Job summary
- Main area
- Intensive care
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (1:12 rota)
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 289-PCD-LCON-0348-A
- Employer
- Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- CW site
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Locum Consultant Intensive Care Medicine & Anaesthetics CW
NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
Job overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic and self-motivated consultant to join our department as a Locum Consultant in Intensive Care and Anaesthetics to support expansion of our ICU and anaesthetic workforce, starting February 2025.
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 resident specialist trainee rota on ICU comprising a mix of anaesthesia, emergency medicine and medicine based doctors with trainees from anaesthesia at CT3+ level out of hours as well as resident FY2+ doctors on an SHO rota. 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) and do anaesthetic sessions in non-ICU weeks per the timetable below. It is expected that the successful candidate will also 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 service; supporting the Outreach Team.
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 patients and staff
- Open and honest
- Unfailingly kind
- Determined to develop
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)
- FRCA or equivalent
- FFICM or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- MRCP 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
- Experience in Anaesthetics
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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