Critical Care Consultant

Job overview

The Department of Critical Care is seeking a Consultant Intensivist to join our accomplished and forward-thinking team. We are dedicated to delivering exceptional critical care placing our patients at the centre of everything we do. Our successful candidates will have the opportunity to maintain specialist skills whilst developing expertise in areas such as cardiothoracic critical care, VV and VA-ECMO, cardiogenic shock, perioperative critical care, haematology-oncology critical care, HDU, outreach services, optimisation of EPIC workflows, and research in critical care. We provide comprehensive care for patients with complex medical and surgical conditions, managing a wide spectrum of medical and surgical emergencies.

We provide tertiary critical care across the region and have established an international reputation for clinical excellence and pioneering research. The units are equipped with advanced monitoring, point-of-care testing, and the EPIC electronic health care system for efficient documentation and prescribing.

Our role extends from the emergency department through wards, theatres, and external referrals. We maintain a fully funded critical care follow-up clinic. We have an established 24/7 outreach service, ensuring emergency critical care is delivered wherever our patients need us in the Trust.

Main duties of the job

Provide High-Quality Care to Patients: Maintain professional registration and clinical competence while delivering timely, patient-centred care collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team.

Research, Teaching and Training: Support research governance, deliver high-quality multidisciplinary education, and undertake appropriate supervisory, appraisal and training responsibilities.

Performance Management: Work with clinical and managerial colleagues to improve clinical outcomes, patient flow, operational efficiency, data quality and financial performance.

Medical Staff Management: Ensure safe and contract-compliant resident doctor staffing through effective rota and leave management, supervision, recruitment, objective-setting and appraisal.

Governance: Monitor clinical outcomes, lead audit and incident learning, implement standards and guidance, promote infection prevention, and respond promptly to reports and complaints.

Strategy and Business Planning: Contribute to directorate and Trust planning and objectives, while representing the organisation at relevant external clinical networks and meetings.

Leadership and Team Working: Provide effective leadership, promote multidisciplinary and partnership working, chair specialty meetings, manage conflict constructively and comply with absence procedures.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Provide High Quality Care

• The post holder must be medically qualified and maintain GMC specialist registration and hold a licence to practice
• To develop and maintain the competencies required to carry out the duties required of the post.
• To ensure prompt attendance at agreed direct clinical care Programmed Activities.
• To ensure patients are involved in decisions about their care and to respond to their views.
• To work with the multidisciplinary team, valuing all team members and to provide care in an agreed team structure.

Research, Teaching and Training

• To collaborate with academic and clinical colleagues to enhance the Trust’s translational research portfolio, at all times meeting the full requirements of Research Governance.
• To provide high-quality teaching to medical undergraduates, postgraduates and members of other health care professions as required by the Clinical Director.
• To undertake appropriate training and act as an educational and clinical supervisor and appraiser as delegated by the Clinical Director to ensure external accreditation of the training post.

Performance Management

• To work with medical, nursing and managerial colleagues to ensure high performance in the following areas:
• Clinical efficiency e.g. LOS reductions, reducing cancelled operations and improved patient flow.
• Quality of outcomes e.g. infection control targets, reducing re-admission rates.
• Financial management e.g. identification, implementation and achievement of cost improvement programmes and participating in efforts to ensure services are provided cost effectively e.g. managing locum agency spend, monitoring and managing the drug budget to target, ensuring accuracy of clinical data for the team.
• Operational efficiency e.g. day-case rates, waiting list activity and demand management, enabled through appropriate data collection for the evaluation of the service.

Medical Staff Management

• To work with colleagues to ensure resident doctors’ hours are compliant in line with resident doctor contracts.
• To ensure compliance with systems and procedures that have been put in place to control and monitor leave for junior medical staff and to ensure that there is appropriate cover within the clinical areas, including on-call commitments
• To participate in educational supervision of resident doctors as required by the faculty tutors and clinical lead.
• To participate in the recruitment of junior medical staff as and when required.
• To participate in team objective setting as part of the annual job planning cycle.
• To participate in the annual appraisal of all doctors in training, Trust doctors, Clinical Fellows and non-consultant grades as delegated by the Clinical Director/General Manager.

Governance

• To review clinical outcomes in the designated area using external benchmarking data where appropriate, to identify and advise variances to the Clinical Director.
• Participate in clinical audit, incident reporting and analysis, and ensure that resulting actions are implemented.
• To work closely with the Directorate, Patient and Public Involvement panels in relation to clinical and service developments as delegated by the Clinical Director.
• Participate in ensuring NICE requirements are reviewed, implemented, and monitored in the speciality areas.
• To ensure clinical guidelines and protocols are adhered to by junior medical staff and updated on a regular basis.
• To keep fully informed about best practice in the speciality areas and ensure implications for practice changes are discussed with the Clinical Director.
• To role model good practice for infection control to all members of the multidisciplinary team.
• To respond in a timely manner to request for reports (eg Coronial reports) and responses to complaints

Strategy and Business Planning

• To participate in the business planning and objective-setting process for the directorate and Trust, where appropriate.
• To represent the Trust at appropriate clinical networks/other external clinical meetings, as delegated by the Clinical Director.

Leadership and Team Working

• To demonstrate excellent leadership skills with regard to individual performance, clinical teams, the Trust and when participating in national or local initiatives.
• To work collaboratively with all members of the multi-disciplinary team and Kings Health Partners as required.
• To chair regular meetings for the specialties.
• To resolve conflict and difficult situations through negotiation and discussion, involving appropriate parties.
• Adhere to Trust/departmental guidelines on leave including reporting absence.

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.