Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine

The job is a full-time post comprising 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) including on-call, of which 1.5PA will be allocated to supporting professional activities (SPA).
We welcome applications from single-CCT and dual-CCT intensivists. The successful candidate must have a strong interest and suitable experience in intensive care medicine, but the role offers flexibility to include sessions in allied fields including anaesthesia, emergency medicine and medical specialities.
Candidates should be in position to take up the role by August 2025, The post has arisen due to an anticipated vacancy.
Job Planning:
The Job Plan will be a prospective agreement between the appointee and the Chief-of-Service, that sets out a 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 provides a clear schedule of commitments, both internal and external. In addition, it includes personal objectives, including details of links to wider service objectives, and details of support required by the consultant to fulfil the job plan and the objectives. Changes having budgetary or contractual implications would also need the agreement of the Chief Executive.
The job plan for the successful candidate will be finalised following appointment and prior to commencement in post, considering the subspecialty interests of the appointee and the needs of the department. Typically, a 10 PA job plan would involve 1.5 days of clinical work per week (4.5 PA), and 0.5 days of SPA activity (1.5 SPA). 2.5 PA are allocated for emergency out-of-hours work on a 1:10 non-resident on-call rota. The remaining 1.5 PA is accounted for by occasional 5-day weeks as the duty intensivist, which are rostered with an average frequency of 5.2 times per year. Dual CCT consultants who practice in two specialities are allocated 1.75 SPA.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Department of Theatres, Anaesthetics and Critical Care at Frimley Park Hospital:
The ACSA-accredited anaesthetic department has 56 Consultant Anaesthetists, providing anaesthetic duties in 18 theatres, in addition to several areas outside the theatre complex, including obstetrics, interventional radiology, endoscopy and cardiac catheterisation suites. They also work at Heatherwood Hospital, a newly built £100m state-of-the-art elective surgery hub, which opened in March 2022.
The department provides a cardio-pulmonary exercise testing service, an acute and chronic pain service, and a high-risk pre-operative clinic. It is an ESRA-approved training centre for regional anaesthesia. The department supports an obstetric service managing over 5500 deliveries per year.
Post Anaesthetic Care Unit:
There are 3 PACUs within Frimley Park Hospital, each located alongside a theatre suite. The main theatre PACU also functions as an overnight recovery unit for complex post-operative patients. There is capacity for up to four post-operative patients requiring level 2 care and these patients are managed jointly by the ICU and anaesthetic teams. The unit is also able to support the ICU and will manage Level 3 critical care patients when the critical care unit capacity is under pressure.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR - Epic - went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.