# Consultant in Intensive Care and Anaesthetics > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/consultant-in-intensive-care-and-anaesthetics/a57f46fa-20fd-4cc7-a146-1e4fc1bdff8c - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/consultant-in-intensive-care-and-anaesthetics/a57f46fa-20fd-4cc7-a146-1e4fc1bdff8c.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Royal Preston Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Medical doctor - **Speciality:** Anaesthesia and Intensive Care - **Grade:** Consultant - **Salary:** £113,565 - £150,569 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent: Full Time - **Employment type:** Full time - 10 sessions per week (Based on 10 PA's) - **Closing date:** 2026-09-09T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-18T16:31:05.179Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Lancashire/Preston/Lancashire_Teaching_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Intensive_Care_Ananesthetics/Intensive_Care_Ananesthetics-v8168052 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8168052?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.lancsteachinghospitals.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Applications are invited for a substantive post within Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Trust. Candidates must have full General Medical Council (GMC) registration and be on the Specialist Register of the GMC under Intensive Care Medicine. The Critical Care Unit (CrCU) has recently completed a multi-million-pound upgrade and expansion to 34 state-of-art beds on the Royal Preston Site. The unit is a tertiary centre for several specialties including neurosciences, major trauma, vascular, head and neck and renal. Anaesthetic Directorate is ACSA accredited by the Royal College of Anaesthesia and led by a team supporting the perioperative model recommended by the Royal College of Anaesthetists. This comprises a Clinical Director, and 3 Associate Clinical Directors for Workforce, Preoperative Care, Emergency and Elective Services. ### Main duties of the job The post holder will: - Specifically adopt, in conjunction with colleagues, an active role in the planning, development and delivery of the critical care services for the Department. - Participate in the critical care consultant on-call rota at the Royal Preston and Chorley and South Ribble Hospitals with additional cover during colleagues’ absence. - Assume a continuous commitment for the care of patients, even if employed less than full-time and ensure, in consultation with colleagues, that adequate arrangements are made for leave and off duty periods. - Promote high professional standards of clinical care for patients, both through direct patient care and by the maintenance of continuing professional development. - Exercise the freedom to develop specialist elements of the services to reflect perceived priorities within available resources - To provide an anaesthetic service as a member of the Department of Anaesthesia. This will be across both Preston and Chorley sites depending on Directorate service requirements. - To undertake pre-operative assessment of patients as appropriate, together with post-operative management and follow-up of patients in appropriate cases. - To undertake weekly theatre sessions as allocated of which a proportion will be delivered flexibly over each week, to maintain the high level of anaesthetic service delivery required by the Trust. These may include evening sessions, or, rarely, a weekend session (by mutual agreement). ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please refer to the attached Job description, Person specification and Specialty/ Trust Brochure for further details on: - What we can offer - Job Plan/On-call Requirements - The Team ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Health **Essential** - Meets professional health requirements in line with GMC Standards/ Good Medical Practice ### Personal **Essential** - Proven effective communication skills with examples. - Good organisation skills with examples. - Works well within a multidisciplinary environment. - Resident within 30 minutes travel time to Chorley/Preston. **Desirable** - Evidence of flexibility and adaptability - Evidence of cross functional working - Membership of relevant societies ### Management **Essential** - Evidence of Clinical Leadership - Evidence of commitment to audit and improving clinical practice/continuous improvement development in service **Desirable** - Demonstrate with examples clear leadership and successful quality improvement in Critical Care/Anaesthetics - Evidence of involvement or ideally leadership in QI work ### Qualifications **Essential** - MB ChB, MBBS or equivalent Primary Medical Qualification - Registration with the GMC, with a full licence to practise OR eligible for registration within six months of interview. - Eligible to be included on the GMC with a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) or equivalent Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration (CESR) in ICM & Anaesthetics **Desirable** - Higher qualifications; MA, MSc or MD/PhD - Hold the FFICM or EDIC - Extended complementary skills e.g. Echo, USS accreditation ### Experience and Skill **Essential** - Full training in Critical Care Medicine and Anaesthetics ### Teaching and Training **Essential** - Experience in teaching, training and supervising medical students, doctors and the wider MDT **Desirable** - Trained Clinical or Educational Supervisor - Formal teaching qualification or instructor status for a relevant course on acute care or the deteriorating patient eg. ALS/ATLS ### Research and Development **Essential** - Involvement in Audits - Broad research experience demonstrating leadership qualities and collaborative working **Desirable** - Established record of research funding. - Presentations & Peer reviewed publications ## Documents - [what we can offer you (pdf, 6.7mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2464) - [main recruitment pack 24 (pdf, 387.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2212) - [creating your best application (pdf, 6.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2433) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 872.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10549616) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.