Countess of Chester Hospital
Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine & Anaesthesia
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The department is seeking to appoint a consultant intensivist, with sessions in anaesthesia. The candidate will integrate into the team of existing consultants to provide a complete intensive care service, including the equivalent of a full-time commitment to ICU hot weeks, ICU on call and weekend cover.
This post has arisen from a vacancy in the Department of Anaesthesia & Intensive Care. It will add resilience to ICU consultant staffing and support an appropriate ratio of consultants to patients as described in GPICS guidelines.
The job plan can be adapted to accommodate a single specialty ICM candidate.
About the Unit
The Intensive Care Unit consists of 21 single rooms, each of which can be used for either level two or three care. Fifteen beds are commissioned on a flexible level 2/3 basis, funded as seven level three and eight level two beds. The additional rooms allow for future expansion, provide surge capacity and allow the ICU team to work flexibly to accommodate patients while maintaining staff patient ratios. The unit supports the tertiary South Mersey Arterial hub’s activity.
About the Role
The successful candidate could be a single-CCT intensivist or hold CCTs in both ICM and anaesthesia or another specialty such as emergency medicine. It is also open to those who are within six months of attaining CCT.
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The successful post holder will be responsible for providing intensive care cover along with the other intensivists. Currently all the Intensivists are also anaesthetists who provide elective and emergency anaesthesia care when not on their intensive care hot weeks or on the ICU. The on-call commitment will be 1:11 (including this post) to cover the intensive care on call rota. The weekend on-call commitment will be 1:11 for long days and overnight on call. There are additional short-day weekends (so that there are two intensivists for the morning ward rounds) making the overall weekend commitment 1 in 7.5 or approximately 7 each year.
Irrespective of other commitments, the post holder will contribute fully to the ICU on call, daytime and weekend ICU consultant cover. If the candidate undertakes anaesthesia (in a consultant or non-consultant capacity), they will work a 10 PA contract with core 1.5 SPA included to meet the needs for appraisal and revalidation.
About the Trust
The Trust’s services are provided from three locations:
- The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 473 general and acute beds.
- Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 60 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility.
- Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.
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The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust employs 5,964 staff (headcount) to provide care and treatment to a population of over 400,000 people living in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire.
The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care System. Due to its location on the border with North Wales, the Trust also works closely with the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board.
The Trust treats patients from England and some parts of Wales. During 2024/2025, there were approximately 643,000 patient attendances (inpatient, A&E, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Dr K Tizard
- Job title: ICU Clinical Lead
- Email address: k.tizard@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 01244365461
For informal discussion about this post please contact the consultant as detailed above.
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