Specialist in Critical Care

Join to apply for the Specialist in Critical Care role at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. You will join a supportive and friendly multi-disciplinary team, including doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, cleaning/domestic staff, dieticians, microbiology/infection control, pharmacists and admin staff, that values good team-working and safe, efficient and compassionate patient care.

Our therapies team has expanded with the addition of colleagues in speech and language therapy, occupational therapy and psychology, all with dedicated Critical Care time. The Critical Care team is led by nine Critical Care Consultants plus one Specialist in Critical Care. As part of the Department of Anaesthetics, with a total establishment of thirty one Consultants. The trainee establishment consists of ten Stage 1 and seven Stage 2/3 trainees rotating from the East Midlands School of Anaesthesia (EMSA). We also host ICM speciality trainees in Stages 1 and 2, and have recently commenced Stage 3 / advanced ICM placements.

The post holder will participate in the Critical Care Consultant on call rota for out of hours activity. ‘On-call’ will be on a 1 in 8 rota, including weekends with prospective cover. Consultants will be expected to cross cover colleagues’ leave in order to cover the Critical Care Medicine service.

The successful candidate will be contracted to Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and based at King’s Mill Hospital. We would like you to commit to providing safe and effective care, as part of a supportive, cohesive team with a strong ethos of quality assurance and improvement. We would expect you to play a full and active part in the delivery and development of our Critical Care service and relationships with our partner specialties and teams.

As a Specialist, whether newly appointed or moving from another hospital, you will also engage fully with developing yourselves in medical leadership. We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust providing acute and community healthcare services for 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark, Sherwood and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire. We are working closely with partners in health and social care through the Mid Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Partnership to take collective responsibility for managing resources, delivering NHS standards, and improving the health of the population we serve.

We put the patient at the centre of everything that we do, and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically led organisation. In the past four years our staff engagement scores have been the best for Acute Trusts in the Midlands.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Mr Kelvin Wright Job title: Head of Service for Adult Critical Care Email address: Kelvin.wright1@nhs.net Telephone number: 01623 622515. Visits and meetings by arrangement with Ms Vicky Wagstaff – vicky.wagstaff@nhs.net (ACCU PA to Head of Service).

Seniority level: Mid-Senior level Employment type: Full-time Job function: Health Care Provider Industries: Hospitals and Health Care