Consultant Intensivist
Closing date: 03 August 2026
Substantive Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust.
AAC Interview Date: August/September TBC
Job Overview
We are seeking motivated and enthusiastic people to join our dedicated team in Critical Care. Our team consists of 11 consultants, 24 junior doctors, and over 100 nurses and AHPs in our two Critical Care units.
Career development: There is an opportunity to negotiate an additional 1 PA in a complementary specialty or subspecialise in an area of ICU.
Education: Accredited for FICM Stage 1, 2, and 3 training. We are developing CESR-training pathways in collaboration with St George’s Hospital. We aim to expand our echocardiogram and simulation training. The ICU team also provide education to other teams outside ICU and undergraduates from St George’s Hospital Medical School.
Innovative environment: We provide a 7-day, 24h critical care outreach service in St Helier Hospital and aim to expand this to Epsom by Summer 2026.
Inclusion and Diversity: We are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workplace and welcome candidates from all backgrounds.
Main Duties
About the units:
St Helier ICU: 13 beds, providing full level 3 and 2 care.
Annual admissions: 1400 patients, including 700 emergency medical patients, 350 emergency surgical patients, and 350 patients following complex elective surgery.
The ICU consultants work 1 in 9-person rota on an annualised job plan. The 9-week rota typically includes:
- 7 days as the consultant of the week in St Helier ICU (08:00-18:00h daily, with overnight on-calls at weekends),
- 5 second on-call shifts in St Helier ICU working alongside the Consultant of the week (08:00-21:00h on site, 21:00-08:00h on-call from home within 30 minutes travel distance).
Specialties and Collaboration: We support all general specialties and admit patients from regional Renal, Haematology, and Oncology units. Our in-reach service helps our hospitals achieve the trust’s mission statement of ‘delivering outstanding care every day’. We are part of the South West London Adult Critical Care network (SWLACC).
Supportive team: We provide an in-reach service to the Medicine department, while also collaborating with Anaesthetics, Surgery, Emergency, and Renal departments, and other regional ICUs.
Job Responsibilities
10 PA contract: 8.3 DCCs (outlined above); 1.7 SPAs (including revalidation, educational supervision, and clinical governance).
Contribute to our weekly Morbidity and Mortality meetings, monthly ICU Consultant and Clinical Governance meetings, and divisional Quality and Audit meetings.
Assist with our teaching programmes, including bedside echocardiography and simulation training.
Our Commitment: We are proud of our reputation for delivering safe and effective care and providing high quality education. We contribute to a number of national audits, including ICNARC, NELA, and PQIP. Our current SMR is 0.81. Since 2020, we have been short-listed twice for the national Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) award, we have had several peer-reviewed publications, and have presented at national and international conferences.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- Specialist registration* in Intensive Care Medicine (either solely or in combination with another specialty) or within 6 months of achieving this.
- EDIC and / or FFICM and / or equivalent
- A license to practice with the General Medical Council**
- Good Clinical Practice training (GCP)
- MSc, MD(res), PhD or similar
- Educational supervision training that fulfils the Trust’s minimum requirements***
Experience
- Ability to take full and independent responsibility for the clinical care of ICU patients
- Ability to teach & train junior medical staff and undergraduate students
- Experience of leading clinical audits, quality improvement programmes, implementing change and monitoring compliance
- Educational training, and/or echocardiography and bedside ultrasound accreditation, and/or Simulation training, and/or Critical Care Transfers and training (eg Access).
- Postgraduate research, publications in peer reviewed literature
- Experience of the CESR/portfolio pathway
Skills
- Ability to organise, prioritise, delegate, and manage
- Ability to work productively in multidisciplinary teams
- Ability to develop rapport with and discuss treatment options with patients in a way they can understand
- High level of verbal and written communication skills
- Awareness of own personal development needs
- Demonstrable ability to cope under pressure
- Teaching and presentation skills
- Development of clinical information systems
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
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