Trust Grade SHO in Intensive Care Medicine

Kettering Anaesthetic department is looking to appoint a Trust Grade doctor to join our existing team providing junior doctor cover. The job includes a full shift system with resident on-call duty either in the Intensive Care Unit or theatres. There is dedicated 24 hour Consultant cover with immediate day time and distant night time supervision. The post-holder will be part of the in Hospital cardiac arrest and trauma team., Working on the Intensive Care Unit as part of the wider team, assessing new patients, admitting new patients, initial stabilisation, resuscitation, invasive procedures, ongoing care and discharge planning. We also have 24 hour Emergency department, and successful candidates will have the opportunity to attend critically unwell patients at first presentation. There is also a 24 hour primary PCI facility, and there will be occasional need to support our cardiology colleagues with unstable patients in the Cath Lab.

Supporting the simulation lead to deliver quality clinical simulation sessions to a variety of staff.

Applicants for the post should have completed at least 2 years of anaesthetics training previously. Duties in the posts will be based on prior experience and depending on experience either an SHO or Registrar level post may be offered.

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University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN) brings together Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust. As a group, we are committed to improving services for our communities through collaboration, modernising care delivery and striving for excellence. Working together enables us to share expertise, strengthen services and create greater opportunities, and there may be a requirement to work across sites depending on service needs.