Job Description

This is a substantive Intensive Care Consultant post, the successful applicant will join the rota of 20 whole time equivalent intensive care consultants.



The Department of Intensive Care Medicine comprises the General Intensive Care Unit (Penrose Ward), Neuro Intensive Care Unit (Pencarrow Ward), and the Acute Care Team (Intensive Care Outreach, Hospital at Night and Vascular Access Services). The Department of Intensive Care has over 150 staff with an annual budget of over 10m.



The Intensive Care department has ambitious plans to open an additional 10 bedded Intensive Care Unit adjoining our existing facilities. The design work has been completed with building works scheduled to commence in 2024. This post will form part of an expanding team of intensivists required to cover the developing Intensive Care needs in a large busy tertiary and major trauma centre.



The Job Itself

TITLE :

Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine

RELATIONSHIPS:

The post holder will interact with members of the medical teams and nursing staff, and also with all other hospital staff associated with the care of patients. He / she will also be a member of the directorate interacting with colleagues and trainees.



The post holder will be managerially responsible to the Clinical Director, and professionally responsible to the Medical Director.



The employer is University Hospitals Plymouth. The job plan is based on a full-time appointment.



This post in Intensive Care Medicine is open to any suitably qualified applicant who holds a CCT or equivalent in Intensive Care Medicine or is within 6 months of completing training. We welcome applicants who have a single CCT in ICM or who hold joint or dual CCTs with anaesthesia, medicine or emergency medicine. Applicants who qualified before the existence of the ICM CCT should contact the Service Line Director to discuss their relevant equivalent experience.



We are a people business - where every member of staff matters and can make a difference. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Joining University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust means becoming part of a team of dedicated staff, who are committed to leading the way through innovation, clinical excellence and great customer care. The Trust has great opportunities for career development in a highly progressive working environment. We offer all of this in a vibrant, modern city with a historic reputation for adventure. PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL COMMUNICATION WILL BE ELECTRONIC, PLEASE CHECK YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT REGULARLY. If you have any issues with applying online and need additional support including reasonable adjustments with the application process please contact the recruitment team on 01752 432100. We recognise that work life balance is important for our colleagues and so we invite requests from applicants around less than full time/flexible working for our advertised roles. Please contact the recruiting manager to discuss this prior to your application submission. We commit to giving this full consideration in each case. We encourage people from diverse backgrounds to apply for our roles, as diversity strengthens our teams. It is sometimes necessary to close vacancies before the closing date. If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted.



Duties of the Post



Together with the other Intensive Care consultants, the post holder will be responsible for supervising patient management within the General and Neurosurgical Intensive Care Units and the delivery of high quality intensive care within the Trust. The post holder will also be expected to be actively involved in the governance, administrative, teaching, continuing medical education research, audit and quality improvement activities of the department. Involvement in research will be encouraged and the post holder will be able to contribute to undergraduate teaching for the Plymouth University Peninsula Medical School.



The current 18 week rolling job programme is shown for illustrative purposes (see below) and may be subject to modification, by negotiation with the post holder and Service Line Director. The new post holder will work alongside, and in a similar manner to, the existing consultant body. All intensive care sessions are undertaken in blocks whenever possible in order to improve continuity of care. Day-time sessions (Monday - Sunday) commence at 0800 and finish at 1800/1900. The on call consultant is present for an evening session between 1700 and 2100. After 2100 the consultant provides a non-resident on call service for intensive care. The overlap between the daytime and on call consultant ensures an adequate handover. All Intensive Care Consultants work an annualised job plan and provide flexible job planned sessions to ensure adequate consultant cover during periods of leave. Currently the on-call rota is on a 1:18 nights basis with weekend working 1:6 weekends (see example timetable).