Locum Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine

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This post is for a locum consultant in Intensive Care. This is a whole-time 12 month FTC post offering an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated doctor to join a dynamic, rapidly expanding team delivering multidisciplinary critical care medicine in a multi award winning Critical Care Unit. Southport Hospital is part of the Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals. Applicants are required to be fully registered with the General Medical Council, and to be on the Specialist Register. Due to current service demands, we are only able to consider applicants who have relevant UK experience. Candidates must also be available to commence employment immediately or within a very short timeframe. We regret that we cannot progress applications that do not meet these essential requirements.

Main duties of the job

• The appointee is expected to be involved in the department’s undergraduate, postgraduate and Nurse Specialist teaching and other appropriate educational activities.
• The appointee will be actively involved as a Clinical Supervisor but will not be directly responsible for educational supervision at least initially (this is to be reviewed at job planning).
• The appointee will have a responsibility for the running of their clinical service, integrating this with the department as a whole and ensuring appropriate communication with general practitioners, managers, and hospital committees.
• The appointee will be responsible for contributing to the achievement of relevant aspects of the Trust’s contractual obligations and business plans.

Working for our organisation

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

Our services:

• Acute Care: Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
• Primary Care: Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
• Community Services: Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire.
• Specialist Regional Services: We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

Achievements:

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Full GMC registration at the time of application
• MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
• MRCP or equivalent medical qualification
• FFICM or equivalent
• MD/MSc or equivalent medical qualification

Knowledge

• Minimum of 6 months recent experience of working in intensive care Medicine within the NHS
• Ability to stabilise and provide initial management of the critically ill patient at a senior level.
• Demonstrable competence in Critical Care procedures.
• Current ALS Provider
• Ultrasound accreditation relevant to Critical Care
• Bed side ECHO accreditation

Skills/Management/Audit/Leadership

• Understanding of the management and leadership responsibilities of a consultant within the NHS
• Evidence of active and consistent engagement with clinical audit and/or QIP(s)
• Recognition by the GMC as a Clinical Supervisor
• Evidence of delivering teaching to undergraduate students, postgraduate doctors and/or allied healthcare professionals
• Good IT and computing skills.
• Successful completion of appropriate management/leadership course(s)
• Previous participation in a management/leadership role
• Simulation experience
• Recognition by the GMC as an Educational Supervisor
• Formal training/qualification in Teaching and/or Learning
• Life support course instructor
• Evidence of recent and current research, with relevant publications.
• Formal training in Research Methodology

Other

• Excellent verbal and written English skills
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills, approachability and ability to motivate and develop others
• Ability to lead change and the development of services and promote excellence and best practice
• Upholds the Trust’s Objectives
• Caring and responsible attitude to colleagues
• Membership of appropriate professional society(ies).
• Knowledge of the up-to-date literature.

Thank you for considering an application to work for Mersey West Lancashire NHS Trust. MWL is an exciting and forward-thinking NHS Trust who are one of the best places to work for in England.

The Trust may contact you during the recruitment process for your feedback on your experience. We always aim for continuous improvement in our practice.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

We actively cultivate a professional environment of fairness, equality, dignity, and respect for all individuals. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds and value the unique skills, perspective and experience you bring.

As a Disability Confident Leader, we commit to offering an interview to all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job (the essential criteria) listed in the personal specification.

If you wish to apply under this Guaranteed Interview Scheme, please indicate this on the online application form.

If you are having difficulty completing an online application, or require any disability reasonable adjustments, to the application process, please contact Recruitment@merseywestlancs.nhs.uk

We also commit to offering an interview to all armed forces veterans who meet the minimum criteria for the job (the essential criteria) listed in the personal specification.

The Trust operates anonymous shortlisting where no personal information about you, including your name or personal details are shared with the recruiting manager.

Flexible Working

We actively support flexible working patterns throughout MWL. Changes made to the NHS Terms and Conditions of Service Handbook mean that:

• All employees have the right to request flexible working from day one of employment.
• There is no limit on the number of requests they can make.
• Employees have the right to make requests, have them considered, regardless of the reason.

At Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, we will consider requests for flexible working. We would also encourage you to also discuss flexible working options at interview stage.

Working for Team MWL

Staff recognition is especially important to us; as well as performance reviews and appraisals, we recognise staff through Employee of the month. Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts.

Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services. The Trust is a non-smoking across all our sites. Failure to follow this rule could lead to disciplinary action.

You will be expected to undertake the Trusts' commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.

You must ensure that your application, including personal statements and behaviour examples, are truthful and factually accurate. Please note plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own. The Trust will not accept applications which are found to be AI generated and will check all applications against AI detection software.

Additional Information

Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trusts Values and Behaviours which are We are KIND, We are OPEN, We are INCLUSIVE.

An applicant guide to help and support you with your application and what to expect during your recruitment journey can be accessed in the supporting documents.

Good luck with your application. We hope to welcome you to Team MWL very soon.