BARTS HEALTH NHS TRUST

Locum Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine

259-MED366SBH

Applicants are invited to apply for the position of Locum Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine within Perioperative Medicine (POM) at St Bartholomew's Hospital (Barts Health NHS Trust). The post is a fixed term appointment of 6 months that may be extendable to 1 year.

St Bartholomew's Hospital has state-of-the-art facilities for the treatment of patients with cardiovascular and thoracic disease, including 10 operating theatres, 10 catheter labs, 255 general cardiac beds, with 98 higher acuity care beds, including 58 critical care beds. In addition St Bartholomew's Hospital operates a large clinical service for patients with cancer, including haematological malignancy.

The Perioperative Medicine service at St Bartholomew's Hospital cares for over 2000 patients per year undergoing cardiac surgery and over 3000 patients per year in the 4 ICUs on the 1st and 6th floors of the KGV Building.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for the best talent to lead our ambitious new healthcare organisation. In return, Barts Health will provide unsurpassed professional development opportunities, enabling investment in a range of new initiatives that would mean:

• doctors and nurses in training will be able to gain experience in different hospitals along the whole patient pathway;
• there would be greater opportunity for career progression - we could retain good staff who might otherwise leave to gain promotion;
• becoming world-class will enable us to recruit some of the best doctors and researchers in the world - who can share their knowledge and experience;
• Joining forces with other partners in an Academic Health Science System will mean that staff would be better able to secure funds and pool their talents to develop new technology, techniques and treatments

About us

Our WeCare values shape everything that we do, every single day. They are visible in every interaction we have with each other, our patients, their families and our partners.

WeCare about everything from the appointment letters our patients receive, to the state of our facilities when they walk through the door, to the care and compassion they receive when they are discharged. WeCare that the people who join our trust will hold the same values as we do, so our values are embedded within our recruitment and selection processes. WeCare that you feel valued working here, so our values also guide our training and development and performance and talent management. WeCare about working with suppliers that live and breathe our values too.

We have come a long way on our journey to delivering safe and compassionate care. By embracing these values as the way we behave around here, we will achieve our ambition for excellence.

Job description
Job responsibilities

We are looking for the best talent to lead our ambitious new healthcare organisation. In return, Barts Health will provide unsurpassed professional development opportunities, enabling investment in a range of new initiatives that would mean:

• doctors and nurses in training will be able to gain experience in different hospitals along the whole patient pathway;
• there would be greater opportunity for career progression we could retain good staff who might otherwise leave to gain promotion;
• becoming world-class will enable us to recruit some of the best doctors and researchers in the world who can share their knowledge and experience;
• Joining forces with other partners in an Academic Health Science System will mean that staff would be better able to secure funds and pool their talents to develop new technology, techniques and treatments

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• GMC

BMJRef: BMJ-88782/259-MED366SBH