Job summary
- Main area
- Critical Care Medicine
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 196-CON1044
- Employer
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Brompton Hospital site
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 Additional 2 PAs + on call
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/06/2025 09:00
Employer heading

Consultant in Critical Care Medicine
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
Consultant in Critical Care Medicine
We are seeking to appoint a full-time Consultant in Critical Care Medicine based at the world-renowned Royal Brompton Hospital.
The successful applicant will work within Critical Care areas of the Royal Brompton Hospital, but there will be an opportunity for work across the Trust and the role will include outpatient clinics (e.g., ICU follow up)
The post holder will join the existing Critical Care Team and will report to the Heart Divisional Director through the Clinical Lead for Critical Care
In addition to holding full GMC registration and FRCA or equivalent, the successful candidate will be in possession of a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) or be within 6 months of possession at the time of interview. A minimum of two years of experience in cardiac/cardiothoracic critical care at Fellow and/or Consultant level is essential, as is experience and accreditation in adult critical care medicine.
Informal enquiries are encouraged and may be made to Dr Sarah Trenfield ([email protected]) Clinical Lead for EICU/Director in Anaesthesia and or Dr Brijesh Patel, ([email protected]) Clinical Lead for AICU.
Main duties of the job
Applicants will participate in and contribute to the delivery of excellent Critical Care Medicine in the Level 2/3 Critical Care facilities, with an important focus on Governance, Education, Research and multispecialty/disciplinary collaboration that underpins excellence in Adult Intensive Care Medicine at the Royal Brompton Hospital.
Applicants are expected to participate in the on-call rotas, including critical care, extracorporeal support (e.g. ECMO) and patient retrieval (training opportunities), to ensure the highest standards of service provision. As a national Severe Acute Respiratory Failure centre, providing VV ECMO, and a tertiary centre for complex cardiac conditions, developmental opportunities exist.
Working for our organisation
Our mission is to be the UK’s leading specialist centre for heart and lung disease. We will achieve this mission through a strategy of focused growth in aspects of heart and lung treatment, such as congenital heart disease, arrhythmia, heart failure and advanced lung diseases. Our approach is based on:
- The continual development of leading-edge services through clinical refinement and research
- The effective and efficient delivery of core specialist treatment
- The transition of appropriate routine services to other centres to release capacity for new interventions
Remaining an autonomous specialist organisation is central to preserving and building our strong clinical and organisational record. However, we are equally convinced of the importance of effective partnerships particularly with major academic bodies to ensure a continuing pipeline of innovations to develop future treatments.
We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Work with the current team of Critical Care Consultants to deliver a high-quality critical care service at whatever location this is required
- Work closely with colleagues to continue to maintain excellence within and assist in the ongoing development of a severe acute cardio-respiratory failure service including ECMO
- Collaborate with the research program and lead research projects as appropriate
- Collaborate with clinical and research data collection, and presentation
- Participate fully in clinical audit and clinical governance for the Critical Care and ECMO services including attendance at relevant meetings
- Undertake teaching and training locally and nationally
- Contribute to local, national and international development of the Critical Care service as described above
Person specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- On the Specialist Register of the GMC or within 6 months of eligibility at the time of interview
- MRCP or FRCA or equivalent
- CCT/CCST in ICM or equivalent (CESR) with advanced training in ICM (or equivalent)
- MB BS or equivalent
- FFICM/EDIC or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Higher degree (MSc, MD, MPhil, PhD or equivalent)
- Membership of FICM
- MRCP or FRCA or equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
- Adult Critical Care Medicine
- Advanced adult Cardiac/cardiothoracic Critical Care experience
- Transport of critically ill patients with severe cardio-respiratory failure with and without extracorporeal support
- Advanced care of patients receiving respiratory and cardiac extracorporeal support
Skills, Knowledge and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Technical and clinical skills required for Adult Critical Care Medicine
- Wide knowledge of cardiac and thoracic physiology
- Teaching skills
- Ability to initiate & supervise quality improvement projects and research
Desirable criteria
- Basic training in Echocardiography (transthoracic/transoesophageal)
Other
Essential criteria
- Commitment to continuing medical education
Applicant requirements
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 Brijesh Patel
- Job title
- Critical Care Lead- AICU
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0207 3528121
- Additional information
Dr Sarah Trenfield, Critical Care Lead- EICU [email protected]
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