Consultant in Critical Care Medicine

Job overview

The Trust wishes to appoint a locum Consultant in Critical Care Medicine (Single or dual speciality, full time 10PA).  The vacancy has arisen from creation of a new position to improve the resilience of the service.

Liverpool University Hospitals Foundation Trust is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in the country.  The combined Critical Care Departments comprise approximately 60 Critical Care beds.

Aintree University Hospital houses the supra-regional service for vascular surgery, maxillo-facial and ENT surgery, respiratory medicine and endocrinology as well as Acute Medicine and Emergency General surgery. Since 2012,  Aintree has been the regional Major Trauma Centre as a part of Mersey and Cheshire Trauma Centre collaborative. Aintree is also provides the region's hyper acute stroke services.

The person appointed will be based at the Aintree site and will be a member of the Critical Care department within the Division of Surgery.  Duties will be undertaken in conjunction with Consultant colleagues.

Main duties of the job

The Critical Care Department at University Hospital Aintree is a purpose built 31 bed combined Level 2 and 3 unit. The unit is currently funded for 14 beds at Level 3 and 12 at level 2. The actual daily composition of level 2 and 3 beds is fluid and depends on patient case-mix.

There are between 1200-1400 admissions per year of which 25% are elective surgical patients and approximately 500 level 3 patients are admitted annually. Approximately 100 patients per year require renal support.  A full range of organ support is provided including RRT and PiCCO. There is a Critical Care follow-up clinic and an outreach service.

The unit benefits from dedicated cover from Medical Microbiology, Pharmacy, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Psychology, Speech & Language Therapy and Dietetics. We have a close working relationship with our colleagues in the regional Respiratory Centre and long term weaning unit (VIC- based at Aintree).

The department provides 24/7 resident Consultant Intensivist cover and operates a truly 7 day service.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Critical care DCC

The appointee will participate in the provision of 24 hour dedicated clinical cover for the critical care unit. The appointee will participate in the Critical Care day time cover at 1 in 5 frequency, and on call rota at 1 in 16 basis including weekdays and weekends (category A – 3% supplement) on a resident on-call basis.  The on-call operates on the basis of providing prospective cover for absence.

SPA

Core SPA of 1.5 SPA per week is for the professional development (CPD), personal job planning, personal appraisal, mandatory training, attendance at regular team meetings which will have a clinical governance aspect and participation in audit, teaching and training.

Additional SPA 1-2 SPA/week for a specific role with responsibilities mutually agreed between the department and the successful applicant (eg Educational Supervision, Undergraduate Lead). This will be subject to regular performance review.

Second specialty DCC - 2PAs of direct clinical care PAs can be supported in a second complementary specialty alongside the Critical Care role. Example job plans for dual specialty roles are provided here but are not exhaustive.  For further details on these possibilities, potential applicants should contact Dr Tim Astles, Clinical Lead for Critical Care Medicine.

A detailed job description and person specification is attached to the advert.