Resident Doctor Critical Care/ITU Level 3 Unit

Resident Doctor (Senior registrar) – Adult Critical Care / ITU Level 1-3 Unit 

• Location: London, St John’s Wood. The Wellington Hospital,
• Contract: Permanent, Part-Time 30 Hrs Per Week.
• Days/Shifts: Monday – Sunday -  24 Hours Shifts pattern
• Salary: Circa £75,0000 - £80,000 FTE Per Annum (DOE)
• Benefits: Private Medical Healthcare Insurance, paid indemnity, private pension, paid study leave, investment of education or research, plus more below.

We are seeking Senior Registrar-level doctors with a background in intensive care medicine (with experience in management of cardiac, neuro and hepatobiliary post-operative patients, preferably with final exams in ICU or anaesthesia completed), to work on the Adult ITU Ward at The Wellington Hospital, North and South Building. You’ll work alongside leading consultants and an exceptional multidisciplinary team to care for patients, adults both short stay and long stay complex needs with a 24-hrs shift pattern.

While we are a Consultant Led Service, we believe in empowering our Resident Doctors, so your role could become expand as much as you wish. You’ll have the chance to be involved in audits, projects and quality improvement initiatives alongside the opportunity to join a variety of internal networks. This could be to help steer the services you deliver, speaking up or patient satisfaction focus groups, clinical governance or MDT meetings. Giving you an opportunity to network with your peers, share best practice and expand your knowledge in an unrivalled setting. 

What you will do:

• Providing day-to-day inpatient medical management for adult inpatients of mixed specialties on the Critical Care Ward (ICU/HDU)
• clerking and managing planned and unplanned admissions, daily ward rounds, and routine / urgent clinical reviews and documenting accordingly.
• Collaborating closely with internationally recognised consultants, specialist therapists, and nurses in all aspects of medical care, of short-stay and long-stay patients
• Completing a range of medical procedures, including insertion of central venous catheter/vascaths, insertion of arterial lines,  airway management (e.g. intubation, management of tracheostomies)
• Reviewing unwell patients across the hospital and supporting junior medical Teams
• Participating in resus teams activities

What You’ll Bring

• GMC registration and licence to practise in the UK

• Completion of Foundation training and at least IMT-2/Core Medical Training (or equivalent)

• Minimum 3-4 specialist experience in Critical Care Wards / ideally with cardiac or neurological ITU patients.

• A passion for teamwork and delivering exceptional patient care

• Current ALS

• Able to manage complex airways

Why HCA UK?

Originally founded over 50 years ago by Dr Thomas Frist, HCA has gone on to become one of the world’s leading healthcare providers. In the UK, we’re one of the largest providers of privately funded healthcare and have invested over £500 million in the latest treatments, technology, techniques, medication and facilities. Being part of a large multisite, established healthcare group we can offer you unrivalled opportunities for career progression through internal and external courses, as well as working conditions that prioritise both your mental and physical wellbeing.  

We believe that by caring for our employees, we empower them to provide exceptional care for our patients. That’s why we offer a host of flexible benefits that reflect the invaluable contribution they make every day. As a Resident Doctor Critical Care you’ll be eligible for:

• For 40 hours full time contracts, 264 hours holiday each year (inclusive of bank holidays) increasing with service, with option to buy or sell leave to suit you. This is pro-rata for part time contracts.

• Private Healthcare Insurance for treatment at our leading hospitals Private pension contribution which increases with length of service

• Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work scheme

• Group Life Assurance from day one

• Critical illness cover

• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay

• Corporate staff discount for all facilities including Maternity packages at The Portland

• Comprehensive range of flexible health, protection and lifestyle benefits to suit you

• Discounts with over 800 major retailers

• Access to wellbeing support tools, through our thrive 365 channels, onsite mental health first aiders, and free counselling up to 6 sessions per annum

• Paid Indemnity

How we can support your development:

• As Doctor with us you’ll have access to a dedicated study budget and study leave for courses relevant to your specialty

• We can also offer you access to a comprehensive learning academy where you can enrol on courses or Harvard Business Course case review forums 

• If you’d like to develop further, we’re able to offer grants and sponsorship for research, as well as funding for personal development through courses such as the ‘Executive Masters in Medical Leadership’ in partnership with Bayes Business School, or other courses such as MBA’s or PhDs

• Should you wish, you can also work closely with globally recognised professors and medical mentors to help produce publications papers or research documents

Culture and values:

At HCA UK we believe exceptional care starts with our people. We celebrate the unique perspectives and different experiences each of us bring as we know that when you feel seen, heard and supported you can be at your best for our patients, and each other. 

Our mission is simple, above all else we’re committed to the care and improvement of human life, a clear statement that extends to both our patients and colleagues. To achieve this, we live and breathe four core values: 

• Unique and Individual: We recognise and value everyone as unique and individual

• Kindness and compassion: We treat people with kindness and compassion

• Honesty, integrity and fairness: - We act with absolute honesty, integrity and fairness

• Loyalty, respect and dignity: We trust and treat one another as valued members of the HCA UK family with loyalty, respect and dignity

Reasonable adjustments:

We believe everyone should feel comfortable to bring their full self to work and be afforded the same opportunities. As a Disability Confident committed organisation, we’re happy to discuss flexible working arrangements to suit your needs as well as offer reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, and in the workplace, to anyone that needs them.

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