Job summary
- Main area
- Anaesthetics
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
- Job ref
- 151-WPHCON-17
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wexham
- Town
- Slough
- Closing
- 05/10/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant in ITU
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Job overview
We are looking for enthusiastic and committed Consultant Intensivists to join our team of Consultants in the Intensive Care Unit, which is part of the Directorate of Anaesthesia, Theatres and Critical Care. The unit has received the rating of Outstanding by the Care Quality Commission.
These posts have risen following retirement of consultant with responsibilities in Critical Care Medicine and Anaesthetics and service expansion. This is a substantive consultant post.
The successful candidate will join the team of intensive care consultants to cover the intensive Care Unit at Wexham Park Hospital. We offer full time ICM Consultant post or ICM job with additional sessions in Anaesthetics. We are also keen to support candidates with other areas of special interest (Acute Medicine, Emergency Medicine, and Respiratory Medicine) and encourage them to contact the department for further discussion.
We are keen to foster individual interests within Intensive Care Medicine, including research and quality improvement ambitions and will encourage continued development within a job planning review and appraisal.
Main duties of the job
The role of the Intensivists in Wexham Park Hospital is expanding. Intensive Care is working closely with other acute specialities and Intensivists are increasingly involved in the management of deteriorating ward patients in the form of outreach and medical emergency teams. We have a daily Consultant delivered Intensive Care Outreach service and an Intensive Care Follow-up clinic. There is a well functioning Medical Acute Dependency Unit. The hospital is currently in the process of setting up the Surgical Acute Dependency Unit.
The hospital, which serves people living in South Bucks and East Berkshire, was inspected in October 2015 by the Care Quality Commission and was judged on its safety, effectiveness, care, responsiveness to people’s needs and its leadership. The critical care and emergency services achieved the highest possible rating of ‘outstanding’ with the six other core services rated as “good”. The critical care team was praised for focusing on the individual needs of patients under exceptional circumstances. The latest CQC inspection in November 2018 rated Wexham Park Hospital again as good overall. Safe, effective, caring and responsive were rated as good, well led was rated as outstanding.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This is a full time substantive 10 PA consultant post which encompasses 8.25 DCC and 1.75 SPA but any candidate who wishes to work less than full time will be considered and supported, taking into account service needs. Additional sessions may be available on request. The post will be subject to the Terms and Conditions of the new Consultant Contract (2003).
In addition to appraisal, the job plans of all consultants will be reviewed at least annually in conjunction with the Chief of Service and the Associate Director.
The proposed Timetable and PA allocation is indicative of the work required but is not rigid and will be flexible depending on service needs and interests of the applicant. A formal job plan will be agreed between the appointee and the Deputy Chief of Service on behalf of the Chief of Service and Medical Director within three months of appointment.
The job plan will then be reviewed annually if necessary. It will 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 objectives and details of the support required by the consultant to fulfil the job plan and the objectives.
So far as is consistent with the proper discharge of the above duties, the post holder undertakes to deputise from time to time for absent colleagues, this includes short periods of annual leave, sick leave, study and professional leave on a quid pro quo basis. Paid backfill is provided in exceptional circumstances. On occasions consultants may be requested to perform additional duties in emergencies or unforeseen circumstances or convert SPA time to Direct Clinical Care. Leave should not be taken during the full week of ICU cover.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Full GMC registration
- Appropriate postgraduate qualifications (FRCA, DICM, EDICM, FFICM) or equivalent
- Entry on specialist register, CCT (or equivalent CESR) for ICM, Anaesthesia, Acute Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, complimentary speciality or within six months of anticipated CCT.
Desirable criteria
- Membership ESICM
- Membership ICS
- Formal teaching or instructing qualification.
- Joint accreditation in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia/or related speciality
Relevant Experience in Specialty
Essential criteria
- Current or previous experience of working in the NHS. Broad general experience in Intensive Care and related speciality
- Ability to take full independent responsibility for critically ill patients.
- Evidence of participation in training & supervision of trainees
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrable experience in ECHO
- Published research in peer review journals.
- Evidence of presentations at meetings of learned societies
Management & Admin Experience & Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Participation in Clinical Audit
- Proven demonstration of ability to communicate effectively and to work in a multidisciplinary team setting.
- Excellent written and spoken English.
- Ability to work in a flexible manner.
Desirable criteria
- Participation in departmental management in previous posts.
- Evidence of implementing change to improve patient care.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Dinesh Selvan
- Job title
- Deputy Chief of Service
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03006153195
- Additional information
Dr Peter Csabi – Lead Consultant for ITU WPH on [email protected] or call 0300 615 3202 to book an appointment.
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