ICU Consultant

Job overview

We are looking for enthusiastic colleagues to join the critical care team at Imperial College Healthcare.

You will be working as part of the wider critical care directorate at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, which provides 94 Adult ICU beds across three hospitals. All units were rated “Good” by the CQC in 2019, and achieved very positive feedback in peer reviews in 2023.

Each unit admits both elective and emergency Level 2 and 3 patients, but has a distinct character. St Mary’s is a quaternary vascular centre and Major Trauma Centre, Charing Cross is a regional stroke and neurosurgical centre, and Hammersmith is a regional centre for cardiac, renal and haematology. As a result, we care for a hugely varied clinical case mix and are pioneers in multi-disciplinary and collaborative care.

As one of the largest acute teaching Trusts in the UK, we offer a wide range of opportunities to help you achieve the career you aspire to. Academic clinicians are welcome and will be encouraged to become local principal investigators for multicentre studies in collaboration with our internationally acclaimed academic department led by Prof A Gordon.

This will be a split-site post, working across St Mary's and Charing Cross Hospitals.

Main duties of the job

The posts will attract 10PAs including a minimum of 2SPAs, but we also welcome applications from individuals who wish to work less than full time. Our philosophy is to formulate an individualised job plan with successful candidates, with an emphasis on enabling professional development and pursuit of specific interests. We strongly believe that the job plan needs to be sustainable and should enable the successful candidate to maintain a good work-life balance.

Main duties contained within the job plan are assessing and managing critically unwell patients as part of the ICU MDT team. This will involve twice daily ward rounds as a minimum with targeted assessment and interventions as required. Outreach duties are also contained within the job plans and there are outreach clinics which can be job planned for interested candidates. SPA duties will vary but all consultants are expected to support and supervise trainees.

All appointments are to the Trust, but this post will be based across our St Mary's and Charing Cross sites. There may also be opportunities for consultants to move sites during their career if they wish to, in order to gain new clinical or leadership experience.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Main Responsibilities

Provide High Quality Care to Patients presenting as an Emergency or who require Critical Care

Research, Teaching & Training

• Collaborate with academic and clinical colleagues to enhance the translational research portfolio, whilst meeting the full requirements of Research Governance
• Provide high quality teaching to medical undergraduates, foundation doctors, specialty trainees and members of other health care professions as required

Performance Management

• Work with medical, nursing and managerial colleagues to ensure high performance in clinical efficiency, patient safety, quality of outcomes and financial management

Medical Staff Management

• Participate in team objective setting as part of the annual job planning cycle
• Be responsible for the annual appraisal of doctors in training, Trust doctors and non-consultant grades as delegated

Governance

• Participate in clinical audit, incident reporting and ensure resulting actions are implemented
• Keep fully informed about best practice in the speciality areas and ensure implications for practice changes are discussed with Specialty Leads
• Role model good practice for infection control to all members of the multidisciplinary team

Leadership and Team Working

• Demonstrate excellent leadership skills with regard to individual performance, clinical teams, the Trust

and when participating in national initiatives

• Work collaboratively with all members of the multi-disciplinary team and Imperial College as required

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.