Consultant in Critical Care | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 03 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £101,694 - £134,126 + LW per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 July 2025 |
| Location: | London, N18 1QX |
| Company: | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7032079/391-NMUH-7032079 |
Summary
We are looking for an enthusiastic and energetic candidate to join a team of ten full time Intensive Care consultants at North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust, UK. The hospital serves a large and vibrant population of 640,000 in north London, and has 633 acute beds with one of the busiest Emergency Departments in the country. Our 23-bedded intensive care unit admits around 1000 patients every year.
The unit offers unique opportunities in clinical research, teaching, simulation, clinical audits and quality improvement projects. If appointed, you will supervise and train excellent tiers of middle grade resident doctors that cover the unit 24 x 7. The rota structure and on calls are designed to offer well-deserved breaks after a series of on calls. It is a locum (temporary) appointment of 12 months with a potential to secure a permanent contract at the end of it.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work with colleagues and the Clinical Audit and Effectiveness department to ensure that relevant clinical audits are carried out.
Consultants have continuing responsibility for the care of patients in their charge and for the proper functioning of their department. They are expected to undertake administrative duties associated with the care of their patients and the running of their clinical departments.
The appointee will be expected to take responsibility for maintaining their continuing medical education to the standard set by the relevant Royal College.
This appointee is expected to contribute actively to developing clinical governance in both departments. The GMC’s Good Medical Practice guidelines form the basis of the responsibilities and standards expected of the Trust’s consultants.
All newly appointed consultants will be issued with an Induction Programme and mandatory training, all aspects of which are mandatory. There is a well-established annual appraisal process for all consultants and non-consultant career grades in the Trust.
It is a condition of employment that all staff have a responsibility for Infection Control. The appointee will therefore be expected to attend mandatory Infection Control courses on appointment and to participate actively in measures designed to reduce Health Care Associated Infections (HCAIs).
The appointee will be expected to fulfil the relevant Royal College’s requirements for Continuing Medical Education (CME) or Continuing Professional Development (CPD) as a minimum.
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
Take a tour of our hospitalhere
The Critical Care Department in the hospital includes an Intensive Care (ICU) and a High Dependency (HDU). ICU has a total of 8 individual rooms with single beds and 2 large rooms with 2 beds each. All rooms in ICU are negative pressure rooms. HDU has 09 beds including 3 single rooms and two large 3 bedded areas. All beds in the Critical Care Complex are equipped with full monitoring facilities and a central monitoring station on each side.
The Critical Care Complex admits close to 1000 patients per year. Median length of stay for the unit is 3.4(1.8-6.9) days. Bed occupancy is more than 90% for majority of time. Turnover of patients is really high hence the unit is a very busy. Of the all the referrals over 90% are from medical specialities. There is a weekly radiology meeting on Thursday morning. Microbiology involved multi-disciplinary meeting is held every day afternoon in the critical care complex. Daily there are two consultant lead ward rounds plus a night telephone ward round. There are two handovers every day directly supervised by critical care consultants. Critical care also provides 24/7 outreach services to the hospital. It is led by a lead nurse for outreach. Critical care provides a follow up clinic bimonthly for identified patients. There are plans in place to increase the frequency of this clinic to once a month.
This advert closes on Tuesday 17 Jun 2025