Employer heading
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
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. The Kent & Medway Medical School has recently opened in Canterbury. This is a game-changing opportunity and one which the two universities and Kent and Medway trusts have been working towards for several years. Successful applicants with an interest in medical education will be supported in taking up an honorary senior lecturer post at the medical school – subject to agreement by KMMS. Both London and the Continent are on your doorstep, with easy access to the capital, and to the Channel Ports and Channel Tunnel.
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 (9beds), 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. Our Critical Care team boasts some exciting special interests across our three units. There’s a strong focus on critical care ultrasonography, with state-of-the-art equipment supporting focused echocardiography and bedside ultrasonography. Our consultants include accredited CUSIC and FICE mentors, plus two FICE supervisors. We have high spec ultrasound equipment available on all units, and have recently successfully procured a brand-new state of the art echo machine as well as a cutting-edge echo and ultrasound training mannequin with training modules for transthoracic and transoesophageal echo as well as lung and abdominal ultrasound (including a COVID lung ultrasound module).
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.
Please note that if you require a Certificate of Sponsorship to work in the UK you must declare this on your application form, even if you currently have a certificate of sponsorship or a work permit for another role and are already working in the country. Please note we are only able to sponsor candidates on a Skilled Worker Visa applying for roles Band 5 and above.
Through our Family First scheme we pledge to find roles for partners of consultants offered a substantive post - For more information please visit https://www.ekhuft.nhs.uk/careers/family-first-scheme/
We also offer removal expenses, up to 32 days’ annual leave and active support for study, quality improvement and patient safety work as part of our ‘We care’ improvement journey, and medical education and research.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please review the Supporting Documents section to access the full Job Description and Person Specification. If you have further queries please do not hesitate to contact the line manager using the contact details at the top the page.
Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.
Please note that the set Interview Date has been added as guidance and may be subject to change.
Person specification
Qualifications and training
1. Full GMC Registration
2. 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
3. Minimum of English Level 2 (GCSE grade C or equivalent), ILETS, or graduate of a UK Medical School
Desirable criteria
4. FFICM, EDIC, FCEM, MRCP, FRCA
5. Formal teaching or instructing qualification
6. Good clinical practice training
Clinical governance
7. Experience of morbidity and mortality review Evidence of audit of own practice
Desirable criteria
8. Structured judgement review training
Skills and experience
9. Wide experience caring for critical ill adults & children
10. Wide experience of one of: anaesthesia, emergency or acute medicine
11. Previous NHS experience Experience of teaching Audit participation
Desirable criteria
12. Critical care publications or presentations
Other requirements
13. Candidates must be able to demonstrate the ability to travel effectively between sites
14. Models the Trust values
Personal/professional attributes
15. Able to work effectively within a Multi Disciplinary Team
16. Vigilant about patient and staff safety and wellbeing Able to listen and communicate clearly
https://www.ekhuft.nhs.uk/patients-and-visitors/work-here/
Filmed in William Harvey and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother hospitals, the ‘We are the NHS’ campaign highlights the extraordinary work that staff across EKHUFT do every single day. As one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with five hospitals and community clinics serving a population of over one million people, EKHUFT was perfectly placed to demonstrate the care, cutting-edge treatments, research, innovations and life-saving operations that the campaign needed.
There are lots of great opportunities at East Kent Hospitals, where staff are caring and put patients first, innovation flourishes and you can develop your career. We’re on an exciting journey of transformation. With a new Medical School at the centre of our community, a focus on research, clinical leadership and making our trust a rewarding and friendly place to work, there’s never been a better time to join us. To find out more about east Kent visit our website at. The Trust fully supports the SAS Doctors Charter and is committed to their development through its CPD Framework.
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. If you have any difficulty with this please contact our Resourcing Team on 01227 866450 who are happy to help.
We have a relocation policy for eligible candidates, parking available at Trust sites but we encourage other options, like car sharing or public transport.
The Trust is committed to supporting flexible working to fulfil our pledge as part of The Trust’s People Strategy to help staff to achieve a healthy work/life balance. Please speak with your Recruiting Manager for further information on how this can be managed alongside department expectations and requirements.
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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.
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