Specialty Doctor in Critical Care

Division of Surgery – BHRUT NHS; Romford; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity exists for a Specialty Doctor in Critical Care at a leading NHS Trust in Romford. Join a dynamic team delivering high-quality patient care while participating in critical care, anaesthesia, and educational initiatives, contributing to a supportive environment in a growing organization.

Qualifications

• Applicants must have appropriate UK professional registration.
• Evidence of higher/advanced level training in Intensive Care Medicine is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality, critical care service in collaboration with anaesthetics.
• Contribute to both emergency and elective anaesthesia services.
• Participate in postgraduate education for staff and deputies in colleagues' absence.

Skills

Critical Care

General Anaesthesia

Education

MBBS or equivalent

4 years full time postgraduate training

Fully GMC registered with a licence to practise

12 months in critical care training post

Job description

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Division of Surgery – BHRUT NHS

Location:

Romford, United Kingdom

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Posted:

02.07.2025

Expiry Date:

16.08.2025

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Job overview

The Trust seeks to appoint a Speciality Doctor in Critical Care. This is a permanent post and applicants will be expected to have suitable experience within Critical Care.

The new appointee will share the case-load, facilities and trainee grade support with the existing Speciality Doctors.

You will be joining a dynamic and forward thinking team of doctors and the division of Anaesthesia at BHRUT provides anaesthetic, critical care and acute and chronic pain services for the local population. This takes the form of elective and emergency anaesthesia supporting the broad range of surgical specialties that the Trust provides; critical care services including a consultant lead critical care outreach team; acute pain ward rounds; and outpatient clinics for chronic pain, anaesthetic pre-assessment and critical care follow-up.

The job advert will close early if sufficient applications are received.

Main duties of the job

• 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.

Working for our organisation

We’re an organisation that is getting better and betterand ourimprovements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with. We’re no longer in ; we’ve opened at our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, was named by the Health Service Journal in 2024.

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 and get rid of corridor care.

Our patients are benefitting from our in Ilford; an in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at and at in Hornchurch.

These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and are providing an extra 94,000 scans a year.

The majority of our 8,000 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 and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited . We’re proud to be a employer.

We’re looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.

Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.

Person specification

Qualification

• MBBS or equivalent
• Must have completed at least 4 years full time postgraduate training
• Fully GMC registered with a licence to practise
• Evidence of higher/advanced level training in Intensive Care Medicine or equivalent.
• 12 months in critical care training post.
• Broad experience of general anaesthesia and analgesia

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.

Job overview

The Trust seeks to appoint a Speciality Doctor in Critical Care. This is a permanent post and applicants will be expected to have suitable experience within Critical Care.

The new appointee will share the case-load, facilities and trainee grade support with the existing Speciality Doctors.

You will be joining a dynamic and forward thinking team of doctors and the division of Anaesthesia at BHRUT provides anaesthetic, critical care and acute and chronic pain services for the local population. This takes the form of elective and emergency anaesthesia supporting the broad range of surgical specialties that the Trust provides; critical care services including a consultant lead critical care outreach team; acute pain ward rounds; and outpatient clinics for chronic pain, anaesthetic pre-assessment and critical care follow-up.

The job advert will close early if sufficient applications are received.

Main duties of the job

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.

Working for our organisation

We’re an organisation that is getting better and betterand ourimprovements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with. We’re no longer in ; we’ve opened at our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, was named by the Health Service Journal in 2024.

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 and get rid of corridor care.

Our patients are benefitting from our in Ilford; an in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at and at in Hornchurch.

These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and are providing an extra 94,000 scans a year.

The majority of our 8,000 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 and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited . We’re proud to be a employer.

We’re looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.

Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.

Person specification

Qualification

Essential criteria

MBBS or equivalent

Must have completed at least 4 years full time postgraduate training

Fully GMC registered with a licence to practise

Desirable criteria

Evidence of higher/advanced level training in Intensive Care Medicine or equivalent.

12 months in critical care training post.

Broad experience of general anaesthesia and analgesia

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.