Consultant Critical Care Medicine

Job description

Applications are invited for a substantive consultant post in Critical Care Medicine, based in the Adult Critical Care Unit (ACCU) at The Royal London Hospital. There will be a sessional commitment to Newham University Hospital on a 70:30 basis RLH:NUH. Applications are welcome from doctors in any specialty with appropriate training and qualifications in critical care medicine (intensive care medicine, anaesthetists, physicians, emergency medicine doctors). It is expected that applicants have advanced training in critical care medicine as defined by the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine or provide evidence of similar training and experience.

The Royal London Hospital (RLH) is a leading trauma centre and tertiary referral centre for neurosciences (including a hyper-acute stroke centre), vascular, renal, hepato-biliary medicine and surgery. The hospital provides acute general medical and surgical services (including obstetrics) for the local population; there is a busy emergency department where over 130,000 patients a year are seen.

This post offers the opportunity to form part of a team of seventeen intensivists running the Royal London intensive care unit. This is a modern 44 bedded critical care unit consists of a mixture of level 2 and 3 beds. Over 2000 patients are admitted to the ACCU each year, approximately 30% of whom have trauma related injuries. Additional service provision includes critical care outreach and a follow-up clinic; we also have an active research department led by Professor Rupert Pearse. We have an expanded bed base due to COVID-19 and it is likely we will have intensive care units on two floors of the hospital.

Company Description

2.5 million people living in east London and beyond look to the services run by the Barts Health group of hospitals to provide them with the healthcare they need. We are the biggest NHS teaching trust in the country, and our challenges are those of a large and complex organisation. Coming to work for Barts Health mean you will gain experience like no other NHS trust. We offer you the opportunity and support to experience a wide and varied career within one Trust.

Recent improvements has led to a stronger focus on providing Safe and Compassionate care to our patients and this has increased opportunities available to learn, develop and expand your career. We believe that providing excellent education, training and development for our staff is essential. We offer a wide range of benefits for example access to childcare vouchers, home-electronic scheme giving you discounted prices for home –electronics, salary sacrifice for cars, season ticket loans and access to staff discount for local restaurants and gyms

So while we are improving, you can too - within a professionally challenging yet exciting environment.