Job Description
Division: Planned Care
We are seeking an enthusiastic Consultant in Critical Care to join our friendly, expert and energetic team and to actively contribute to the development of our services.
We are a CQC “outstanding” rated critical care department looking to expand our consultant numbers to a total of 16 critical care consultants, providing leadership to our critical care team.
Applicants should possess a Certification of Completion of Training in critical care with a base speciality of anaesthesia, acute medicine or emergency medicine. We would welcome interest from applicants with a single CCT in critical care and we can design a bespoke job plan dependent on individuals’ clinical interests/ circumstances.We would also consider applicants without a CCT in critical care provided they have suitable experience in critical care and wish to undertake regular sessions in critical care as consultants.
Our critical care department is one of the busiest in the South East of England with approximately 2000 admissions per year, and comprises a 14-bedded level 3 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and a 10-bedded level 2 High Dependency Unit (HDU).
Our values areBold,Every Person Counts,Sharing and Open andTogether. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement which will not mean sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.
All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.
We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under – represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.
All staff at Medway comply the Trust’s and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board’s policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.
- Holistic consultant critical care services to our local population with the opportunity to help develop our CQC rated “outstanding” service, including critical care rehabilitation, research, education, and point of care ultrasonography
- To participate in the critical care consultant on-call rota (currently a single 1:12 rota but will move to a dual 1:8 rota following expansion of the consultant workforce)
- To provide additional consultant clinical services dependent on the dual specialty (anaesthesia, ED and Acute Medicine) and work to develop these specialties
- To undertake Quality improvement activity/ clinical audit to continually deliver high class clinical care and to participate in the Trust’s governance processes.
- Supervision and teaching of medical students, nursing and trainee medical staff
We have an integrated multi-disciplinary consultant-led post-critical care rehabilitation service comprising a critical care counsellor, physiotherapists, rehabilitation nurse, and occupational therapists. We have an active critical care research unit with an extensive portfolio of national and international trials and are a FICM-recognised unit for ICM trainees and have 4 trained Advanced Critical Care Practitioners supporting our trainee rotas. We are currently training a further 4 ACCPs. We invested in an electronic patient records system in 2013 which we use to facilitate quality improvement and high quality audit.
The ICU and HDU are currently led by 10 consultant anaesthetists with an interest in critical care and two dual-certified medical consultants.
Our ED was rated “good” by the CQC in June 2022 and has benefitted from a £20 million refurbishment completed in July 2021. The department sees 140,000 patients per year and has an enthusiastic team comprising 11 full time Consultants (increasing to 16), two part-time Consultants, 3 ST4-ST6 trainees in Emergency Medicine, 15 Specialty Doctors, 8 Specialty Doctors for Children’s ED, 4 ACCS ST1-3 trainees, 4 ST1-2 trainees in General Practice, 7 FY2 trainees, 2 FY1 trainees, Clinical Trust Fellows (part-time Sim/ Medical Education), Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACP), Physician Associates (PA), Matron and Team of Nurse Lead Managers, Consultant Nurse, and 190 nursing workforce.