Consultant Intensivist

  • Full Time
  • United Kingdom
  • 113,565 to 150,569 £ / Year

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

Job summary

Substantive Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

AAC Interview Date: August/September TBC

JOB OVERVIEW

We are seeking motivated and enthusiastic people to join our dedicated team in Critical Care. Our team consists of 11 consultants, 24 junior doctors, and over 100 nurses and AHPs in our two Critical Care units.

Why join us?

Career development: There is an opportunity to negotiate an additional 1 PA in a complementary specialty or subspecialise in an area of ICU.

Education: Accredited for FICM Stage 1, 2, and 3 training. We are developing CESR-training pathways in collaboration with St George’s Hospital. We aim to expand our echocardiogram and simulation training. The ICU team also provide education to other teams outside ICU and undergraduates from St George’s Hospital Medical School.

Innovative environment: We provide a 7-day, 24h critical care outreach service in St Helier Hospital and aim to expand this to Epsom by Summer 2026.

Inclusion and Diversity:

We are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workplace and welcome candidates from all backgrounds.

Apply today!

If you are passionate about delivering outstanding care and eager to contribute to our education and research programmes, we want to hear from you. Apply now to join our dedicated team at Epsom and St Helier Hospital

Main duties of the job

About the units

St Helier ICU: 13 beds, providing full level 3 and 2 care.

Epsom HDU: 6-8 level 2 beds.

Annual admissions: 1400 patients, including 700 emergency medical patients, 350 emergency surgical patients, and 350 patients following complex elective surgery.

Consultant Rota:

The ICU consultants work 1 in 9-person rota on an annualised job plan. The 9-week rota typically includes:

7 days as the consultant of the week in St Helier ICU (08:00-18:00h daily, with overnight on-calls at weekends),

5 days in Epsom HDU (08:00-18:00h),

5 second on-call shifts in St Helier ICU working alongside the Consultant of the week (08:00-21:00h on site, 21:00-08:00h on-call from home within 30 minutes travel distance).

Specialties and Collaboration:

We support all general specialties and admit patients from regional Renal, Haematology, and Oncology units. Our in-reach service helps our hospitals achieve the trust’s mission statement of ‘delivering outstanding care every day’. We are part of the South West London Adult Critical Care network (SWLACC)

Supportive team: We provide an in-reach service to the Medicine department, while also collaborating with Anaesthetics, Surgery, Emergency, and Renal departments, and other regional ICUs

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Specialist registration* in Intensive Care Medicine (either solely or in combination with another specialty) or within 6 months of achieving this.
  • EDIC and / or FFICM and / or equivalent
  • A license to practice with the General Medical Council**
  • Good Clinical Practice training (GCP)

Desirable

  • MSc, MD(res), PhD or similar
  • Educational supervision training that fulfils the Trust’s minimum requirements***

Experience

Essential

  • Ability to take full and independent responsibility for the clinical care of ICU patients
  • Ability to teach & train junior medical staff and undergraduate students
  • Experience of leading clinical audits, quality improvement programmes, implementing change and monitoring compliance

Desirable

  • Educational training, and/or echocardiography and bedside ultrasound accreditation, and/or Simulation training, and/or Critical Care Transfers and training (eg Access).
  • Postgraduate research, publications in peer reviewed literature
  • Experience of the CESR/portfolio pathway

Skills

Essential

  • Ability to organise, prioritise, delegate, and manage
  • Ability to work productively in multidisciplinary teams
  • Ability to develop rapport with and discuss treatment options with patients in a way they can understand
  • High level of verbal and written communication skills
  • Awareness of own personal development needs
  • Demonstrable ability to cope under pressure
  • Teaching and presentation skills
  • IT skills

Desirable

  • Development of clinical information systems

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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 3 August 2026

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