ACCOTS Duty Consultant

The ACCOTS Duty Consultant role is a specialist consultant position within the Adult Critical Care Co-ordination and Transfer Service, responsible for the triage, coordination, clinical leadership, and delivery of safe transfer of critically ill adult patients across the Midlands region. The post combines advanced intensive care and anaesthetic expertise with operational decision-making, multidisciplinary leadership, governance, education, and quality improvement within a highly responsive regional transfer service.

The role offers the opportunity to work in a dedicated, consultant-led critical care transfer and retrieval service operating across multiple NHS organisations. It provides a dynamic and autonomous working environment with exposure to complex, time-critical retrieval medicine, alongside opportunities to contribute to regional pathways, service development, governance, and education within an expert multidisciplinary team., The ACCOTS Duty Consultant is expected to provide consultant-level clinical leadership for the triage, coordination, and transfer of critically ill adult patients across the Midlands region. The role requires the ability to independently assess, stabilise, and manage complex patients requiring urgent or time-critical transfer, while ensuring safe, effective, and compassionate care throughout the patient journey. The postholder will work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, provide operational decision support, supervise transfer practitioners, and contribute to governance, education, audit, and quality improvement activities.

Essential skills and qualities include extensive experience in Intensive Care Medicine and/or Anaesthesia, excellent clinical decision-making, and the ability to work effectively under pressure in unpredictable environments. Strong leadership, communication, teamwork, and organisational skills are essential, alongside the ability to prioritise workload and make autonomous decisions. The role requires highly developed non-technical skills, professionalism, resilience, adaptability, and a commitment to patient safety and continuous improvement. The postholder must also be physically capable of working within the ambulance and transfer environment, including manual handling and prolonged transfer activity.

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.