Locum Consultant – Adult Critical Care Retrieval

Job summary

Locum Consultant - Adult Critical Care Retrieval

259-MED523SBH

ACCESS LONDON

We are currently looking to appoint NHS Consultants with experience in Critical Care Medicine or Anaesthesia with an interest in Critical Care or Resuscitative Care, to work in the Adult Critical Care Emergency Service (ACCESS), London's commissioned Adult Critical Care Transfer and Retrieval Service.

The role offers flexibility to apply for 1 - 4 PAs on a Fixed term contract basis for up to 3 years. Please ensure that when applying for this role you have the capacity to undertake these PAs within your existing job plan.

We are currently seeking highly skilled and motivated individuals to join our dynamic team at ACCESS. As a Duty Retrieval Consultant, you will have a pivotal role in the London healthcare system. A safe, compassionate, effective and efficient response is key to transitioning patients across facilities for specialist intervention, diagnostics or clinically urgent consults as well as repatriation to local unit post completion of care episodes.

This position entails working collaboratively with the Operational Leadership team and our diverse workforce to effectively mitigate service risk.

Our operations are carried out in collaboration with the London Ambulance Service NHS Trust (LAS), the London integrated commissioning boards and associated critical care networks to provide a transfer service for critically ill patients throughout London 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Main duties of the job

The ACCESS Duty Retrieval Consultant is responsible for co-ordination and clinical management of critically ill patients requiring retrieval and transport across London or repatriation outside London. The Duty Retrieval Consultant plays a pivotal role in the London healthcare system. A safe, compassionate, effective and efficient response is key to transitioning patients across facilities for specialist intervention, diagnostics or clinically urgent consults as well as repatriation to local unit post completion of care episodes. The Duty Consultant also manages the triage and tasking of capacity transfers across the capital and beyond when operational pressures impact equity of access to critical care. The Consultants coordinates and oversees taskings of several multidisciplinary teams of a Physician and Retrieval Practitioner as per defined service specifications and operational

guidelines from an ACCESS Operational Hub across the capital. The Consultant is further required to attend some critically ill patients in person to facilitate safe stabilisation, retrieval and transfer. The Consultant is required to maintain effective communication with both referring and receiving healthcare teams and adopt a broad lens operational viewpoint balancing clinical urgency, logistics, operational pressures, collaborative working and applying all necessary mitigations to preserve safety of the patient and operational team.

About us

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment where staff treat one another with dignity and respect. We aim to create an equitable working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential.

Employer details

Employer name

Barts Health NHS Trust

Address

St Bartholomew's Hospital

West Smithfield

London

EC1A 7BE

Employer's website

https://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Barts Health NHS Trust

Address

St Bartholomew's Hospital

West Smithfield

London

EC1A 7BE

Employer's website

https://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

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