# Consultant Intensivist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/consultant-intensivist/a08098a8-649d-4294-9e38-d2ddc860c157 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/consultant-intensivist/a08098a8-649d-4294-9e38-d2ddc860c157.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust - **Town:** Carshalton - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Medical doctor - **Speciality:** Anaesthesia and Intensive Care - **Grade:** Consultant - **Salary:** £113,565 - £150,569 10 PA - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Closing date:** 2026-08-03T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-10T12:52:16.024Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Surrey/Carshalton/Epsom_St_Helier_University_Hospitals_NHS_Trust/Intensive_Care/Intensive_Care-v8135792 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8135792?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.epsom-sthelier.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Substantive Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust AAC Interview Date: August/September TBC JOB OVERVIEW We are seeking motivated and enthusiastic people to join our dedicated team in Critical Care. Our team consists of 11 consultants, 24 junior doctors, and over 100 nurses and AHPs in our two Critical Care units. Why join us? - Career development: There is an opportunity to negotiate an additional 1 PA in a complementary specialty or subspecialise in an area of ICU. - Education: Accredited for FICM Stage 1, 2, and 3 training. We are developing CESR-training pathways in collaboration with St George’s Hospital. We aim to expand our echocardiogram and simulation training. The ICU team also provide education to other teams outside ICU and undergraduates from St George’s Hospital Medical School. - Innovative environment: We provide a 7-day, 24h critical care outreach service in St Helier Hospital and aim to expand this to Epsom by Summer 2026. Inclusion and Diversity: We are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workplace and welcome candidates from all backgrounds. Apply today! If you are passionate about delivering outstanding care and eager to contribute to our education and research programmes, we want to hear from you.  Apply now to join our dedicated team at Epsom and St Helier Hospital ### Main duties of the job About the units - St Helier ICU: 13 beds, providing full level 3 and 2 care. - Epsom HDU: 6-8 level 2 beds. - Annual admissions: 1400 patients, including 700 emergency medical patients, 350 emergency surgical patients, and 350 patients following complex elective surgery. Consultant Rota: The ICU consultants work 1 in 9-person rota on an annualised job plan. The 9-week rota typically includes: - 7 days as the consultant of the week in St Helier ICU (08:00-18:00h daily, with overnight on-calls at weekends), - 5 days in Epsom HDU (08:00-18:00h), - 5 second on-call shifts in St Helier ICU working alongside the Consultant of the week (08:00-21:00h on site, 21:00-08:00h on-call from home within 30 minutes travel distance). Specialties and Collaboration: We support all general specialties and admit patients from regional Renal, Haematology, and Oncology units. Our in-reach service helps our hospitals achieve the trust’s mission statement of ‘delivering outstanding care every day’. We are part of the South West London Adult Critical Care network (SWLACC) - Supportive team: We provide an in-reach service to the Medicine department, while also collaborating with Anaesthetics, Surgery, Emergency, and Renal departments, and other regional ICUs ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Responsibilities: - 10 PA contract: 8.3 DCCs (outlined above); 1.7 SPAs (including revalidation, educational supervision, and clinical governance). - Contribute to our weekly Morbidity and Mortality meetings, monthly ICU Consultant and Clinical Governance meetings, and divisional Quality and Audit meetings. - Assist with our teaching programmes, including bedside echocardiography and simulation training. Our Commitment: We are proud of our reputation for delivering safe and effective care and providing high quality education. We contribute to a number of national audits, including ICNARC, NELA, and PQIP. Our current SMR is 0.81. Since 2020, we have been short-listed twice for the national Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) award, we have had several peer-reviewed publications, and have presented at national and international conferences ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Ability to organise, prioritise, delegate, and manage - Ability to work productively in multidisciplinary teams - Ability to develop rapport with and discuss treatment options with patients in a way they can understand - High level of verbal and written communication skills - Awareness of own personal development needs - Demonstrable ability to cope under pressure - Teaching and presentation skills - IT skills **Desirable** - Development of clinical information systems ### Experience **Essential** - Ability to take full and independent responsibility for the clinical care of ICU patients - Ability to teach & train junior medical staff and undergraduate students - Experience of leading clinical audits, quality improvement programmes, implementing change and monitoring compliance **Desirable** - Educational training, and/or echocardiography and bedside ultrasound accreditation, and/or Simulation training, and/or Critical Care Transfers and training (eg Access). - Postgraduate research, publications in peer reviewed literature - Experience of the CESR/portfolio pathway ### Qualifications **Essential** - Specialist registration* in Intensive Care Medicine (either solely or in combination with another specialty) or within 6 months of achieving this. - EDIC and / or FFICM and / or equivalent - A license to practice with the General Medical Council** - Good Clinical Practice training (GCP) **Desirable** - MSc, MD(res), PhD or similar - Educational supervision training that fulfils the Trust’s minimum requirements*** ## Documents - [dbs policy (pdf, 101.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=677) - [we're here to care (doc, 39.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=678) - [jd cons intensivist (pdf, 776.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10433826) ## 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.