Resident Doctor (Trust)

Job responsibilities

To provide critical care cover during daytime and overnight. With opportunity subject to service provision. To provide anaesthetic cover for elective Theatre lists.

PLEASE REFER TO ATTACHED JOB DESCRIPTION FOR FULL DUTIES OF THE ROLE.

Special Requirements

Essential

• Flexibility to respond to changing service needs.
• Ability to commence employment by 14 February 2026.

Personal Skills/Knowledge/Aptitude

Essential

• Demonstrates clarity in written and spoken communication, and capacity to adapt language to the situation, as appropriate.
• Able to build rapport, listen, persuade and negotiate.
• Capacity to use logical and lateral thinking to solve problems and make decisions, indicating an analytical and scientific approach.
• Capacity to take in others perspectives and treat others with understanding; sees patients as people.
• Demonstrates respect for all.
• Able to work in multi-professional teams and supervise junior medical staff or other staff members as part of the MDT.
• Ability to show leadership, make decisions, organise and motivate other team members for the benefit of patients through, for example, audit and quality improvement projects.
• Capacity to manage and prioritise time and information effectively.
• Capacity to prioritise own workload .
• Evidence of thoroughness (is well-prepared, shows self-discipline and commitment, is punctual and meets deadlines).
• Capacity to monitor developing situations and anticipate issues.
• Capacity to operate under pressure. Demonstrates initiative and resilience to cope with changing circumstances and uncertainty.
• Understands, respects and demonstrates the values of the NHS (such as everyone counts; improving lives; commitment to quality of care; respect and dignity; working together for patients; compassion).
• Demonstrates probity (as outlined by the GMC).
• Shows initiative and enthusiasm (shows curiosity, initiative).
• Demonstrable interest in, and understanding of, anaesthesia and intensive care medicine.
• Commitment to personal and professional development.
• Evidence of attendance at organised teaching and training programmes.
• Evidence of self-reflective practice.

Desirable

• Evidence of effective multi-disciplinary team working and leadership, supported by multi-source feedback or other workplace-based assessments.
• Evidence of effective leadership in and outside medicine.

Qualifications

Essential

• MBBS or equivalent medical qualification.
• Eligible for full registration with, and hold a current licence to practise from the GMC.
• Eligible to work in the UK.
• Significant demonstrable experience in intensive care medicine and anaesthesia within the NHS.
• Demonstrable skills in written and spoken English, adequate to enable effective communication about medical topics with patients and colleagues, as assessed by the General Medical Council.
• Applicants must meet professional health requirements (in-line with GMC standards/Good Medical Practice).

Desirable

• Primary FRCA or equivalent*.
• ALS, ATLS, APLS.
• Higher Degrees including MSc, PhD or MD.
• Post-graduate qualifications achieved in other specialties.
• Current employment in a UK Core Anaesthetics / ACCS Anaesthetics Training Programme and have completion of a stage 1 certificate (2021 curriculum) by the Post start date OR current employment in a UK Anaesthetic Higher Specialty training programme (2021 curriculum) at ST3, ST4 or ST5 level OR Completed Equivalence certificate for Stage 1 (2021 RCoA curriculum) OR successful completion of a UK ACCS or core anaesthetics training programme.

Non-Clinical Experience

Essential

• Is able to demonstrate an understanding of clinical governance and risk
• management.
• Demonstrates understanding of research, including awareness of ethical issues.
• Demonstrates understanding of the basic principles of audit, clinical risk management, evidence-based practice, patient safety, and clinical quality improvement initiatives.
• Understands the importance of audit and QIP (quality improvement projects) to the practice of intensive care medicine and anaesthesia.
• Demonstrates knowledge of evidence-informed practice.
• Evidence of teaching experience and/or training in teaching.

Desirable

• Evidence of involvement in management commensurate with experience.
• Demonstrates an understanding of NHS management and resources.
• Demonstrates information technology skills.
• Evidence of clinical governance activity such as presentation at a clinical governance meeting, involvement with incident reporting, dealing with complaints.
• Demonstrates an understanding of research methodology.
• Evidence of relevant academic and research achievements and involvement in a formal research project.
• Evidence of relevant academic publications.
• Evidence of a portfolio of audit projects including where the audit loop has been closed and there is evidence of learning of the principles of change management.

Other

Desirable

• Please provide a contact telephone number.

Experience

Essential

• Must be able to provide complete details of your employment history.
• Evidence that career progression is consistent with personal circumstances.
• Present level of achievement and performance is commensurate with the totality of your period of training.
• Sound clinical knowledge judgement with the ability to apply in the workplace.
• Experience managing patients with severe acute medical disease.
• Demonstrates awareness of the management of acute medical conditions, including emergencies such as GI bleeding, severe asthma, heart failure and so on.
• Documented competence through continuous work-based assessments and other portfolio evidence.
• Able to undertake the following with distant supervision (evidence may be requested): Central venous and arterial cannulation, induction of anaesthesia for the critically ill patient with cardiorespiratory instability or raised intracranial pressure, transfer of the ventilated patient.
• Ability to undertake indirectly supervised lists and emergency care of ASA 1 and 2 patients for minor and intermediate surgical procedures.

Desirable

• Experience in a complementary specialty.
• Additional clinical competence to that expected by the training programme.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).