Job summary
- Main area
- Intensive Care
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week (PAs 10-10.45 dependant upon job plan)
- Job ref
- MPLBJ698
- Employer
- North Bristol NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North Bristol Trust Southmead Hospital
- Town
- Bristol
- Salary
- £99,532 - £131,964 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/08/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 24/09/2024
Employer heading
Consultant: Intensive Care Medicine+/-Anaesthesia+/-Critical Care Transfer Medicine
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
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Job overview
North Bristol NHS Trust
Southmead Hospital, Bristol
Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine
Applications are invited for a posts in Intensive Care Medicine at one of Europe’s leading hospital sites at Southmead Hospital, Bristol. Applicants who wish to undertake partner specialty work in anaesthesia and/or critical care transfer medicine will be welcome.
Main duties of the job
The posts will be based in the purpose built 46 bed Intensive Care Unit (ICU). The post holder will have a dedicated ICU week and on-call responsibility to the ICU only. The successful applicants will join a team of 23 Consultant Intensivists, and around 40 Postgraduate Doctors in Training.
Working for our organisation
The 46 bed Southmead Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is now one of the busiest ICUs in the country, with a team of over 300 staff treating more than 2500 critically ill patients each year. Within the team we currently have 23 Consultant Intensivists and around 40 Postgraduate Doctors in Training. Southmead ICU is the regional specialist critical care centre for neurosurgery, interventional neuroradiology and stroke thrombectomy, neurology, renal medicine, trauma and orthopaedics (including revision joint replacement, complex spinal and pelvic surgery) and urology. It hosts the Severn Network Major Trauma Centre, the Bristol, Bath and Weston Vascular Hub and the South-West Burns Network. It delivers some of the highest intensive care and major trauma survival rates in the country.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Unit has a strategy for development aligned with the Trust strategy. Briefly this encompasses 5 domains: delivery of exceptional care for patients, investing in the ICU workforce, supporting expanding Trust services, developing the Unit’s Research and Innovation programme, and improving collaboration with both internal and external stakeholders. We are looking for enthusiastic Consultant Intensivists to help deliver this Strategy and enhance Critical Care in Bristol at a pivotal time for the specialty.
The ICU is divided into 4 ‘pods’ of 12 beds, with 2 Simulation bed spaces. It has excellent adjacencies to the emergency department, 24 operating theatres including a vascular hybrid theatre and another with capability for intra-operative MRI scanning, and 4 interventional radiology suites with both 24-hour Interventional Radiology and Interventional Neuroradiology cover.
The post will be based in the ICU and the postholder will have a regular dedicated ICU week and on-call responsibility to the ICU only. The frequency of this commitment will depend upon the wishes of the successful candidate and requirements of the department but will vary from 1 in 4 weeks on ICU (full time ICU) to 1 in 6 weeks on ICU, with the balance of work being made up in anaesthesia or transfer medicine.
The ICU is part of the South-West Critical Care Network, and submits its data to ICNARC and ICCQIP
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- FFICM or equivalent
- Full and unresticted registration with the GMC
- CCT in Intensive Care Medicine and have been entered on the GMC Specialist Register at the time of the appointment (specialist registrars that do not hold a CCT must be due to be awarded one within 6 months of the interview date
Desirable criteria
- Higher academic qualification (e.g. MD or MS)
Training And Experience
Essential criteria
- Recent experience and familiarity of UK hospital systems and practices (or equivalent).
- Minimum of 7 years postgraduate experience including higher surgical/medical training, three years as a Senior Registrar in an approved training post, or equivalent. Part of this period may be in a post of equivalent responsibility and training potential
- Training in diagnosis and treatment of Conditions and subspecialties relevant to NBT patient mix
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of extensive experience in sub-specialties reflected in the job description
- Expertise acquired during training that would augment existing and / or add novel expertise to the delivery of quality Critical Care at NBT
Further Training, Management, Audit
Essential criteria
- Evidence of recent CME/ reasonable training progression at this stage of career
- Knowledge of contemporary NHS management issues
- Knowledge of political context within which we operate
- Experience in audit project and written up
Desirable criteria
- Completion of a general management course or programme
Research, Teaching, Publications
Essential criteria
- Proven teaching ability.
- Willingness to undertake teaching of medical under-graduates & postgraduates
Desirable criteria
- Proven track record in research
- Willingness to undertake further research
- Ability to teach effectively
- Evidence of relevant publications in peer reviewed journals
- Demonstration of involvement in clinical directorate management
- Ability to gain the trust and confidence of colleagues and patients
Leadership and Teamwork
Essential criteria
- Proven ability to build and maintain effective teams
- Have a positive attitude towards members of the wider healthcare team
- Evidence of positive development and change management
- An understanding of positive leadership in the context of healthcare
- Evidence of good organisational and compassionate leadership skills
Communication skills
Essential criteria
- Is empathetic and sensitive to the needs of others including patients and colleagues
- An ability to explain complex and sensitive information, sometimes under stressful circumstances to others
- Must be able to influence and persuade effectively
- Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills in order to write and present management reports as required
Other
Essential criteria
- Must reside within 30 minutes or ten miles from the principal place of work
- Must hold the appropriate Home Office work/residence status in order to provide work in the UK
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
- Dr Chris Newell
- Job title
- ICU Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0117 9505050
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