Locum Consultant in Critical Care
| Posting date: | 03 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £105,504.00 to £139,882.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £105504.00 - £139882.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 June 2025 |
| Location: | London, N18 1QX |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | C9391-25-1089 |
Summary
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.