Job summary
- Main area
- Intensive care
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 289-PCD-LCON-0342
- Employer
- Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- CW site
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £93,666 - £126,281 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Locum Consultant Intensive Care
NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
About our Trust
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is proud to be one of the top performing and safest trusts in England. We have two main acute hospital sites—Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, plus our award-winning clinics across North West London and beyond.
Our nearly 7,000 members of staff are proud to care for a diverse population of 1.5 million from the beginning to the end of life. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including maternity, emergency and children’s, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, including our award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.
We’re one of the safest and best performing Trusts in the country. We’re also one of the top trusts to work for—our staff say they’re engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.
Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as ‘Good’ in the domains of safe, effective, caring and responsive, and 'Outstanding' in the domains of well-led and use of resources.
Our facilities are among the best in the country. We invest around £10m a year in our estate and have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster. Works commence in spring 2024 on an ambitious £80m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at our West Middlesex site.
Applications are welcomed from applicants who wish to apply for the position on the basis of a smarter or flexible working arrangement. Where candidates are successful at interview, such requests will be taken under consideration and accommodated where the needs of the service allow. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you.
Job overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic and self-motivated consultant to join our department as a Locum Consultant in Intensive Care covering maternity leave, starting August 2024.
Chelsea and Westminster Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the best performing Trusts in the country and, on the Chelsea site, has 20-bedded adult intensive care and a 2-bedded Burns Intensive Care facility. Some experience with critical care of severe burn-injured patients is desirable. Presently, 13 AICU beds are commissioned, and there are around 600 admissions per year to the ICU. The hospital performs a range of surgeries including colorectal, bariatrics and plastic surgical service. The hospital is a referral centre for high-risk obstetric patients. We have one of the largest HIV services in Europe and we are the only Burns centre in London.
Main duties of the job
In addition to the dedicated ICU consultant rota, there is a trainee resident rota on ICU comprising a mix of anaesthesia, emergency medicine and medicine based doctors with trainees from Anaesthesia at CT3 level or greater out of hours as well as resident FY2+ junior. We are supported by a 24-hour Critical Care Outreach Team and the hospital at night team, as well as the anaesthetic department as required.
Working for our organisation
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is proud to be one of the top performing and safest trusts in England.
We have two main acute hospital sites—Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, plus our award-winning clinics across North West London and beyond.
- We employ over 7,000 staff and 500 volunteers
- We treat someone in A&E every 90 seconds
- We deliver a baby every 50 minutes
- We operate on a patient every 16 minutes
- We do 50 imaging procedures each hour
- We serve a diverse population of 1.5 million from the beginning to the end of life
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful candidate would join the Intensive Care Unit on-call rota (1:8). It is expected that the successful candidate will join MDT meetings (to discuss long-term patients) on some Wednesday afternoons in their non-ICU cover weeks. A central expectation of the successful candidate would be to undertake a leading role in the development and support of services within the umbrella of Critical Care. This may include co-developing an in-house advanced critical care practitioner programme; working on Cerner (EPR); continuing to develop a Post-ICU rehabilitation services; supporting the Outreach Team.
We would support the successful appointee to continue to practice any secondary specialty CCT qualifications such as Anaesthesia, Medicine or Emergency Medicine by facilitating sessions in these departments.
There is a local mentorship programme for newly appointed locum consultants within the Department.
The successful appointee would be expected to actively support and join activities on the ICU including quarterly M&M, Board meetings, weekly Mortality reviews (concurrent with MDT), and twice yearly cross site clinical governance meeting when Audit and Quality Improvement Projects are presented.
There will be a level of expectation of cross site working at West Middlesex Hospital ICU in emergency situations or as part of a regular Job Plan.
Chelsea ICU participates in ICNARC, and works closely within the North-West London Critical Care Network.
Person specification
Trust Values
Essential criteria
- Putting patients first
- Responsive to, and supportive of, patients and staff
- Open, welcoming and honest
- Unfailingly kind, treating everyone with respect, compassion and dignity
- Determined to develop our skills and continuously improve the quality of care
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Full Registration with GMC
- CCT in Intensive Care Medicine or equivalent (or within 6 months of inclusion on Specialist register at time of interview)
Desirable criteria
- MRCP or equivalent
- FRCA or equivalent
- Higher Degree
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience with management of high-risk patients
- Implementation of Audit and Quality Improvement Processes
- Experience teaching, training and supervising junior doctors
Desirable criteria
- Involvement in Innovation projects
- Previous consultant-level experience
- Understanding and involvement in Ethics and Governance
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience in intensive care medicine
- Excellent communication, presentation and influencing skills
- Ability to participate in and lead multidisciplinary Critical Care team
- Ability to work with colleagues in a team and delegate appropriately
- Good IT skills
- Highly organised, self –motivated, track record of achieving sustained change
- Commitment to continuing personal development and medical education
Desirable criteria
- Experience in burns intensive care
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Alice Sisson
- Job title
- Clinical Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
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