Intensive Care Consultant - Plymouth, United Kingdom - University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust

University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust

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Plymouth, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

This is a substantive Intensive Care Consultant post, the successful applicant will join the rota of 18 whole time equivalent intensive care consultants.

The Department of Intensive Care Medicine comprises the General Intensive Care Unit (Penrose Ward), Neuro Intensive Care Unit (Pencarrow Ward), and the Acute Care Team (Intensive Care Outreach, Hospital at Night and Vascular Access Services).

The Department of Intensive Care has over 150 staff with an annual budget of over £10m.

The Intensive Care department has ambitious plans to open an additional 10 bedded Intensive Care Unit adjoining our existing facilities.

The design work has been completed with building works scheduled to commence in 2023.

This post will form part of an expanding team of intensivists required to cover the developing Intensive Care needs in a large busy tertiary and major trauma centre.

Penrose and Pencarrow wards opened in 2008 and between them provide a capacity for up to 28 ICU beds, all equipped to level 3 standards.

The beds are used flexibly to accommodate the High Dependency and intensive Care requirements of Derriford Hospital; a very large acute university hospital that caters for a secondary care catchment population of 450,000 and a wider tertiary Peninsula population of almost 2,000,000.

Derriford hospital is the regional Major Trauma Centre and neurosciences centre.

Ten of the beds are on the neuro intensive care unit, these are managed flexibly with the general ICU beds to accommodate the variations in acute and elective capacity requirements.

The hospital has a separate cardiac intensive care unit of 18 beds with an independent consultant team but there are close working links to the general ICU.

The intensive care unit is mixed medical and surgical with approximately an 80:20 split of emergency to elective work.

We have excellent outcomes on national benchmarking through the ICNARC programme and good relations with our colleagues across the region through the South West Critical Care Network.

The department has a comprehensive admin, secretarial, data specialist and ward clerk team that provide support to the medical and nursing teams.

The consultants have shared office space with desks and computers, and hot desks available within the ICU.

Proposed Job Plan

For illustrative purposes only, the actual timetable will be agreed with the Service Line Director on appointment.

The job plan is for a consultant undertaking a total of 10 programmed activities that will be divided into:

1. Direct Clinical Care (8.

5 PA):

Intensive care unit sessions will be worked flexibly, generally in blocks of days (including evenings, nights and weekend) as outlined in the rolling programme below with approximately 204 provided per annum equal to an average of 4.9 PA per week.

The post holder will be required to undertake intensive care sessions at weekends and evenings in addition to night time on call duties.

Supporting Professional Activities (1.5 PA baseline up to 2.

5 PA):

1.

5 PAs of generic SPA are included for the following duties:

Administration

Audit and Clinical Governance

CPD & appraisal and revalidation

Directorate and HMSC meetings

Up to 1.0 non generic SPA may be allocated for specific trust related activities as agreed with the Service Line Director on an annual basis according to the service line SPA allocations.

Most of the current consultants have additional SPA activities including for example:
education lead and junior doctor supervision; governance lead, echo lead, medical school teaching.

Academic PAs

If a post holder is appointed to an academic post within the University of Plymouth then their clinical job plan and SPAs would be reduced pro rata and by negotiation with the clinical director.

Total Average Weekly Programmed Activities = 10 PA