ACCOTS Duty Consultant

Job overview

The Adult Critical Care Co-ordination and Transfer service (ACCOTS) is the dedicated, commissioned Adult Critical Care Transfer service for the Midlands Region.  We are hosted by two acute Trusts (University Hospital of Leicester within the East Midlands and University Hospitals of Birmingham within the West Midlands).

ACCOTS provide consultant led triage, decision support and co-ordination of all referrals and patients who require or are likely to require specialist critical care escort, intensive monitoring, organ support and/or specialist treatment are within our scope.  We undertake transfers for escalation of care (including time critical and urgent), repatriation, continuation of care and capacity reasons.

Our Mission statement is "To deliver the highest standards of compassionate critical care to patients undergoing transfer within and from the Midlands Region".

We pride ourselves on being responsive and caring whilst delivering high standards as well as looking after our people.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our enthusiastic, high performing and friendly team within ACCOTS at our East Midlands Base situated in Castle Donington.   We are looking to build a substantive medical team of consultants with a minimum 2.0 PA contract (in extenuating circumstances, we may be able to consider less).  SPA will be paid pro-rata.

Main duties of the job

ACCOTS within the East Midlands is based at Trent Lane Industrial Estate in Castle Donington.  The successful applicant will work alongside the Lead Transfer Nurse and Transfer Practitioners to deliver high quality critical care transfers.  As a Duty Consultant you will be responsible for ensuring the following elements;-

• Triage, Co-ordination and decision support for all referrals to ACCOTS.
• Supervision and delivery of clinical care,
• Teaching, training and continued professional development,
• Governance and quality Improvement,
• Exemplary leadership behaviour that supports ACCOTS, values and Strategy.

This role will report into the Clinical Lead and Clinical Director primarily as well as the ACCOTS General Manager.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Main duties and responsibilities

• Triage, coordination, decision support
• Act professionally at all times when interacting with service users.
• Receive referrals, provide clinical and logistical advice where required, and allocate appropriate transfer resource or signpost alternatives when out of scope.
• Follow service Standard Operating Procedures around referral handling and deployment and specialist clinical pathways.
• Manage the tasking of clinical transfer teams.
• Maintain high quality clinical records.
• Undertake and engage with induction and maintenance training associated with referral handling, triage and decision support.
• Supervision and delivery of clinical care
• Provide clinical leadership and support to the multidisciplinary transfer team.
• Work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary transfer team and service users to develop and implement treatment plans for patients.
• Ensure service and regional Standard Operating Procedures pertaining to clinical pathways, conditions and service operations are followed.
• Ensure the safe, timely and efficient transfer of critically ill patients within the ACCTS operating region.
• Recognise that shifts are unpredictable and that referrals and transfers may extend beyond the duty period.
• Teaching, training and continued professional development
• Engage with day-to-day service education and training programme.
• Support the induction and ongoing development of multidisciplinary transfer team members.
• Contribute to service training days, as required.
• Maintain personal competency and currency in the delivery of adult critical care.
• Governance and quality improvement
• Maintain personal currency in the systems, processes, Standard Operating Procedures and policies of the ACCTS.
• Assist in the development and maintenance of Standard Operating Procedures.
• Attend and present cases at team Clinical Governance days.
• Contribute to service quality improvement, audit and research programmes.
• Leadership
• Be an ambassador for the ACCTS whilst handling referrals, interacting with service users and delivering clinical care.
• Demonstrate excellent non-technical skills, model the service values and behave in a professional manner at all times.