. We run a Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

Some of the positive changes we’ve made are captured in this film.

Once you understand the requirements outlined in the advert, please ensure your application accurately reflects where you match them. For further information regarding the role please read the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Applications should be made online, however, queries regarding the application process, assistance with completion of the application form or if you require any adjustments (for applicants with a disability) please contact Abi Fadero, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708435000 ext. 4456.

This advert closes on Thursday 15 Jan 2026