At a Glance
- Tasks: Manage ICU patients and collaborate with a supportive medical team.
- Company: Cromwell Hospital, a leading healthcare provider in London.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, part-time hours, and opportunities for professional development.
- Other info: Engage in teaching, quality improvement, and research initiatives.
- Why this job: Join a dynamic team and enhance your clinical skills in a collaborative environment.
- Qualifications: Experience as an RMO in ICU and relevant qualifications required.
The predicted salary is between 76000 - 76000 £ per year.
Cromwell Hospital is seeking an anaesthetic or Intensive Care Medicine (ICM) speciality doctor or trainee to join the team at The Cromwell Hospital ICU to actively develop their clinical skills and experience a wide range of clinical specialities. The department prides itself on fostering a supportive and collaborative environment for junior medical colleagues to develop.
Notwithstanding the clinical experience particularly around complex medical patients with critical illness, the successful candidate will work in a department that is particularly active in teaching and quality improvement schedules. You will join a team of 5 full-time residents (RMOs) and you will be expected to fulfil 120 hours per month (shifts either 24 hours or 12 hours).
Main Duties of the Job
- You will hold responsibility for the day-to-day management of all patients on the ICU in conjunction with the Intensive Care consultant.
- A full ward round with the MDT is held each morning and a secondary clinical round every evening, including holidays and weekends.
- Review and assessment of direct referrals to the ICU or via the Outreach service.
- You will participate in the development and updating of administrative and clinical protocols.
- You will actively participate in education programmes in the hospital and will show a willingness to undertake continuing professional development. You will attend the Journal Club.
- You will be expected to participate in the hospital's quality improvement action plan and adverse incident/sentinel event reporting program and will attend Morbidity and Mortality Meetings.
Person Specification
- Experience and Knowledge
- Good understanding of both spoken and written English.
- Broad training in all aspects of Intensive Care Medicine.
- Ability to manage the acutely unwell and deteriorating patient.
- Ability to recognise the dying patient and administer end of life care.
- Evidence of an interest in research.
- Skills and Abilities
- Analytical skills.
- Ability to work as part of a team.
- Ability to develop personal research projects and exercise initiative.
- Ability to present at conferences and seminars with authority and coherence.
- Attendance at internal seminars, clinical audit, mortality and morbidity meetings.
- Excellent written communication skills and the ability to write technical reports clearly and succinctly for publication.
- Ability to demonstrate innovative and original thinking.
- Ability to organise and prioritise work with minimal supervision.
- Ability to meet deadlines.
Qualifications
- Relevant RMO Qualification.
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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.
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