Job summary
- Main area
- Intensive Care
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 356-24-6120971
- Employer
- Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- HRI
- Town
- Hull
- Salary
- £99,532 - £131,964 PA PR
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant in Intensive Care
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Job overview
This post will help meet the growing demand for both emergency and elective critical care capacity. The appointee(s) will add to a current team of 16 intensive care consultants who cover the 3 general critical care units in the trust.
Main duties of the job
The appointee will contribute to the delivery of consultant led critical care across the two main hospital sites. Their job will include dedicated critical care time with twice daily teaching ICU ward rounds, and critical care outreach supporting the wider hospital and Emergency Department with the resuscitation and stabilisation of adult, paediatric and major trauma patients.
The appointee will be expected to contribute to the clinical governance activity of the department including audit, research, teaching, policy review and development, and monthly morbidity and mortality meetings.
The job plan may also include time in a second specialty (such as anaesthesia, emergency medicine, major trauma, or medicine), or to support an interest such as research or education. The appointee will take part in a dedicated 1:8 on call for general critical care.
Working for our organisation
Hull University Teaching Hospitals is part of one of the largest acute and community Group arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) and Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) - our Group has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites, are Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH and Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLaG.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Group and our community.
Should we receive a high volume of applications the advert may be closed earlier than stated. To view a full job description and person specification please see attachments on this advert.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
This position has been defined as 'difficult to recruit to', in accordance with our HUTH Trust Relocation Policy; therefore the successful candidate may be eligible to claim up to £8,000 in relocation expenses, subject to individual circumstances. Further information is available on request.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- Evidence of having completed a formal training program in Intensive Care Medicine
- FFICM
- Valid Advanced Life Support (ALS) certification
Desirable criteria
- FRCA, MRCP, FRCEM
- PGC(H)E, MA(Ed) or similar
- FICE/FUSIC accreditation
Professional Registration
Essential criteria
- Full Registration with the GMC
- GMC Specialist Registration (or expected inclusion within 6 months)
Clinical Experience
Essential criteria
- Clinical experience equivalent to completion of a formal training program in Intensive Care Medicine
Desirable criteria
- Specialist experience over and above that gained as part of the ICM training program such as: - Advanced echocardiography - Transfer/prehospital care - Greater than 12 months FTE neurointensive care
Management and Administration Experience
Essential criteria
- Ability to lead on smooth and efficient running of the unit
- Ability to organise, prioritise and manage high intensity workload
Desirable criteria
- Experience of leading improvement programmes, implementing change and monitoring compliance
Teaching, Audit and Research
Essential criteria
- Experience of supervising junior medical staff
- Commitment to formal and informal teaching of medical staff, AHPs and medical students
- Evidence of participation in audit
- Ability to extrapolate clinical research evidence to care for individual patients
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of having conducted a practice-changing audit
- Experience of teaching/ training in clinical courses e.g. IMPACT Course Faculty, ALS Instructor, ALERT Instructor
- Good Clinical Practice (GCP) Certification
- Original peer-reviewed research publications
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Ability to work flexibly in a changing health service
- Ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, nurses and other health professionals and flex style as appropriate
- High level of verbal and written communication skills
- Demonstrate the ability to cope under pressure
- Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional and national levels
Desirable criteria
- Ability to communicate effectively with external agencies and other disciplines
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
- Tom Eckersley
- Job title
- Clinical Lead ICU
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01482 311739
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