Consultant in Adult Critical Care: Sponsorship Available

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts

Job summary

Full-time substantive Consultant appointment with a responsibility to Adult Critical Care at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.

A recent vacancy has created the need for a Consultant in Adult Critical Care at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. The posts emphasis will be on Adult Critical Care for clinical work, however there will be opportunities for teaching, administration and development.

The contract will be for 10.0 PAs, split into 6.0 DCC PAs in Critical Care and 1.5 core SPA (plus 0.5 PAs for the first year). The remaining 2 PA could be utilised for further clinical or non-clinical work in critical care or in an associated speciality such as Anaesthesia to support the successful appointees clinical experience and qualifications.

The new Consultant will join the existing Team NUH workforce of 38 substantive Critical Care Consultants who work closely together and act as a very supportive group with a determined team ethos. This contributes to the provision of an ideal supportive environment for new consultant appointments into the advertised post.

Main duties of the job

The new Consultant will join the existing Team NUH workforce of 38 substantive Critical Care Consultants who work closely together and act as a very supportive group with a determined team ethos. This contributes to the provision of an ideal supportive environment for new consultant appointments into the advertised post.

The successful candidate will be expected to undertake formalised critical care rotations and must be able to work flexibly across the Queen’s Medical Centre (QMC) and Nottingham City Hospital (NCH) campuses.

A successful candidate will only be expected to take part in the adult critical care out of hours duty roster. Night on call frequency is currently 1:9 and weekend on call frequency 1:4.5. However, this is an annualised total and therefore may be more frequent than this over a 6 month period. This may change in the future with planned expansion in critical care bed numbers and consultant workforce.

The successful applicant will also be expected to carry out teaching duties as required.

New consultants will be able to choose a mentor from the existing Critical Care consultant team.

Person Specification

Professional Registration

Essential

  • Full GMC registration
  • Eligible to be included on the Specialist Register via: Joint CCT (or within 6 months of CCT at date of interview) in Intensive Care Medicine and a suitable partner speciality (or equivalent) or Single CCT (or within 6 months of CCT at date of interview) in Intensive Care Medicine (or equivalent) or Triple CCT in GIM/Respiratory/ICM (or within 6 months)

Desirable

  • Fellowship of Royal College of Anaesthetists (FRCA UK) or Membership of Royal College of Physicians (MRCP) or equivalent higher specialist qualification in Anaesthesia or Medicine or Emergency medicine (FRCEM).

Professional Qualifications/Development

Essential

  • Successful completion of a CCT training programme in critical care medicine (as defined by the FICM) or equivalent or within 6 months of CCT at date of interview
  • Valid trauma life support certification or 6 months experience in a major trauma centre in last 2 years
  • Post-graduate qualifications in ICM such as FFICM, EDIC or equivalent

Desirable

  • Membership of ICS/ ESICM/ SCCM
  • ATLS/ALS Instructor status
  • BSc/BMedSci or equivalent professional degree

Clinical skills/experience

Essential

  • Demonstrable of at least 18 months experience and extended training in Adult Critical Care Medicine including extensive contemporary critical care experience in the last 12 months
  • Competence in transfer and safe retrieval as evidenced by CCT

Desirable

  • Specific training in communication skills
  • Specific training in patient safety and/or human factors
  • Specific training in education/simulation based training/ experience.
  • FUSIC trained
  • Interest in critical care rehab and follow up

Management skills

Essential

  • Able to develop, present and operationalise coherent ideas for service development/delivery
  • Able to delegate appropriately
  • Able to work in a team
  • Excellent leadership skills
  • Understand the wider NHS changes including ICB

Desirable

  • Higher management degree or qualification or training
  • Experience of change management

Teaching, audit and research

Essential

  • Evidence of participation in Clinical Audit, Quality Improvement and change management
  • Able to teach and support junior staff effectively

Desirable

  • Original Research
  • Publications
  • Higher teaching degree or qualification or training

Other skills

Essential

  • Able to work flexibly in a changing health service
  • Able to use the trust’s IT and support systems
  • Can demonstrate accountability for decisions made and work in stressful situations
  • Non judgemental approach and sensitivity to patients and colleagues
  • Able to work both at QMC and City campuses

Desirable

  • Commitment to further develop the post and the service provided

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: 22 September 2026

To apply for this job please visit apps.trac.jobs.