Consultant in Intensive Care

Job overview

United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust have vacancies for a full time Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine.  This is reporting directly to the Clinical Lead for Intensive Care Medicine, you will be working as a Consultant within the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) which operates on a 24/7 basis (365 days per year) at either Lincoln County Hospital or Boston Pilgrim Hospital. Your preference of base site will be ascertained at interview.

The candidate could expect to practice up to 2 programmed activities (PA) of elective activity in another discipline subject to negotiation.

As the Consultant, you will mainly be responsible for providing specialist critical care intervention to the patients of Lincolnshire who need us most whilst ensuring the health, safety and welfare of everyone within the workplace through clinical supervision.

This role is open to consultant colleagues with dual accreditation.

Main duties of the job

• Adhere to government legislature, national guidance and Trust policies and procedures to ensure the correct governance of the ICU.
• Conduct ward rounds twice per day to ensure that all patients are receiving the care that they require safely and effectively.
• Prescribe medications to patients with requirement to administer them in emergency situations.
• Provide supervision of Doctors, Middle Grades and Advanced Critical Care Practitioners.
• Deliver training and provide coaching / mentoring to Medical Students.
• Collaborate with the co-ordinator on duty alongside the rest of the Nursing workforce to ensure safe and effective operation of the ICU.
• Respond to clinical support requests from other teams. For example: Emergency Department and Anaesthesia.
• Have difficult conversations with a patient’s relatives which may sometimes be of a sensitive nature.
• Engage in the research and innovation processes within the organisation.
• Actively engage with opportunities to continue in your professional development as a clinical member of the team, including completion of mandatory training.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The ICU operates on a 24/7 basis (365 days per year) and this will be inclusive of working over the bank holidays, Christmas and New Year period. Typically, you will be working during the day and at night where the hours tent to consist of the shift examples listed below.

• Lincoln Hospital, we have 2 Consultants on duty. One Consultant will be working 8:00-16:00 on site which the other one will be working an on call shift of 8:00-8:00 (24 hours). Non-resident hours must be completed at a distance no further than 30 minutes from your on call site.
• Pilgrim Hospital, there will be only one Consultant on duty over 24 hours (8:00-8:00) and again, non-resident hours must be completed at a distance no further than 30 minutes from your on call site.

The role of Consultant will be contracted to weekly job plan of 10 programmed activities (PA).

Within our roles, we consistently strive to support the community of Lincolnshire in providing specialist medical care to those who need it. As a team, we all have an active involvement in our improvement journey to making both the organisation and the ICU an even better place to work, ultimately aiming to achieve higher standards of care in the service that we provide to our adult Patients. The ICU itself consists of 11 level 3 beds or equivalent at Lincoln County Hospital and another 7 at Boston Pilgrim Hospital.

As a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine, you will be working within a busy clinical department as the ‘go to’ person for providing advanced critical care to the adult Patients that need us most. Alongside this, you will be supporting other teams and departments with your expertise whether that be verbally over the telephone or by responding to them in a different ward.