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Job overview

Our Critical Care services are delivered across two unit, one on the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital site and one on the Cheltenham General site.
The two units admit approximately 1,500 patients a year. We support elective surgical services including Upper GI resection work, head and neck cancer services, three counties Gynae-Oncology services, a busy vascular unit. We have a busy medical admissions workload supporting all specialities including interventional cardiology, haematology, oncology, respiratory and renal medicine.
We have the greatest number of paediatric admissions outside of PICU in the South West with between 40 and 50 admissions per year.
We pride ourselves on our MDT approach to patient care and the flat hierarchy within our units. We have the support of an excellent outreach team across both our sites and we work closely together to ensure the best patient care.
Gloucestershire Critical Care department is a dynamic, hard working unit that delivers excellent outcomes for our patients and is a fantastic place to work, learn and contribute

Main duties of the job

This role will support the running of both Critical Care units in Gloucestershire Royal and Cheltenham General Hospitals. The post will also support the provision of on call services across both sites.
This role will complement our current junior and middle grade rotas to continue to provide the high level of care for which our units are proud to deliver.
Integral to the responsibilities of our posts are the following objectives:
To ensure the delivery of a high-quality patient-centred clinical service
To work in accordance with our trust’s procedures and operating policies
To work within the framework of team decisions
To show initiative, enthusiasm and flexibility

Working for our organisation

We are a large organisation providing acute services from Gloucestershire Royal Hospital in Gloucester and Cheltenham General Hospital to a population of 652,475* in Gloucestershire as well as caring for patients from surrounding counties and beyond.
Our workforce is almost 8,000 strong and our caring and dedicated staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred, high quality emergency, elective and specialist care across a range of clinical areas.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision of providing Best Care for Everyone and our success depends on the commitment and dedication of our staff, many of whom are world leaders in healthcare, teaching and research.  You could make a real difference to our patients’ lives by joining our team.

The Critical Care service comprises of 18 other Consultants, 24 resident doctors and ACCPs and over 160 nurses. In addition we work closely and collaboratively with our AHP' colleagues from dietetics, physio and pharmacy. We have a organised and efficient outreach service with whom we also work closely.