Job summary
Applications are invited for enthusiastic, motivated and committed individuals to join our friendly and dynamic team within the Critical Care department at Colchester Hospital, part of East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust.
This is a replacement post and the appointed post-holder will join the team to make 10 Consultant Intensivists with dedicated sessions on the Critical Care Unit. The post holder will participate in the 1:10 out of hour's on-call rota for critical care. Anaesthetic or allied specialty sessions will fall in the weeks outside of Critical Care commitments. Applicants without a CCT in anaesthesia are welcome and efforts will be made to design an appropriate complimentary job plan reflecting their areas of expertise. Flexible/part time applications will be considered.
Our Enhanced Welcome package includes an additional £20,000 Welcome Bonus and relocation costs to thank you for choosing to work at our Trust and your new journey with ESNEFT.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder's duties will be primarily at the Colchester General Hospital, but their presence may from time to time be required in other parts of the Trust.
The key duties and responsibilities of the post will be:
- Participate in the dedicated CCU on-call rota with other colleagues
- Provide day time cover for Critical Care and support the Outreach service
- Have a special interest in Critical Care Medicine
- Work flexibly to cover theatre sessions/allied specialties. Applicants without a CCT in Anaesthesia are welcomed and efforts will be made to design an appropriate complimentary job plan reflecting their area of expertise.
- Take an active part in the supervision and management of junior medical staff, including formal teaching programmes and clinical audits
- Participate in appraisal and assessment of junior medical staff and undergraduates, and performance of clinical audit as delegated by the Unit Training Director
- To teach and train staff in other medical disciplines, nursing and support staff as appropriate
- To participate fully in the clinical incident reporting system
About us
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provides hospital and community health care . We serve a wide geographical area with a population approaching 800,000 residents. We deliver care services from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals, high street clinics and in patients' own homes. We have nearly 10,000 staff, with an annual budget of over £650 million. We are the largest NHS organisation in the East Anglia.
We are building for better care with an exciting capital development programme across our sites - totalling £100million over the next five years.
We are building a new elective orthopaedic centre for ESNEFT at Colchester Hospital. It will be one of the biggest centres in the country and will ensure we can retain complex and low volume cases locally for the people we serve.
We are also now building a £7million specialist interventional radiology and cardiac angiography unit at Colchester.
At Ipswich we are investing £35million in a new Emergency Department and co-located Urgent Treatment Centre, with additional diagnostic imaging kit (MRI and CT). There's a £5.3million molecular diagnostic laboratory soon to open at Ipswich, and works begins soon for a new Breast Care Centre and a Children's Unit.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
The post-holder will:
- Work with colleagues to provide a Consultant-led service with the highest standard of care
- Work with the multi-professional team to develop care pathways and clinical guidelines
- Develop and maintain good working practices
- Collaborate and promote close working links with colleagues, other departments and primary care
- Offer educational, clinical support and leadership to junior medical colleagues, nursing colleagues and other members of the multi-disciplinary team
- Ensure appropriate information is made available to staff to measure clinical performance and enable meaningful benchmarks to be established and evaluated within their area of responsibility
- Ensure there is a robust process for reviewing the quality of services provided, explaining the causes of success and failure and ensure the highest standards are maintained
- Provide a role model of professional leadership, which underpins the corporate values and behaviour agreed by the organisation, ensuring these are understood and demonstrated by the medical workforce within their area and take remedial action where poor behaviours are demonstrated
- Ensure that junior doctors training conforms to College requirements
- Participate in the appraisal of medical staff within the department in line with the Trusts agreed policy
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post-holder will:
- Work with colleagues to provide a Consultant-led service with the highest standard of care
- Work with the multi-professional team to develop care pathways and clinical guidelines
- Develop and maintain good working practices
- Collaborate and promote close working links with colleagues, other departments and primary care
- Offer educational, clinical support and leadership to junior medical colleagues, nursing colleagues and other members of the multi-disciplinary team
- Ensure appropriate information is made available to staff to measure clinical performance and enable meaningful benchmarks to be established and evaluated within their area of responsibility
- Ensure there is a robust process for reviewing the quality of services provided, explaining the causes of success and failure and ensure the highest standards are maintained
- Provide a role model of professional leadership, which underpins the corporate values and behaviour agreed by the organisation, ensuring these are understood and demonstrated by the medical workforce within their area and take remedial action where poor behaviours are demonstrated
- Ensure that junior doctors training conforms to College requirements
- Participate in the appraisal of medical staff within the department in line with the Trusts agreed policy
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- CCT/CCST or entry onto the Specialist Register for ICM and Anaesthesia (or Emergency Medicine or Acute Medicine) or within 6 months of interview date.
- Advanced Training in Intensive Care Medicine as defined by FICM or equivalent.
- Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on a range of problems with both emergency and elective patients within the ICM specialty
- Confidence in the initial management and stabilisation of children requiring intensive care
- Ability to lead and work as part of multi-disciplinary team
- Ability to organise and prioritise work effectively and be involved in the organisation of the department
- Evidence of ability and commitment to teach undergraduates, postgraduates, nursing staff and other AHP.
- Understanding of NHS management structure To undertake the role of consultant and all its implied responsibility for clinical management tasks
- Ability and willingness to work hours of the job and provide out of hours cover on-call with any reasonable adjustment to take account of any local requirements.
Desirable
- Further qualification in ICM, eg EDIC
- A period of training in centre outside the regional training scheme either abroad or in the UK
- Evidence of work submitted for peer review
- Evidence of participation at "Training the Trainers Course"
- ALS/APLS or ATLS Instructor
- Evidence of presentation of personal work at national/international professional society meetings
- Higher degree (MD, PhD)
- Evidence of formal management training
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- CCT/CCST or entry onto the Specialist Register for ICM and Anaesthesia (or Emergency Medicine or Acute Medicine) or within 6 months of interview date.
- Advanced Training in Intensive Care Medicine as defined by FICM or equivalent.
- Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on a range of problems with both emergency and elective patients within the ICM specialty
- Confidence in the initial management and stabilisation of children requiring intensive care
- Ability to lead and work as part of multi-disciplinary team
- Ability to organise and prioritise work effectively and be involved in the organisation of the department
- Evidence of ability and commitment to teach undergraduates, postgraduates, nursing staff and other AHP.
- Understanding of NHS management structure To undertake the role of consultant and all its implied responsibility for clinical management tasks
- Ability and willingness to work hours of the job and provide out of hours cover on-call with any reasonable adjustment to take account of any local requirements.
Desirable
- Further qualification in ICM, eg EDIC
- A period of training in centre outside the regional training scheme either abroad or in the UK
- Evidence of work submitted for peer review
- Evidence of participation at "Training the Trainers Course"
- ALS/APLS or ATLS Instructor
- Evidence of presentation of personal work at national/international professional society meetings
- Higher degree (MD, PhD)
- Evidence of formal management training
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
