Trust Doctor in Critical Care Medicine

We are seeking to recruit a Trust Doctor to our Critical Care team who will work as part of a team of eight Trust Doctors.

You will get to work in a modern purpose built facility with modern and spacious operating theatres housing state of the art anaesthetic delivery and monitoring equipment.

Main duties of the job

This is a full time post and is covered by the Medical and Dental Staff Terms and Conditions of Service. You will be assigned a named Educational Supervisor and study leave budget. All successful candidates are strongly encouraged to maintain Log book. CCC has links with the Academic Departments of Anaesthesia and participation in on-going research will be encouraged.

Some of the main duties are:

1. Review and offer clinical input to critically ill patients on Critical Care complex.
2. Participate in daily morning and evening ward rounds along with a consultant
3. Review and treat the new referrals to Critical Care from Emergency department and wards, attend cardiac arrest calls.
4. Maintain accurate patient documentation via electronic patient record system called Acubase.
5. Liaise with the on-call critical Care consultant whenever required and follow the clinical advice given within expertise, Junior Medical cover for Critical Care is provided by dedicated senior (Registrar) and junior (Senior House Officer) medical doctors working in 1:8 rota. There are 3 non-consultant level doctors in the CCC day and night. Registrars are expected to have proficiency in performing intubation and inserting invasive lines. There will be additional foundation year and internal medical trainee doctors on training in ICM.

The Critical Care Complex (CCC) is a purpose built modern General Intensive care unit with 20 beds. All beds in the Critical Care Complex are equipped with full monitoring facilities and central monitoring stations. Critical Care Complex admits around 1000 patients per year. Approximately 80-90% of these patients have underlying medical diagnoses and remaining are surgical patients. The case mix is excellent and is one of the best in London.

Multidisciplinary team lead by critical care consultants provides the care for the unit. Eight consultants share the ultimate responsibility of the patients and have admitting rights to the unit. There are 2 consultants during the day time) and a consultant during out of hours.

£57,764 to £88,517 a year pa inclusive (Pro-rata if LTFT)