Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine with a Specialist Interest

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust for an enthusiastic, highly driven Consultant with a passion for intensive care and an allied specialty (anaesthetics, emergency medicine or acute medicine) to complement and develop existing services through the provision of specialist knowledge & expertise.

An ICM CCT is not essential and potential candidates are directed to page 19 of the FICM document “Critical Staffing #1 A best practice framework for safe and effective Critical Care staffing”. The post holder is therefore required to have full registration with the General Medical Council & a valid licence to practice and be on the specialist register for their allied specialty +/- Intensive Care Medicine or be within 6 months of CCT or equivalent at the time of interview.

Main duties of the job

Clinical:

• Provide high quality Critical Care and emergency and/or acute medicine services as part of the cross County team
• To develop enhanced clinical skills, especially in the assessment and management of acutely ill patients.
• To have excellent team-working skills with the abilities and professional attitude to work well in a multi-professional team.
• To deliver clinical and quality targets agreed both nationally and locally with clinical teams and commissioners.
• To follow patients throughout their clinical pathways

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

A formal job plan will be agreed between the successful candidate and their Clinical Director and consultant colleagues, on behalf of the Medical Director within 3 months of starting in post. A full-time job plan is based on a 10 PA working week.

The job plan will be reviewed annually and is a prospective agreement that sets out the consultant's duties, responsibilities, and objectives for the coming year. It covers all aspects of a consultant’s professional practice including clinical work, teaching, research, education and managerial responsibilities. It will provide a clear schedule of commitments, both internal and external and will include personal objectives, detailing links to wider service improvements and trust strategic priorities.

For a full-time contract, the job plan will be divided on average per week (pro-rata for a part time post) as: • 7.5 Programmed Activities (PAs) of Direct Clinical Care - includes clinical activity, clinically related activity and predictable and unpredictable emergency work. 1.0PA is currently allocated for night time Critical Care unpredictable on-call work (6pm-8am in the week of night cover) • Rota is 1 in 9 rolling pattern with 2 split day/night weekends to work in 9 weeks. Therefore, this attracts a 3% Category A on-call (return to work) payment. • 2.5 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs) - includes CPD, audit, teaching and research. It is expected that the applicant will fulfil a significant SPA role for Critical Care e.g., M&M Lead, CCOT Link Intensivist. The allocation of PAs is reviewed and may be subject to adjustment when a further diary exercise is undertaken or if the service demands a review of the team job plan.