A substantive consultant post on the Adult Critical Care Co-ordination and Transfer service, the Midlands region's commissioned critical care transfer team hosted by University Hospitals of Leicester. The work centres on triaging and co-ordinating referrals, supervising clinical care and leading teaching and governance for the transfer team. Annualised hours apply, on a minimum 2.0 PA contract, and transfers can run beyond the duty period. Full GMC registration and a specialist register entry in Intensive Care Medicine or Anaesthesia are required.
What the job involves
- Triage, co-ordination and decision support for all referrals to ACCOTS
- Receive referrals, give clinical and logistical advice, and allocate transfer resource or signpost alternatives when out of scope
- Manage the tasking of clinical transfer teams
- Provide clinical leadership and support to the multidisciplinary transfer team
- Develop and implement treatment plans with the transfer team and service users
- Ensure the safe, timely and efficient transfer of critically ill patients within the operating region
- Follow and ensure adherence to SOPs for referral handling, deployment, clinical pathways and service operations
- Maintain high quality clinical records
- Support the induction and development of transfer team members, and engage with the service education programme and training days
- Maintain personal competency and currency in adult critical care delivery
- Present cases at clinical governance days, and contribute to quality improvement, audit, research and SOP development
- Act as an ambassador for the service, modelling its values and behaving professionally at all times
What’s required
Registration & licences
- Full GMC registration with licence to practise
- Specialist register entry in Intensive Care Medicine or Anaesthesia
- Compliance with GMC Good Medical Practice, appraisal and revalidation requirements
Experience
- NHS consultant or equivalent
- Experience in Intensive Care Medicine or Anaesthesia, with an interest in Intensive Care Medicine
- Extensive experience independently assessing, resuscitating, stabilising and treating critically ill and injured adults (FICM Level 4 or RCoA Stage 3 equivalent)
- Demonstrable training, competency and regular current exposure to in-hospital critical care delivery
Skills & knowledge
- Excellent verbal and written communication and non-technical skills
- Leading and working within a high-performing small team
- Working flexibly and adaptably under pressure and in emotive situations
- Problem-solving and decision-making
- Working unsupervised and managing own workload
- Time management and organisational skills
Other
- Fitness for critical care transfer work, including manual handling and carrying equipment
- Comfort working in the ambulance environment, including confined spaces and motion
Nice to have
- Higher qualification in retrieval or transfer medicine, such as the Diploma in Retrieval and Transfer Medicine
- Formal training or postgraduate qualification in leadership and management
- Relevant specialist courses, such as Advanced Life Support, European Trauma Course, point of care ultrasound or difficult airway management
- Previous critical care transfer or retrieval medicine experience in a dedicated service
- Clinical leadership and management experience
- Evidence of specific training in non-technical skills
- Evidence of specific training in advanced communication
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The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
