Transfer Doctor – Retrieve Adult Critical Care Transfer Service
ST5 - Specialist Grade
Main area: Transfer Grade ST5 - Specialist Grade
Contract: Fixed term: 6 months (Permanent contracts available dependent on grade/experience)
Hours: Full time / Part time (40 hours per week, minimum of 24 hours)
Job ref: 387-TS-6709-ALF-E
Site: Bristol Royal Infirmary
Town: Bristol
Salary: £61,825 - £107,155 pa pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 23/02/2025 23:59
Interview date: 13/03/2025
As an organisation, we recognise the value of a healthy work-life balance. When applying, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate flexible working, so your work life fits around your home life.
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian, and minority ethnic candidates as they are under-represented within the Trust.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for ST5+, Specialty Doctors, and Specialist Doctors in Intensive Care Medicine and/or Anaesthesia to join Retrieve, the South West Adult Critical Care Transfer Team as Transfer Doctors. The service is hosted by University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust and has two operational bases within the region.
Retrieve provides a single point of contact for all adult critical care transfer referrals 24 hours a day. All calls are managed by a Duty Consultant who triages, coordinates, and can provide remote decision-support if required. Over the 24-hour period, Retrieve operates a dedicated transfer team from each of its operational bases – one in Launceston, Cornwall, covering the Peninsula sub-region (Devon/Cornwall) and one in Bristol covering the Severn sub-region (Gloucestershire to Somerset).
Main duties of the job
We are looking for dynamic and enthusiastic Specialty Doctors and Trainees to undertake adult critical care transfers working alongside Duty Consultants and Transfer Practitioners to deliver the day-to-day service. You will receive training and experience in transfer medicine with the aim of achieving autonomous practice status (with remote consultant supervision) during your time with the service. Following an orientation and induction programme in the first weeks of the role, Transfer Doctors will be initially directly supervised by Retrieve Duty Consultants. Transfer Doctors are expected to progress and undergo formal assessment following which, more distant supervision may be used, depending on the clinical case and Duty Consultant decision. The post is therefore suitable for a doctor with Intensive Care Medicine and/or Anaesthesia experience who has the appropriate skillset to assess, resuscitate, and stabilise critically unwell adult patients (including delivering advanced airway management) with remote supervision.
Working for our organisation
Retrieve is the South West’s dedicated Adult Critical Care Transfer Service. Commissioned by NHS England South West Specialised Commissioning, hosted by University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust, and supported by the South West Critical Care Network, it serves the Acute NHS Trusts within the region.
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England.
UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall, and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston, and beyond. As a forward-thinking multi-award-winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce, we aim to recruit and retain a workforce that represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description for a more detailed overview of the main responsibilities and person specification for this post.
Person specification
Knowledge and Experience
* Experience within intensive care medicine or anaesthesia of independently (to ST5+ level, or equivalent) assessing, resuscitating, and stabilising critically unwell patients
* Advanced airway skills (able to deliver unplanned emergency anaesthesia outside the operating theatre to a critically ill patient with remote supervision)
* Experience of critical care transfer
* Demonstrates good clinical judgement
* Completed transfer training course
* Understands and has taken part in audit and clinical governance processes
* Able to manage and care for complex cases with appropriate supervision
* Designed and completed audits and/or quality improvement projects
* Experience of critical care transfer and retrieval and/or pre-hospital emergency medicine in a dedicated service
Skills and Abilities
* Ability to organise and prioritise workload
* Honesty and reliability
* Able to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team
* Flexibility
* Inquiring and critical approach to work
* Demonstrates initiative
* Appropriately assertive
* Ability to gain confidence of staff and patients
* Ability to take on administrative roles within the organization
* Ability to lead the multidisciplinary team
* A willingness to undertake additional clinical duties when necessary, including cover for colleagues on leave
* Demonstrate the 4 Trust values of “We are supportive, respectful, innovative, and collaborative”
Qualifications and Training
* Full General Medical Council (UK) registration with Licence to Practice
* FFICM or FRCA or equivalent
* CCT in Intensive Care Medicine or Anaesthesia
* Other membership, fellowship, or diplomas
* Relevant specialist courses (e.g., difficult airways, ultrasound, etc.)
We hope that you will decide to join us and become part of this exciting journey, helping us to shape our future together.
IMPORTANT:
Please note that if you apply for a position with this Trust, you may be contacted via Trac or via email. This includes invites for job interviews. We therefore recommend that you regularly check your Trac account and email accounts. We may also contact you by texting the mobile number, if provided, on the application form.
Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore, please apply for this post as soon as you can if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification.
Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.
As a guide, interviews should usually take place within 3 weeks of the closing date.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Dr. Daniel Eden
Job title: Consultant Anaesthetist
Email address: danieleden@nhs.net
For jobs in the Peninsula region, contact Dr. Daniel Eden at danieleden@nhs.net
For jobs in the Severn region, contact Dr. Curtis Whittle at curtis.whittle@nbt.nhs.uk
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