Job overview

Basingstoke Critical Care is excited to offer two posts for experienced Critical Care doctors wanting to develop their skills within Critical Care and beyond.

These posts are central to delivering effective patient care at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and form part of our exciting new strategy to expand the delivery of our national peritoneal malignancy program. The post will be based in Basingstoke Critical Care Units and will involve working a full on-call pattern withing Basingstoke Critical Care with opportunity to develop additional skills in Anaesthetics as agreed with the Critical Care Department.

We have 18 Critical Care beds across 2 units (CCA and CCB) looking after the full range of medical specialties including supporting a 24 hour PCI service. In addition to this we run the largest cytoreductive surgical program in the UK for patients with primary colorectal and appendix tumours including Pseudomyxoma Peritonei (over 300 patients annually).

The successful applicants for these two posts will have arrange of educational opportunities available to them including gaining some anaesthetic and airway management skills that may aid transition to a career in Anaesthesia, developing their POCUS skills, or undertaking research into major surgical perioperative care in conjunction with the Peritoneal Malignancy Institute.

Main duties of the job

A formal job plan will be agreed between the appointee and the clinical supervisor. The principal component of this job is to hold one of 8 posts covering a 24/7 rota in Critical Care. We use a bespoke rota design software package (DB rotas) that means that these shifts are not necessarily in a rolling 1:8 basis but allow the holders to request working patterns around leave requests and other prior commitments.

Duties will include being part of the Senior Critical Care rota overseeing emergency admissions from the wards, the Emergency Department, Theatres and the Cath Lab. Additionally we will expect you to partake in ICU handover, regular ICU ward rounds, invasive procedures on ICU, and also to undertake quality improvement work and contribute to the educational program for the junior medical team. Out of hours you will be supported by a consultant in intensive care and consultant general anaesthetist, both non-resident.

For those post holders interested in furthering their Anaesthetic skills there could be opportunities across a range of surgical disciplines including General Surgery, Peritoneal Malignancy, Urology, ENT, O&G, Paediatrics and Trauma & Orthopaedics.

Working for our organisation

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.

Tackling Climate Change: Hampshire Hospitals aims to embed sustainability and net zero carbon principles into the delivery of care across all its services. To find out more, search HHFT Climate Action or [email protected].