Locum Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Locum Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine

The closing date is 22 July 2026

This post is for a locum consultant in Intensive Care. This is a whole-time 12 month FTC post offering an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated doctor to join a dynamic, rapidly expanding team delivering multidisciplinary critical care medicine in a multi award winning Critical Care Unit. Southport Hospital is part of the Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals.

Applicants are required to be fully registered with the General Medical Council, and to be on the Specialist Register.

Due to current service demands, we are only able to consider applicants who have relevant UK experience. Candidates must also be available to commence employment immediately or within a very short timeframe. We regret that we cannot progress applications that do not meet these essential requirements.

Main duties of the job

The appointee is expected to be involved in the department's undergraduate, postgraduate and Nurse Specialist teaching and other appropriate educational activities.

The appointee will be actively involved as a Clinical Supervisor but will not be directly responsible for educational supervision at least initially (this is to be reviewed at job planning).

The appointee will have a responsibility for the running of their clinical service, integrating this with the department as a whole and ensuring appropriate communication with general practitioners, managers, and hospital committees.

The appointee will be responsible for contributing to the achievement of relevant aspects of the Trust's contractual obligations and business plans.

Qualifications

• Full GMC registration at the time of application
• MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
• MRCP or equivalent medical qualification
• FFICM or equivalent
• MD/MSc or equivalent medical qualification

Knowledge

• Minimum of 6 months recent experience of working in intensive care Medicine within the NHS
• Ability to stabilise and provide initial management of the critically ill patient at a senior level.
• Demonstrable competence in Critical Care procedures.
• Current ALS Provider
• Ultrasound accreditation relevant to Critical Care
• Bed side ECHO accreditation

Skills/Management/Audit/Leadership

• Understanding of the management and leadership responsibilities of a consultant within the NHS
• Evidence of active and consistent engagement with clinical audit and/ or QIP(s)
• Recognition by the GMC as a Clinical Supervisor
• Evidence of delivering teaching to undergraduate students, postgraduate doctors and/ or allied healthcare professionals
• Good IT and computing skills.
• Successful completion of appropriate management/ leadership course(s)
• Previous participation in a management/ leadership role
• Simulation experience
• Recognition by the GMC as an Educational Supervisor
• Formal training/ qualification in Teaching and/or Learning
• Life support course instructor
• Evidence of recent and current research, with relevant publications.
• Formal training in Research Methodology

Other

• Excellent verbal and written English skills
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills, approachability and ability to motivate and develop others
• Ability to lead change and the development of services and promote excellence and best practice
• Upholds the Trust's Objectives
• Caring and responsible attitude to colleagues
• Membership of appropriate professional society(ies).
• Knowledge of the up-to-date literature.

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.

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust