Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine

About us

Lincoln County Hospital is a thriving university city and with the opening of the medical school, it provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.

United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has been granted teaching hospital status, after demonstrating evidence to significant teaching commitment.

Pilgrim Hospital is situated in beautiful countryside and serves the communities in the South Lincolnshire area. It provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) have come together in a Group arrangement, with the goal of improving the care provided to patients across the county. The Group will be known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG).

The Intensive Care Consultants at ULTH work cohesively as a team to ensure optimum patient care standards are met. It is a supportive and welcoming team with a positive work ethic and atmosphere.

We have an improving Governance structure and encourage active participation from our multi-disciplinary team.

The ICU operates on a 24/7 basis (365 days per year) and this will be inclusive of working over the bank holidays, Christmas and New Year period. Typically, you will be working during the day and at night where the hours tent to consist of the shift examples listed below.

Lincoln Hospital, we have 2 Consultants on duty. One Consultant will be working 8:00-16:00 on site while the other one will be on call shift of 8:00-8:00 (24 hours). Non-resident hours must be completed at a distance no further than 30 minutes from your on call site.

Pilgrim Hospital, there will be only one Consultant on duty over 24 hours (8:00-8:00) and again, non-resident hours must be completed at a distance no further than 30 minutes from your on call site.

The role of Consultant will be contracted to weekly job plan of 10 programmed activities (PA).

Within our roles, we consistently strive to support the community of Lincolnshire in providing specialist medical care to those who need it. As a team, we all have an active involvement in our improvement journey to making both the organisation and the ICU an even better place to work, ultimately aiming to achieve higher standards of care in the service that we provide to our adult Patients.

The ICU itself consists of 11 level 3 beds or equivalent at Lincoln County Hospital and another 7 at Boston Pilgrim Hospital.

As a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine, you will be working within a busy clinical department as the go to person for providing advanced critical care to the adult Patients that need us most. Alongside this, you will be supporting other teams and departments with your expertise whether that be verbally over the telephone or by responding to them in a different ward.

• Recognised medical degree
• Fellowship of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FICM) or equivalent.
• CCT in Intensive Care…