Locum Consultant in Critical Care | East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Overview

Our complete commitment to developing careers means we’re looking for proactive, motivated, forward thinking, and dynamic individuals to join our clinical team. This post is an important part of our ongoing development of medical services at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, offering the successful applicant the opportunity to work closely with the existing ICU Consultants to provide a high standard of care across the Trust. We are seeking consultants with enthusiasm, commitment, and drive to work closely with colleagues throughout the organisation and within the community to help lead the organisation.You will have expertise in the resuscitation, stabilisation, and ongoing management of critically ill adults. The Critical Care Unit sees a wide range of medical and surgical emergencies, including regional specialties such as renal medicine, neurology, and tertiary cardiology. You would contribute to the teaching of junior medical staff and some nursing staff.The post is a split post with direct clinical care sessions in both General Critical Care medicine and Anaesthesia or other specialties. Applicants with single ICM CCT or other second specialty would be welcomed, and early informal contact is advised.The posts will include an average of 10 PA’s per week, undertaking a variety of work in critical care like ward rounds, providing outreach service and theatre work, both elective and emergency. The post holders will be expected to be flexible in their approach to working patterns, undertaking theatre work on any site when required.At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.We run the following hospitals:The Lister Hospital, StevenageNew Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden CityHertford County, HertfordMount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), NorthwoodWe have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.In the paragraphs above you have read an overview about the role we would like to offer and general information about main duties of the post holder. Please see attached – job description which describes in full details the duties, responsibilities and reporting relationships of the advertising role.This advert closes on Thursday 25 Sep ..... full job details .....