Locum Consultant Intensive Care Medicine & Anaesthetics CW

Job overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic and self-motivated consultant to join our department as a Locum Consultant in Intensive Care and Anaesthetics to support expansion of our ICU and anaesthetic workforce, starting February 2025.

Chelsea and Westminster Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the best performing Trusts in the country and, on the Chelsea site, has 20-bedded adult intensive care and a 2-bedded Burns Intensive Care facility. Some experience with critical care of severe burn-injured patients is desirable. Presently, 13 AICU beds are commissioned, and there are around 600 admissions per year to the ICU. The hospital performs a range of surgeries including colorectal, bariatrics and plastic surgical service. The hospital is a referral centre for high-risk obstetric patients. We have one of the largest HIV services in Europe and we are the only Burns centre in London.

Main duties of the job

In addition to the dedicated ICU consultant rota, there is a resident specialist trainee rota on ICU comprising a mix of anaesthesia, emergency medicine and medicine based doctors with trainees from anaesthesia at CT3+ level out of hours as well as resident FY2+ doctors on an SHO rota. We are supported by a 24-hour Critical Care Outreach Team and the hospital at night team, as well as the anaesthetic department as required.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The successful candidate would join the Intensive Care Unit on-call rota (1:8) and do anaesthetic sessions in non-ICU weeks per the timetable below. It is expected that the successful candidate will also join MDT meetings (to discuss long-term patients) on some Wednesday afternoons in their non-ICU cover weeks. A central expectation of the successful candidate would be to undertake a leading role in the development and support of services within the umbrella of Critical Care. This may include co-developing an in-house advanced critical care practitioner programme; working on Cerner (EPR); continuing to develop a Post-ICU rehabilitation service; supporting the Outreach Team.

There is a local mentorship programme for newly appointed locum consultants within the Department.

The successful appointee would be expected to actively support and join activities on the ICU including quarterly M&M, Board meetings, weekly Mortality reviews (concurrent with MDT), and twice yearly cross site clinical governance meeting when Audit and Quality Improvement Projects are presented.

There will be a level of expectation of cross site working at West Middlesex Hospital ICU in emergency situations or as part of a regular Job Plan.

Chelsea ICU participates in ICNARC, and works closely within the North-West London Critical Care Network.