Specialist in Critical Care

NHS; Sutton-in-Ashfield; On-site; GBP 96,000 - 108,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic and supportive team at an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust, where you will provide critical care to a diverse patient population. This role offers the opportunity to work alongside experienced consultants in a collaborative environment, focusing on quality assurance and improvement in patient care. You will play a vital role in the delivery and development of the Critical Care service, engaging in teaching and leadership while contributing to research initiatives. If you are passionate about making a difference in healthcare and thrive in a team-oriented setting, this position is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Must have completed at least twelve years' full-time post-graduate training.
• Current Advanced Life Support accreditation is essential.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the Critical Care Consultant on-call rota.
• Engage fully with developing medical leadership.

Skills

Critical Care Medicine

Advanced Life Support

Teaching

Management & Leadership

Research

Education

Entry on GMC Specialist Register

Completed Stage 2 training in ICM

Higher ICM module or equivalent

College or Faculty Diploma (e.g., FFICM, MRCP)

Job description

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

You will join a supportive and friendly multi-disciplinary team, including doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, cleaning/domestic staff, dieticians, microbiology/infection control, pharmacists, and admin staff, that values good team-working and safe, efficient and compassionate patient care. Our therapies team has expanded with the addition of colleagues in speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, and psychology, all with dedicated Critical Care time.

The Critical Care team is led by nine Critical Care Consultants plus one Specialist in Critical Care. As part of the Department of Anaesthetics, with a total establishment of thirty-one Consultants. The trainee establishment consists of ten Stage 1 and seven Stage 2/3 trainees rotating from the East Midlands School of Anaesthesia (EMSA). We also host ICM specialty trainees in Stages 1 and 2, and have recently commenced Stage 3/advanced ICM placements.

The post holder will participate in the Critical Care Consultant on-call rota for out-of-hours activity. 'On-call' will be on a 1 in 8 rota, including weekends with prospective cover. (Consultants will be expected to cross cover colleagues' leave in order to cover the Critical Care Medicine service).

The successful candidate will be contracted to Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and based at King's Mill Hospital.

Main duties of the job

We would like you to commit to providing safe and effective care, as part of a supportive, cohesive team with a strong ethos of quality assurance and improvement. We would expect you to play a full and active part in the delivery and development of our Critical Care service and relationships with our partner specialties and teams.

As a Specialist, whether newly appointed or moving from another hospital, you will also engage fully with developing yourselves in medical leadership.

About us

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust providing acute and community healthcare services for 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark, Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire. We are working closely with partners in health and social care through the Mid Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Partnership to take collective responsibility for managing resources, delivering NHS standards, and improving the health of the population we serve.

We put the patient at the centre of everything that we do, and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind, and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically led organisation.

In the past four years, our staff engagement scores have been the best for Acute Trusts in the Midlands.

Job responsibilities

To see the full detailed job description and main responsibilities of the job please refer to the job description attached

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Entry on GMC Specialist Register; (or within six months of receipt of CCT/CESR/CESR-CP at time of interview)
• Completed Stage 2 training in ICM or equivalent (minimum 12 months ICM)
• Higher ICM module or equivalent or current employment as Consultant in ICM in the NHS
• College or Faculty Diploma (eg FFICM, MRCP, FRCEM, FRCA)
• FFICM, EDIC, DICM
• Stage 3/Advanced training in ICM or equivalent

Experience

• Experience requisite to meeting all aspects of the job plan
• Must have completed at least twelve years' full-time post-graduate training (or equivalent gained on a part-time or flexible basis) with a minimum of six years in Critical Care in the Specialty Doctor or equivalent grade
• 12 months or more anaesthetic experience
• Ability to maintain clinical credibility and authority with a multi-professional team including senior trainees
• Training / experience in Neuro/ Paediatric/ Cardiac Intensive Care Medicine (as per Stage 2 FICM or equivalent)
• Successfully completed at least 2 years of Intensive Care Medicine e.g. training, fellowship, MTI, and at worked at senior training level (ST5+) in ICM
• Current Advanced Life Support accreditation
• Extensive experience in Intensive Care Medicine or equivalent
• APLS, ATLS or similar
• Additional/out of programme experience in Intensive Care Medicine including advanced training/fellowship
• Extended training in Echocardiography / Ultrasound

Teaching

• Evidence of effectively organising and delivering teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level
• Demonstrable ability as a teacher with evidence of training for the role

Management

• Ability to effectively organise and manage clinical workload
• Trained/undertaken quality assurance or audit projects within Critical Care
• Trained/undertaken quality improvement projects within Critical Care
• Management & Leadership CPD aligned to current healthcare practice
• Experience in Management & Leadership roles

Research

• Ability to convert research evidence into clinical practice
• Publications in peer-reviewed journals
• Participation in research relating to Intensive Care Medicine

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.

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£96,990 to £107,155 a year pro rata per annum