Locum Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine & Anaesthesia

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust; Worcester; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust seeks a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia. The role involves delivering high-quality clinical care, participating in multi-disciplinary teams, and contributing to departmental development. Applicants should have relevant clinical training, full GMC registration, and a commitment to continuous learning.

Qualifications

• Clinical training and experience equivalent to UK CCT in Anaesthesia.
• GMC Registration with Licence to practice required.
• Successful completion of relevant examinations.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical service in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia.
• Participate in on-call rota and manage clinical care.
• Engage in supervising and teaching within multi-disciplinary teams.

Skills

Clinical training

Ability to offer expert clinical opinion

Teamwork

Communication

Commitment to Continuing Medical Education

Education

Full GMC Registration

FRCA

FFICM

Job description

The post will encompass clinical sessions in both Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia across all three sites. On call work will be in Intensive Care only with 2 Consultant Intensivists and 2 Consultant Anaesthetists on call across the county at any one time. There will be an even split between the Worcester and Alexandra Intensive Care Units. Further details are specified in the person specification below.

Main duties of the job

The suitably experienced post holder will be expected to provide a clinical service in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia to the patients of Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust and to General Practitioners.

The successful candidate will be expected to work within multi-disciplinary teams to provide high quality clinical care. This includes leading multi-disciplinary ward rounds, formulating and communicating suitable treatment plans, teaching, supervising and liaising with colleagues and services both locally and externally to facilitate the care of the critically ill patient. They must ensure comprehensive handover of care.

The post holder will be required to participate in the on-call rota and when on call, is required to be no more than 30 minutes travel time from the on-call site.

In addition to clinical duties, the post holder will be expected to participate in continuing professional development, appraisal, the job planning process, teaching and training, clinical audit and the clinical governance processes within the department and Trust. There is also an expectation that the successful candidate will actively contribute to the continuing development of the department.

About us

Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is over 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

Better never stops, and we are committed to developing a culture of continuous improvement.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

DBS Checks and Costs

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check (at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting Information section for more details on DBS checks and Costs

Job description

Job responsibilities

A formal job plan will be agreed between the post-holder and their Clinical Director and Divisional Medical Director, on behalf of the Chief Medical Officer, three months after the start date of the post. Clinical activity will be delivered in a 6-week cycle, with one week of Intensive Care every 6 weeks. Sessions in Anaesthesia will be based the clinical need of the department at the time. These may include major general/gynaecology/urology including robotic assisted surgery, trauma and orthopaedic surgery and CEPOD emergency list work. An example job plan timetable is shown below.

The Job Plan is subject to annual review and will be a prospective agreement that sets out a consultants duties, responsibilities and objectives for the coming year, covering all aspects of professional practice including clinical work, teaching, research, education and managerial responsibilities. It will provide an agreed schedule of commitments, both internal and external. In addition, it will include personal objectives, including details of their link to wider service objectives, and details of the support, if any, required by the consultant to fulfil the job plan and the objectives.

The job plan will predominantly offer fixed clinical activity. It is possible to consider a proportion of flexible clinical activity. Alternatively, an annualised flexible element to the job plan may be employed. We currently have consultants in the department who work part of their job plan for the Pre Hospital Emergency Medicine services under a negotiated service level agreement, and we are happy to discuss similar arrangements for new consultants. Annual leave is managed on an annualised basis.

Provisional Assessment of Programmed Activities in Job Plan:

Direct clinical care:

8 PAs per week to include clinical activity, clinical related activity, predictable and unpredictable on call. Cross-site travel time is included in each session of direct clinical care.

Supporting Professional Activities:

2 SPAs per week to support your CPD and revalidation related activities.

Additional PA allocations are provided for leadership roles, educational supervision, governance roles, being an appraiser or other pre-agreed additional activities.

On call: 2 PA on call allowance and category A 3% on call availability supplement. Rota frequency is 1:9. The successful applicant will be expected to participate in the countywide Intensive Care on call rota. The on-call responsibility involves both predictable and unpredictable elements. It is expected that at weekends, the predictable element will involve attendance at morning handover and the undertaking of twice daily ward rounds, then on call from home.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining (UK) CCT in Anaesthesia
• Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on range of problems both emergency and elective within specialty
• Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients

Desirable

• Interest and experience in paediatric intensive care medicine
• Interest and experience in critical care echocardiography
• Interest and experience in perioperative medicine
• Expertise in subspecialty

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Ability to work in a team
• Enquiring, critical approach to work
• Ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GPs, nurses and other agencies
• Commitment to Continuing Medical Education
• Able to meet the travel requirements of the job and return to the hospital within 30 minutes when on call
• An understanding of the current NHS environment, particularly in relation to reforms, initiatives and issues

Desirable

• Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local regional or national levels

Qualifications

Essential

• Full GMC Registration with a Licence to practise.
• Success in Intercollegiate Specialty Examination or overseas equivalent
• FRCA
• FFICM

Desirable

• Higher degree
• ALS, ATLS, APLS, EPLS provider status
• Entry on the GMC Specialist Register in Anaesthesia (or expected within 6 months of interview date)

Management and Administrative Experience

Essential

• Ability to organise and prioritise workload effectively
• Ability to advise on efficient and smooth running of specialist service
• Ability to manage and lead the Anaesthesia firm and multi-disciplinary team
• Experience of audit management and conducting clinical audit
• Ability to use the evidence based and clinical audit to support decision making

Desirable

• Ability to manage and lead specialist unit and working parties as appropriate

Research Experience

Essential

• Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems
• An awareness of current specialty specific developments and initiatives
• Successful completion of a research Good Clinical Practice course or update within the last 2 years

Desirable

• Publications in relevant peer-reviewed journals in the last 5 years
• Evidence of having undertaken original research

Teaching Experience

Essential

• Ability to teach clinical skills to medical, nursing staff and other disciplines
• Experience of teaching clinical skills to undergraduates and postgraduates

Desirable

• Ability to supervise postgraduate research
• ALS, ATLS, APLS, EPALS Instructor status
• MMedEd or equivalent
• Ability to supervise postgraduate research

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