Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine inCamberley inCamberley PUBLISHED WED 18 DEC 2024

We are looking to appoint a substantive Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine at Frimley Park Hospital. They will join a team of 10 intensivists at our busy district general hospital, which is a referral centre for major vascular surgery, stroke, interventional radiology and cardiology, and a training hub for the Defence Medical Services.

The job is a full-time post comprising 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) including on-call, of which 1.5PA will be allocated to supporting professional activities (SPA).

We welcome applications from single-CCT and dual-CCT intensivists. The successful candidate must have a strong interest and suitable experience in intensive care medicine, but the role offers flexibility to include sessions in allied fields including anaesthesia, emergency medicine and medical specialities.

Candidates should be in position to take up the role by August 2025

PURPOSE OF JOB:The post has arisen due to an anticipated vacancy.

Job Planning:

The Job Plan will be a prospective agreement between the appointee and the Chief-of-Service, that sets out a consultant's duties, responsibilities, and objectives for the coming year. It covers all aspects of a consultant's professional practice including clinical work, teaching, research, education and managerial responsibilities. It provides a clear schedule of commitments, both internal and external. In addition, it includes personal objectives, including details of links to wider service objectives, and details of support required by the consultant to fulfil the job plan and the objectives. Changes having budgetary or contractual implications would also need the agreement of the Chief Executive.

The job plan for the successful candidate will be finalised following appointment and prior to commencement in post, considering the subspecialty interests of the appointee and the needs of the department. Typically, a 10 PA job plan would involve 1.5 days of clinical work per week (4.5 PA), and 0.5 days of SPA activity (1.5 SPA). 2.5 PA are allocated for emergency out-of-hours work on a 1:10 non-resident on-call rota. The remaining 1.5 PA is accounted for by occasional 5-day weeks as the duty intensivist, which are rostered with an average frequency of 5.2 times per year. Dual CCT consultants who practice in two specialities are allocated 1.75 SPA.

About us

Department of Theatres, Anaesthetics and Critical Care at Frimley Park Hospital:

The ACSA-accredited anaesthetic department has 56 Consultant Anaesthetists, providing anaesthetic duties in 18 theatres, in addition to several areas outside the theatre complex, including obstetrics, interventional radiology, endoscopy and cardiac catheterisation suites. They also work at Heatherwood Hospital, a newly built £100m state-of-the-art elective surgery hub, which opened in March 2022.

The department provides a cardio-pulmonary exercise testing service, an acute and chronic pain service, and a high-risk pre-operative clinic. It is an ESRA-approved training centre for regional anaesthesia. The department supports an obstetric service managing over 5500 deliveries per year.

Post Anaesthetic Care Unit:

There are 3 PACUs within Frimley Park Hospital, each located alongside a theatre suite. The main theatre PACU also functions as an overnight recovery unit for complex post-operative patients. There is capacity for up to four post-operative patients requiring level 2 care and these patients are managed jointly by the ICU and anaesthetic teams. The unit is also able to support the ICU and will manage Level 3 critical care patients when the critical care unit capacity is under pressure.