Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine

Job Overview

We have been assigned by one of the UK's more prestigious NHS Trusts to help them recruit a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine on either a Substantive or an NHS Fixed Term basis for 12 months to join their successful Medicine department. The client's Intensive Care Unit currently comprises a 20-bedded Adult Unit which can flexibly supply both Level 3 and Level 2 care. It has approximately 600 admissions per year that are both surgical and medical in origin. We also have a busy Accident and Emergency department. The Intensive Care Unit functions as a closed unit with close ties to other intensive care facilities through the North West Thames Critical Care Network. It is recognised as a unit performing to the highest standards and has been in receipt of 2 Charter Mark Awards and a Customer Service Excellence award over the last 12 years as well as a CQC Outstanding rating in 2020. The unit has an enviable reputation in terms of both teaching and research and these are regarded as strengths it would continue to prioritise. In addition to the main ICU area, there is a 2-bedded burns intensive care which the Intensive Care consultants jointly manage with Burns Surgical colleagues. The Burns Unit is a regional centre taking the highest complexity of burn injured patients. The existing team of ICU consultants work in a highly integrated way which is an important factor in both the quality and continuity of patient care.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the competencies required to carry out the duties of the post.
• Support and continue practice of secondary specialty CCT such as Anaesthesia, Medicine or Emergency Medicine by facilitating sessions in these departments.
• Actively support and join ICU activities including quarterly M&M, board meetings, weekly mortality reviews, twice yearly cross site clinical governance meetings, and MDT meetings to discuss long term patients on Wednesday afternoons during non ICU cover weeks.
• Play a leading role in the development and support of services within the umbrella of Critical Care, including supporting the critical care outreach team, co developing an in house advanced critical care practitioner programme, leading ICU POCUS education programme, developing a Post ICU rehabilitation service, and becoming the ICU liaison lead for obstetric patients.
• Assist in teaching duties with junior medical staff within the department.

Additional Information

• Will consider full time or part time
• 10 P.A's
• Prestigious NHS Trust
• A well supported & friendly team
• Must have GMC Registration

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