Consultants in Critical Care

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

The Critical Care Unit at QEHB is one of the largest single site critical care units in Europe. It is a mixed Level 2 and Level 3 facility, currently open to 67 ITU equivalent beds, and admitting over 4000 patients per year. There are 46 Consultant Intensivists, over 450 nursing staff and 15 Advanced Critical Care Practitioners, supported by allied health professionals and several tiers of medical staff in training from anaesthetics, intensive care medicine and other medical specialities.

The QEHB is the tertiary hub for the West Midlands, with a total catchment area of approximately 9 million people for all specialities. It has a world-renowned solid organ transplantation encompassing transplantations in liver, kidney and heart-lung recipients as well as one of the countrys largest bone-marrow and stem cell programs including CAR-T.

The QEHB site conducts complex oncological surgery for hepatobiliary, pancreatic, upper gastrointestinal and sarcoma surgery and is a regional centre for neurosciences, It is also a Major Trauma Centre, a regional Burns centre and hosts the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine. We deliver an elective cardiac surgery programme and a tertiary referral unit for emergency cardiac surgical patients, including those requiring cardiac mechanical device support.

Main duties of the job

Candidates will be expected to have higher specialist training in ICM and have passed the FICM (or equivalent) and be eligible for registration on the GMC specialist register. It is essential for applicants to have worked in a major tertiary ICU with experience of neurosciences and major trauma. Candidates should be able to demonstrate that they are highly motivated individuals capable of working in a broad multi-disciplinary team. Applications from candidates with experience in research, management and educational backgrounds are encouraged.

The core component of this post is to provide critical care cover at the QE Critical Care Unit. A standard full time job plan will contain 10 programmed activities. A programmed activity will normally have a timetable value of 4 hours and a full-time consultant. The ITU DCC component will be 5.3PAs with 2PAs be devoted to supporting professional activities. The remaining PAs will be made from a complementary speciality (e.g. Anaesthesia, Acute Medicine). For applicants who are single speciality ICM, a bespoke job plan will be created with 8PAs being direct clinical commitments. The critical care component will include sessions supporting Critical Care Outreach.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

Date posted

19 March 2025

Pay scheme

Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade

Consultant

Salary

£105,504 to £139,882 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

304-KA-1092618

Job locations

Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Mindelsohn Way

Birmingham

West Midlands

B15 2TH

Job description

Job responsibilities

SKILLS & ABILITY

* Effective communication skills

* Able to communicate in English at a professional/academic level

* Understanding of the NHS and NHS management

* Able to work as part of a multidisciplinary team

* Committed to economic use of resources

* A flexible approach to service delivery

* A commitment to and a clear understanding of Clinical Governance

* Evidence of completion of high impact audits/QIPS in critical care

* Evidence of understanding of research methodology, and an ability to critically appraise clinical research

* Information Technology Skills

* Enthusiasm and ability to work under pressure

* Caring attitude to patients

* Committed to high quality patient care

* Committed to personal development/CPD

* Committed to developing the service

Job description

Job responsibilities

SKILLS & ABILITY

* Effective communication skills

* Able to communicate in English at a professional/academic level

* Understanding of the NHS and NHS management

* Able to work as part of a multidisciplinary team

* Committed to economic use of resources

* A flexible approach to service delivery

* A commitment to and a clear understanding of Clinical Governance

* Evidence of completion of high impact audits/QIPS in critical care

* Evidence of understanding of research methodology, and an ability to critically appraise clinical research

* Information Technology Skills

* Enthusiasm and ability to work under pressure

* Caring attitude to patients

* Committed to high quality patient care

* Committed to personal development/CPD

* Committed to developing the service

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

* MBBS or recognised equivalent
* Higher specialist training in ICM or equivalent
* FICM examination or equivalent
* Eligibility for inclusion on the Specialist Register

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

* MBBS or recognised equivalent
* Higher specialist training in ICM or equivalent
* FICM examination or equivalent
* Eligibility for inclusion on the Specialist Register

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).