Consultant in Intensive Care
Job Description
Job summary
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 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. This will be agreed prior to appointment. The appointee will take part in a dedicated on call for general critical care.
As part of the Humber Health Partnership there may be the opportunity to undertake clinical sessions at North Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust. This can be negotiated during job planning discussions.
About us
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.
Job 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
- Evidence of having completed a formal training program in Intensive Care Medicine
- FFICM
- Valid Advanced Life Support (ALS) certification
Desirable
- FRCA, MRCP, FRCEM
- PGC(H)E, MA(Ed) or similar
- FICE/FUSIC accreditation
Professional Registration
Essential
- Full Registration with the GMC
- GMC Specialist Registration (or expected inclusion within 6 months)
Clinical Experience
Essential
- Clinical experience equivalent to completion of a formal training program in Intensive Care Medicine
Desirable
- 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
- Ability to lead on smooth and efficient running of the unit
- Ability to organise, prioritise and manage high intensity workload
Desirable
- Experience of leading improvement programmes, implementing change and monitoring compliance
Teaching, Audit and Research
Essential
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Ability to communicate effectively with external agencies and other disciplines
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Address
Hull Royal Infirmary
Anlaby Road
Hull
HU3 2JZ
