Senior Locally Employed Doctor in Intensive Care

Job summary

The appointee will work across the Intensive Care Unit, gaining clinical experience reflecting their training ambitions and needs. The role will combine working alongside and supporting consultant and trainee colleagues in Critical Care while providing out of hours resident cover on a full shift basis on a European Working Time Directive (EWTD) compliant rota. This post is suitable for individuals seeking a period of higher experience in Intensive Care Medicine to develop their skills.

All trainees have weekly bleep-free educational time. The programme is multi-faceted and incorporates face-to-face consultant-led teaching on topics relevant to critical care, simulation scenarios and critical appraisal of key papers. Electronic learning resources are also available. Opportunities exist to participate in the department's active audit, teaching and research programmes subject to the interests of the applicant. This post is suitable for either UK medical graduates, those from the European Economic Area or international candidates (international candidates see section 2 below).

Main duties of the job

Successful doctors will be appointed to the EWTD compliant full shift rota. This shift pattern will be constructed over an average 7 week cycle in accordance with the rota template.

Example templates can be made available to interested candidates.

Our Critical Care service is one of the longest established units in the country. Initially this was only as an Intensive Care Unit. As years progressed, a separate High Dependency Unit was built and opened at the tail end of the 1990s. Recent building work has created a combined Critical Care service operating from the Critical Care Ward. The combined number of admissions for level 2 and level 3 care in the past 12 months was 359 patients

Critical Care unit has 12 critical care beds which are split as 6 intensive care beds and 6 high dependency beds. There is some flexibility that can allow this to be adapted according to clinical need, increasing the number of level 3 patients.

Training in Ultrasound is available with mentors in both FICE and Thoracic Ultrasound. There is an active educational programme for trainees from a variety of different training programmes and the service Intensive Care Medicine (ICM) doctors, with ICM tutorials once a week, daily teaching wards rounds, and a weekly ICM Grand Round and Journal Club

About us

MFT is England's largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we've launched in September 2022.

We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing, and shaping the future of our organisation together.