Site: Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital, Town: Margate
Salary: £105,504 - £139,882 Per annum (pro rata where applicable)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 09/03/2025 23:59
Job overview
We are delighted to welcome applications for a Consultant in Critical Care to join the expanding East Kent Critical Care team at the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital, East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust.
If you join our expanding department, you’ll discover a rewarding role with great scope for professional development, research and teaching, plus a fantastic lifestyle. Our Trust is investing heavily in our Critical Care Units over the next 12 months, and we would love you to be a part of this.
When you make the move to East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust, your only regret will be that you didn’t do it sooner. We are a community of great people providing great healthcare, improving health and lives. Here, you can be confident of making a difference to our patients, our incredible healthcare teams and our dedicated medical students and doctors in training.
Main duties of the job
As a GMC registered Consultant, you’ll play a vital role in a progressive and forward-thinking East Kent Critical Care team. East Kent Critical Care operates across three units: Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital, Margate (9 beds), and the Kent and Canterbury Hospital (8 beds) and the William Harvey Hospital (expanding to 24 beds from Spring 2022). This post, including on-call commitments, is based at the QEQM Hospital, although the successful candidate will be expected to work some sessions at the Kent and Canterbury Critical Care unit as required.
Working for our organisation
We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with five hospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 800,000 people. Our vision is 'great healthcare from great people'. Everything we do is guided by our values: 'People feel cared for, safe, respected and confident that we are making a difference’. We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called 'We care'. It's about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We're looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families and carers we care for every day.
Person specification
Qualifications and training
* Full GMC Registration
* CCT Specialist Registration (or will obtain within 6 months of interview date) in intensive care medicine and one of anaesthetics, emergency medicine or acute medicine or CESR equivalent
* Minimum of English Level 2 (GCSE grade C or equivalent), ILETS, or graduate of a UK Medical School
* FFICM, EDIC, FCEM, MRCP, FRCA
* Formal teaching or instructing qualification
* Good clinical practice training
Clinical governance
* Experience of morbidity and mortality review Evidence of audit of own practice
* Structured judgement review training
Skills and experience
* Wide experience caring for critically ill adults & children
* Wide experience of one of: anaesthesia, emergency or acute medicine
* Previous NHS experience Experience of teaching Audit participation
* Critical care publications or presentations
Other requirements
* Candidates must be able to demonstrate the ability to travel effectively between sites
* Models the Trust values
Personal/professional attributes
* Able to work effectively within a Multi Disciplinary Team
* Vigilant about patient and staff safety and wellbeing Able to listen and communicate clearly
We’ll close this job advert once we’ve received sufficient applications which may be before the closing date so please apply as soon as possible. We only accept online applications.
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