Consultant in Critical Care Transfer (ARCC KSS): Sponsorship Available

Job summary

We are excited to welcome applications for Consultants to join the Adult Critical Care Transfer team (ACCTS) in Kent, Surrey & Sussex (KSS). This exciting new service, known as ARCC KSS, is hosted by RSFT and will strive to provide a high standard of clinical to adult patients requiring inter-hospital transfers across the region and into London for reasons such as escalation of care, repatriation, capacity and continuation of care.

Consultants in Critical Care Transfer are doctors on the GMC Specialist Register for Intensive Care Medicine (ICM) or Anaesthesia or a both, who will work with Transfer Practitioners (TPs) and Emergency Care Support Workers (ECSWs) as part of the ARCC Clinical Transfer Team.

Applications are welcomed from Consultant and Specialists with alternative specialist registration, but you may be appointed with restrictions.

The ARCC clinical transfer team will deliver high-quality, safe and effective care whilst undertaking inter-hospital transfers primarily across KSS but into neighbouring regions on occasion. The Transfer Consultant provides support, care and necessary clinical interventions to patients in the hospital and transfer environment, using appropriate skills and equipment, ensuring they are transferred efficiently and safely to a facility which is best suited to provide treatment for their on-going clinical needs.

Main duties of the job

In addition, the Transfer Consultant will be required to take referrals from healthcare providers across KSS and be able to provide advice and guidance to referring teams, allocate an urgency and priority to each transfer and communicate effectively to mobilise teams and update the referring and receiving Trusts.

Transfer Consultants will work as part of a day time rota covering shifts from 09:00-21:00 7 days per week, 365 days per year. There are currently no night shifts as part of this service. Clinical transfer teams will be based at 2 hubs across KSS in Crawley and Maidstone. We are interested in consultants that would like to work for ARCC KSS as a regular commitment for example, average 1 or 2 PAs per week plus ad hoc shifts.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Full GMC with licence to practice
• FFICM or FRCA

Desirable

• Experienced, substantive Critical Care or Anaesthetic Consultant with experience in Critical Care Transfer.
• Relevant specialist courses (for example, difficult airway, point of care ultrasound)
• GMC Specialist Register for ICM or Anaesthetics.
• Advanced Life Support provider, trauma course provider

Experience

Essential

• Extensive experience within intensive care medicine or anaesthesia of independently assessing, resuscitating, stabilising and treating critically unwell adult patients
• Advanced airway skills (i.e. ability to deliver unplanned emergency anaesthesia in a remote environment to a critically unwell adult without supervision)
• Experience of critical care transfer
• Evidence of completion of critical care transfer training

Desirable

• Previous experience of critical care transfer and/or retrieval in a dedicated service

Closing Date: 7 October 2026