Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia

The successful candidate will be responsible for providing intensive care cover along with the other Intensivists. Currently most of the Intensivists are also Anaesthetists who provide elective and emergency anaesthesia care when not on their intensive care hot weeks or on the ICU. The ICU on-call commitment will be 1:12 (including this post) to cover the ICU on call rota. The weekend on-call commitment will be 1:12 for long days and overnight on call. There are additional short-day weekends (so that there are two Intensivists for the morning ward rounds) making the overall weekend commitment 1 in 7.

Irrespective of other commitments, the post holder will contribute fully to the ICU on call, daytime and weekend ICU consultant cover. In addition, the successful candidate will also undertake additional sessions in anaesthesia to work a 10 PA contract with core 1.5 SPA included to meet the needs for appraisal and revalidation.

The Trust's services are provided from three locations: o The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 473 general and acute beds. o Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 60 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility. o Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population. The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust employs 5,964 staff (headcount) to provide care and treatment to a population of over 400,000 people living in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care System. Due to its location on the border with North Wales, the Trust also works closely with the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust treats patients from England and some parts of Wales. During 2024/2025, there were approximately 643,000 patient attendances
(inpatient, A&E, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery