Job summary
- Main area
- Intensive Care
- Grade
- Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 050-YGC-ICU-0524
- Employer
- Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Glan Clwyd Hospital
- Town
- Bodelwyddan
- Salary
- £91,722 - £119,079 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine
Consultant
If you relish a challenge, have a passion to help others or simply fancy a fresh start, then Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) North Wales, has all the right ingredients. The largest health organisation in Wales, providing a full range of primary, community, mental health, acute and elective hospital services for a population of around 700,000, across North Wales . Join our team and get the support you need, in line with our Organisational Values and ‘Proud to Lead’ competence framework.
Enjoy being part of working with engaged leadership at all levels, and be assured we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and are proud to welcome applicants under the “Disability Confident Employer” scheme. We also offer a number of family-friendly benefits, including work-life balance policies.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
Applications may be submitted in Welsh. Applications submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed
Job overview
Glan Clwyd Hospital is seeking new consultants in critical care. We are offering an excellent opportunity for a fulfilling consultant post in a beautiful but well-connected rural location.The full-time vacancies are for ten programmed activities (10 PA) per week based at Glan Clwyd Hospital in Bodelwyddan in North Wales. It is anticipated seven sessions will be for direct clinical care (DCC) and three for supporting professional activities (SPA), in-line with the Consultant contract for Wales. We are happy to discuss requests to work less than full time either before or after interview according to candidates’ preferences. Additional contracted clinical sessions may also be offered to successful candidates, subject to mutual agreement and satisfactory job-planning.
Most of our existing critical care consultants are from an anaesthetic background, but our most recent appointee is an intensivist working exclusively in critical care. We would be delighted to consider applications from other single specialty ICM consultants or those with other second specialties, such as emergency medicine.
Main duties of the job
Daily cover on critical care comprises 2 consultants present all day, along with junior tiers. The 2 consultants act as consultants of the week, running the critical care unit from Monday to Sunday. This week is then followed by an uncontracted week when the consultant is not required to be at work (for clinical or SPA activities). The critical care unit currently has 8 consultants, working 1 in 4
weeks as consultant of the week. Recruitment of additional consultants will reduce this frequency.
Daytime clinical activity in subsequent weeks contains a mixture of theatre lists (for anaesthetists) and occasional critical care days depending on study leave/sickness cover. For applicants with other second specialities, clinical sessions in their relevant specialty can be considered e.g. Emergency medicine or transfer medicine.
Out of hours work comprises duties covering the critical care unit as part of the critical care consultant on-call rota, 1 in 8 with prospective cover. Again, subject to new appointments, the aim is to reduce the out-of-hours commitment to a 1 in 12 rota.
Working for our organisation
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) is the largest health organisation in Wales, with a budget of £1.7 billion and a workforce of over 19,000 staff. The Health Board provides primary, community, mental health and acute hospital services for the population of North Wales.
BCUHB provides a full range of primary, community, mental health, acute and specialist hospital services across 3 acute hospitals, 22 community hospitals and a network of over 90 health centres, clinics, community health team bases and mental health units. BCUHB also coordinates or provides the work of 113 GP practices and the NHS services provided by dentists, opticians and pharmacists across the region.
The Health Board is an integrated health system which strives to excellent compassionate care delivered in partnership with the public and other statutory and third sector organisations. BCUHB has a developed relationship with the universities in North Wales and with the University of Bangor is seeking medical school status and operates in a research-rich learning culture.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Candidates are encouraged to refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Name on specialist register
- proof of eligibility of entry onto specialist register
- within six months of obtaining a CCT at the time of the interview.
Desirable criteria
- CCT in intensive care medicine
- Fellowship of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FFICM),
- European Diploma in Intensive Care / UK Diploma in Intensive Care Medicine (DICM)
- FRCA
- Other post graduate qualifications
Training
Essential criteria
- Wide training background relevant for the job
- Basic IT Skills
Desirable criteria
- Completion of a UK specialist training programme
- Competency in paediatric resuscitation and stabilisation
- ALS, ATLS, APLS or equivalent
- Training in echocardiography (FICE or equivalent)
- ECDL
- Advanced IT skills (e.g. App or website design)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Broad based general experience in critical care
Desirable criteria
- Experience at consultant level
- Clinical experience in anaesthesia
- Specialist skills or experience
- Out-of-programme experience in a clinical area relevant to the job
- Evidence of taking consultant-level responsibility
Quality Improvement and Audit
Essential criteria
- Evidence of participation in quality improvement or audit projects
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of completed audit or quality improvement projects that have changed practice
Teaching
Essential criteria
- Experience of teaching trainees
- Evidence of a commitment to teaching trainees
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of teaching nursing and paramedical staff and medical students
- Teaching course
- Teaching qualification
- Accredited trainer e.g. for ATLS, FICE
- Experience of using simulation in medical education
Research
Desirable criteria
- Critical appraisal course / skills
- Evidence of participation in research.
- Publications in peer-reviewed journals, e.g. letters, case reports.
- Posters displayed at scientific meetings
- Abstracts presented at scientific meetings
- Research-based publications in peer- reviewed journals
Team working
Essential criteria
- Open and approachable and willing to give and to receive feedback
- A team player that values the individual contributions of a multi-disciplinary team
- Reliable, self- motivated and punctual
- Evidence of the ability to work in stressful situations and/or when under pressure
Desirable criteria
- Able to work flexibly both in time and place
- A willingness to work outside normal working hours at short notice in times of need
- A willingness to explore new ways of working
Management and Leadership
Essential criteria
- Evidence of understanding of NHS management practices
- A willingness to become a clinical leader in any area of specialist interest within the job
- A willingness to attend and actively participate in departmental management meetings
Desirable criteria
- Management course
- Involvement with a management project
- Experience of departmental administration
- Experience of rostering
- Experience of managing a budget in the workplace
- Experience of organisational change and service re-design
- Willingness to take forward anaesthesia and critical care services within the health board and wider health economy
Communication with patients, carers and colleagues
Essential criteria
- Safe and effective oral communication skills
- Willingness to involve patients in their management
- Ability to handle difficult interviews with patients or their carers with tact and sensitivity
- Excellent command of written and verbal English
Desirable criteria
- Welsh Speaker
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Gareth Mula
- Job title
- Consultant Anaesthetist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01745 448788
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