Senior Locally Employed Doctor in Intensive Care

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust; Manchester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A major NHS Trust in Manchester is seeking a Senior Locally Employed Doctor in Intensive Care. The role involves working in the Intensive Care Unit alongside consultant colleagues, with opportunities for clinical training and participation in audits. Candidates must have a medical degree and relevant experience, including Advanced Life Support and Anaesthesia. This position provides an educational environment focused on development and patient care.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years experience in intensive care medicine or related specialties.
• Good breadth and depth clinical knowledge of Critical Care appropriate to level medical training.
• Formal training and experience in Anaesthesia.

Responsibilities

• Support consultant and trainee colleagues in Critical Care.
• Provide out of hours resident cover on a full shift basis.
• Participate in educational programmes and teaching.

Skills

Communication Skills

Organisation Skills

Experience of Audit

Teaching of Medical Students

Education

Primary Medical Degree

Advanced Life Support

Primary FRCA (or equivalent)

Job description

Senior Locally Employed Doctor in Intensive Care

The closing date is 30 September 2025.

The appointee will work across the Intensive Care Unit, gaining clinical experience reflecting their training ambitions and needs. The role will combine working alongside and supporting consultant and trainee colleagues in Critical Care while providing out of hours resident cover on a full shift basis on an EWTD compliant rota. This post is suitable for individuals seeking a period of higher experience in Intensive Care Medicine to develop their skills.

All trainees have weekly bleep-free educational time. The programme is multi-faceted and incorporates face-to-face consultant-led teaching on topics relevant to critical care, simulation scenarios and critical appraisal of key papers. Electronic learning resources are also available. Opportunities exist to participate in the department's active audit, teaching and research programmes subject to the interests of the applicant. This post is suitable for either UK medical graduates, those from the European Economic Area or international candidates (international candidates see section 2 below).

Main duties of the job

Successful doctors will be appointed to the EWTD compliant full shift rota. This shift pattern will be constructed over an average 7 week cycle in accordance with the rota template.

Example templates can be made available to interested candidates.

Our Critical Care service is one of the longest established units in the country. Initially this was only as an Intensive Care Unit. As years progressed, a separate High Dependency Unit was built and opened at the tail end of the 1990s. Recent building work has created a combined Critical Care service operating from the Critical Care Ward. The combined number of admissions for level 2 and level 3 care in the past 12 months was 359 patients.

Critical Care unit has 12 critical care beds which are split as 6 intensive care beds and 6 high dependency beds. There is some flexibility that can allow this to be adapted according to clinical need, increasing the number of level 3 patients.

Training in Ultrasound is available with mentors in both FICE and Thoracic Ultrasound. There is an active educational programme for trainees from a variety of different training programmes and the service Intensive Care Medicine (ICM) doctors, with ICM tutorials once a week, daily teaching wards rounds, and a weekly ICM Grand Round and Journal Club.

About us

MFT is England's largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £3bn and is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we've launched in September 2022.

We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing, and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Job responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity, and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at [e-mail].

Were looking forward to hearing from you!

Person Specification

Qualifications & Training

• Primary Medical Degree
• Minimum 4 years experience in intensive care medicine or related specialties
• Advanced Life Support
• Good breadth and depth clinical knowledge of Critical Care appropriate to level medical training
• Primary FRCA (or equivalent)
• Formal training and experience in Anaesthesia

Other Requirements

• Full registration (or eligible for full registration) with the General Medical Council

Teaching/Audit

• Experience of Audit and Quality improvement
• Teaching of Medical Students

Academic Achievements

• Distinctions or Prizes during undergraduate training
• Research & Publications

Interpersonal Skills

• Organisation Skills
• Communication Skills

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.

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust