University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
Consultant in General and Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Medicine
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Adult Intensive Care Medicine Consultant
We are seeking a highly trained individual committed to Adult Intensive Care Medicine with experience in managing both general and cardiothoracic intensive care patients. The successful candidate will be a dynamic individual who has experience in this field and is driven to develop the services at UHL.
Applications are welcomed from suitable candidates on the specialist register for intensive care medicine via the CCT or CESR route or those dual trained. Candidates may interview for this post within 6 months of expected CCT date. The post is suitable for either single specialty intensivists or those dual trained, please contact to discuss potential job plans.
Clinical experience before appointment to this post may be supplemented following successful interview to support service needs. This includes in-house training and the further skill development should these be required.
Key Tasks
- Provide daytime and on-call 1:18 consultant cover for the Intensive Care Unit at the Glenfield site. This currently has 26 level 3 beds used flexibly in a physical space for 32 beds.
- Maintain the highest clinical standards in the management of patients.
- Participate in the SPA activities that will be negotiable depending on the candidate interest and areas of need.
- Supervise and train junior intensive care medical and nursing staff and allied health professionals.
- Be involved in appraising and assessing junior doctors.
- Actively participate in the multiple nationally renowned courses held at Glenfield hospital.
- Actively participate in the TOE, echocardiography/critical care ultrasound and FICM teaching programme provided by the department.
- Take part in multidisciplinary long-term ward rounds.
- Engage in teaching, audit, research, and administration.
- Develop the Adult Critical Care Service along with other Adult Critical Care Consultant colleagues at UHL.
- Work with the Clinical Governance team to enhance patient safety.
- Discuss anaesthetic sessions or sessions/clinics in Medical specialties/EM depending on the specialist interest of the successful applicant.
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Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Dr Caroline Sampson
- Job title: Consultant Lead for Intensive Care
- Email address: Caroline.sampson4@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 0116 258 2315
Dr Gareth Williams, Head of Service ICU,
- Tel: 0116 2586174
- Email: Gareth.williams46@nhs.net
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