Job summary
- Main area
- Anaesthetics
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 252-2025-028
- Employer
- Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Dartford NHS Trust
- Town
- Dartford
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant in Adult Intensive Care Medicine
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Job overview
This is a job advertisement for a Substantive Consultant in Adult Intensive Care medicine. This is open to anyone with on the GMC specialist register for Intensive Care Medicine. Any dual CCT candidates are welcome to apply and we will do our best to accommodate the other speciality of interest in the Hospital including anaesthesia / acute medicine / emergency medicine.
Main duties of the job
This role involves caring for all adult critically ill patients at Darent Valley Hospital, whether they are in or outside the ICU (Critical Care without Boundaries). These duties can be generally divided into a hot week component, outreach component, and on-call component.
The hot week on ICU is a 4.5-day block commitment, including 4 full days (0800-1900) from Monday to Thursday and a half day on Friday (0800-1400). The handover to the on-call consultant starts at 1800 from Monday to Thursday and at 1300 on Friday. The current frequency is 1:10. Consultants do not take any leave during this week to maintain continuity of care.
Working for our organisation
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust (DGT) is a dynamic and transforming Trust, committed to delivering the highest quality service to the communities it serves. DGT is an organisation that is genuinely committed to making you feel valued and important by supporting your physical and mental wellbeing, your career development and your general enjoyment of work.
There is an excellent Postgraduate Centre at Darent Valley Hospital. This provides lecture and tutorial rooms and a dining room. Numerous meetings for Hospital Doctors and General Practitioners are held at the centre. There are regular educational sessions and meetings covering Case Presentation, Journal club, Histopathology joint meetings, General, Urological and Vascular X-ray meetings and Mammography Meetings.
We committed to the concepts of equality and diversity. You are required to fulfil your responsibilities under this policy and to ensure that no individual receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of their gender, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, religion, creed, colour, race, ethnic or national origin, HIV status, age, social background, trade union membership or non-membership and is not placed at a disadvantage by requirements or conditions which cannot be shown to be justifiable.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
A formal job plan will be agreed between the appointee and their Clinical Director on behalf of the Medical Director, after the commencement date of the appointee.
The job plans will then be reviewed annually, following the Appraisal Meeting. The Job Plan will be a prospective agreement that sets out a consultant’s duties, responsibilities and objectives for the coming year. It should cover all aspects of a consultant’s professional practice including clinical work, teaching, research, education and managerial responsibilities. It should provide a clear schedule of commitments, both internal and external. In addition, it should include personal objectives, including details of their link to wider service goals and details of the support required by the consultant to fulfil the job plan and his/her objectives.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MBBS or equivalen
- FFICM or equivalent
- On the specialist register for Intensive Care Medicine.
- scheduled to obtain this within 6 months of the date of interview but before starting in post.
Desirable criteria
- FRCA, FCEM, or MRCP
Training and experience
Essential criteria
- Broad experience in Intensive Care Medicine suitable for a DGH setting
- Demonstration of commitment to ICM such as relevant audits, publications, introduction of guidelines, relevant courses etc.
Desirable criteria
- Able to look after sick children while awaiting retrieval along with the anaesthetic and paediatric consultant.
- Interest in critical care ultrasound.
Administration
Essential criteria
- Experience of organisation and running of ICU in a busy DGH anaesthetic department
Desirable criteria
- Familiar with current structure of the National Health Service and conversant with recent initiatives and changes
Management
Essential criteria
- Ability to manage a large team from various disciplines and delegate appropriately.
- An in depth understanding of the NHS in general - its challenges and its relevance to the consultant role.
Desirable criteria
- Management course and/or qualification
Research and Publications
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate an interest in research.
- Able to appraise research and audit results and apply the information in daily practice.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of clinical research culminating in publication. Publication of review articles or case reports
- Research Methodology Course.
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 Georgia Monantera
- Job title
- Clinical Director for Anaesthetics and ICU
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01322 428648
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