Job summary
We are seeking an enthusiastic, innovative, and progressive individual.Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia to join our "Outstanding" CQC-rated Critical Care team. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a highly recognised and forward-thinking specialty within the Trust. This is a 6-month fixed term post. The appointee will primarily work at the new Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH) but may provide services at other sites as needed.Applicants must be on the GMC Specialist Register or be eligible within six months of the interview date, with extensive training and experience in both critical care and anaesthesia. We welcome candidates with additional clinical or diagnostic skills that will enhance our team, such as accreditation in ultrasound.The job plan will incorporate a 50:50 split of daytime clinical activity between critical care and anaesthesia. The successful applicant will contribute to a dedicated consultant roster that covers both day and night shifts, with an on-call rota aiming for 1 in 16 soon.This job is a 6-month fixed term position.
Closing date: 16th November 2025Interview date: 28th November 2025
Main duties of the job
The post supports the expansion of our critical care and anaesthetic services at the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), with potential cross-site responsibilities. We welcome applicants with additional clinical, educational, or leadership interests that will enrich our consultant team.Applicants must be on the GMC Specialist Register or eligible within six months of interview, with broad training and experience in both intensive care and anaesthesia. Our Critical Care service is rated "Outstanding" by the CQC, and our Anaesthesia Directorate is recognised for its strong training culture and multidisciplinary collaboration.The role is structured as a 50:50 split between intensive care and anaesthesia, with flexibility in job planning. The successful candidate will join the ICU on-call rota, aiming for a 1 in 16 frequency, and contribute to daytime cover across our 30-bed closed-unit ICU. Anaesthetic duties will include elective and emergency work across a broad range of specialities. You will also support the Enhanced Postoperative Care Unit adjacent to the ICU.
About us
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated careorganisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.
Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opened in October 2024 and provides care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises.The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.
We have three newly emerging strategic objectives:
- Our People - to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
- Our Patients - to be good or outstanding in everything we do
Our Population - to work seamlessly with our partners to improve liveses
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more information on the job role and responsibilities, please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification.
For an informal discussion, please contact:
Dr Krishnan KP, Clinical Director for Anaesthesia & ICM
Tel: 01215531831. Email: k.krishnan@nhs.net
Professor Jonathan Hulme: Consultant in Critical Care and Anaesthesia and joint Specialty Lead Critical Care Service: 0121 507 5458
jonathan.hulme@nhs.net
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more information on the job role and responsibilities, please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification.
For an informal discussion, please contact:
Dr Krishnan KP, Clinical Director for Anaesthesia & ICM
Tel: 01215531831. Email: k.krishnan@nhs.net
Professor Jonathan Hulme: Consultant in Critical Care and Anaesthesia and joint Specialty Lead Critical Care Service: 0121 507 5458
jonathan.hulme@nhs.net
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Full GMC registration & licence to practice.
- Eligible to work in the UK
- MRCP
- FFICM
Desirable
- Additional Post Graduate Qualifications
- Advanced Training in intensive care medicine
- Experience in critical care ultrasound
Teaching and Training experience:
Essential
- Ability to teach clinical skills to medical and nursing staff and other disciplines
- The ability to appraise junior doctors and other staff
Desirable
- Formal training in teaching
- Defined educational roles or qualifications including representation for doctors in training
- Higher qualification in medical education
- Instructor qualification in adult life support via Resuscitation Council UK, or equivalent
- Instructor qualification in paediatric life support via Resuscitation Council UK, or equivalent
- Experience in Simulation Training
- Qualification in how health, illness, and healthcare are shaped by cultural, social, and political factors
Clinical Experience:
Essential
- CCT in Intensive Care Medicine
- CCT in Anaesthesia
- Ability to take full and independent responsibility for the management of emergencies in Critical care and Anaesthesia.
- Ability to take full and independent responsibility for the care of patients
- Demonstrates a clear, logical approach to clinical problems and an appropriate level of clinical knowledge
- Able to prioritise clinical need
Desirable
- Other experience relevant to needs of the department e.g., complex airway managementd specialist training in neuroscience intensive care
- Special interests that complement the existing consultants
Professional and Multi-disciplinary team working and communication:
Essential
- Ability to work well with colleagues and within a team
- Good spoken and written English language skills
- Communicates effectively with patients, relatives, colleagues, nurses, and allied health professionals
- Information technology skills
Desirable
- Evidence of ability to work with multi-professional teams and to establish good professional relationships patient and colleague feedback
- oEvidence of patient and colleague feedback
- oExcellent presentation skills; engages audience
Management, Leadership and Administrative Experience:
Essential
- Ability to organise and prioritise workload effectively oAbility to plan strategically and to exercise sound
- Ability to motivate and develop the multi-disciplinary team, balancing departmental and personal objectives
Desirable
- Evidence of longstanding engagement with the community in which acute healthcare is delivered eg via representatives of community groups and local charities
- Evidence of longstanding public health engagement with communities represented in the patient groups treated at SWB
- Experience and delivery at regional or national level of medical leadership and representation
- Defined leadership or quality improvement qualifications
Clinical Effectiveness
Essential
- Demonstrates clear understanding of quality improvement and clinical governance within the NHS
- Experience of conducting clinical audit or QIPs
- Ability to use the evidence base and clinical audit to support decision-making.
- Enthusiasm to embrace developments in ICM and parent specialty
Desirable
- Evidence of innovative development and implementation of guidance
- Evidence of innovative development and implementation of guidance
- Experience in risk management
Research, Innovation and Service Improvement Experience:
Essential
- Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems
- An awareness of current specialty developments, initiatives, and issues
Desirable
- Knowledge and experience of the application of information technology to anaesthetics
- Publications in relevant peer-reviewed journals in the last five years.
- Evidence of having undertaken original research
- Higher Degree e.g., MSc/MD/PhD
- Current Certificate of Good Clinical Practice (GCP) in Research
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Energy and enthusiasm and the ability to work under pressure
- Caring attitude to patients
- Commitment to Continuing Medical Education and Professional Development
- Flexible and adaptive attitude
- Punctual and reliable
Desirable
- Demonstrates initiative in personal practice.
- Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at a local level.
Other Requirements:
Essential
- Appropriate Immigration Status (where appropriate)
- An understanding of the current NHS environment, particularly in relation to reforms, initiatives, and issues.
Personal Circumstances
Essential
- Residence within a reasonable distance of City & Sandwell Hospitals
- Ability to undertake clinical commitments at any of the Trust's sites.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Full GMC registration & licence to practice.
- Eligible to work in the UK
- MRCP
- FFICM
Desirable
- Additional Post Graduate Qualifications
- Advanced Training in intensive care medicine
- Experience in critical care ultrasound
Teaching and Training experience:
Essential
- Ability to teach clinical skills to medical and nursing staff and other disciplines
- The ability to appraise junior doctors and other staff
Desirable
- Formal training in teaching
- Defined educational roles or qualifications including representation for doctors in training
- Higher qualification in medical education
- Instructor qualification in adult life support via Resuscitation Council UK, or equivalent
- Instructor qualification in paediatric life support via Resuscitation Council UK, or equivalent
- Experience in Simulation Training
- Qualification in how health, illness, and healthcare are shaped by cultural, social, and political factors
Clinical Experience:
Essential
- CCT in Intensive Care Medicine
- CCT in Anaesthesia
- Ability to take full and independent responsibility for the management of emergencies in Critical care and Anaesthesia.
- Ability to take full and independent responsibility for the care of patients
- Demonstrates a clear, logical approach to clinical problems and an appropriate level of clinical knowledge
- Able to prioritise clinical need
Desirable
- Other experience relevant to needs of the department e.g., complex airway managementd specialist training in neuroscience intensive care
- Special interests that complement the existing consultants
Professional and Multi-disciplinary team working and communication:
Essential
- Ability to work well with colleagues and within a team
- Good spoken and written English language skills
- Communicates effectively with patients, relatives, colleagues, nurses, and allied health professionals
- Information technology skills
Desirable
- Evidence of ability to work with multi-professional teams and to establish good professional relationships patient and colleague feedback
- oEvidence of patient and colleague feedback
- oExcellent presentation skills; engages audience
Management, Leadership and Administrative Experience:
Essential
- Ability to organise and prioritise workload effectively oAbility to plan strategically and to exercise sound
- Ability to motivate and develop the multi-disciplinary team, balancing departmental and personal objectives
Desirable
- Evidence of longstanding engagement with the community in which acute healthcare is delivered eg via representatives of community groups and local charities
- Evidence of longstanding public health engagement with communities represented in the patient groups treated at SWB
- Experience and delivery at regional or national level of medical leadership and representation
- Defined leadership or quality improvement qualifications
Clinical Effectiveness
Essential
- Demonstrates clear understanding of quality improvement and clinical governance within the NHS
- Experience of conducting clinical audit or QIPs
- Ability to use the evidence base and clinical audit to support decision-making.
- Enthusiasm to embrace developments in ICM and parent specialty
Desirable
- Evidence of innovative development and implementation of guidance
- Evidence of innovative development and implementation of guidance
- Experience in risk management
Research, Innovation and Service Improvement Experience:
Essential
- Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems
- An awareness of current specialty developments, initiatives, and issues
Desirable
- Knowledge and experience of the application of information technology to anaesthetics
- Publications in relevant peer-reviewed journals in the last five years.
- Evidence of having undertaken original research
- Higher Degree e.g., MSc/MD/PhD
- Current Certificate of Good Clinical Practice (GCP) in Research
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Energy and enthusiasm and the ability to work under pressure
- Caring attitude to patients
- Commitment to Continuing Medical Education and Professional Development
- Flexible and adaptive attitude
- Punctual and reliable
Desirable
- Demonstrates initiative in personal practice.
- Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at a local level.
Other Requirements:
Essential
- Appropriate Immigration Status (where appropriate)
- An understanding of the current NHS environment, particularly in relation to reforms, initiatives, and issues.
Personal Circumstances
Essential
- Residence within a reasonable distance of City & Sandwell Hospitals
- Ability to undertake clinical commitments at any of the Trust's sites.
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.
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
