Resident Medical Officer (RMO) Adult Intensive Care Unit

Job Description:

Resident Medical Officer – Adult Intensive Care Unit
Cromwell Hospital, London, SW5 0TU

Salary: £76,000 a year

30 hours a week

The shifts are from

08:00 to 20:00 (short days)

20:00 to 08:00 (short nights)

08:00 to 08:00 (long days)

We make health happen.

Cromwell Hospital is seeking an anaesthetic or Intensive Care Medicine (ICM) speciality doctor or trainee, to join the team at The Cromwell hospital ICU to actively develop their clinical skills and experience a wide range of clinical specialities. The department prides itself on fostering a supportive and collaborative environment for junior medical colleagues to develop.

Notwithstanding the clinical experience particularly around complex medical patients with critical illness, the successful candidate will work in a department that is particularly active in teaching and quality improvement schedules.

You will join a team of 5 full time residents (RMOs) and you will be expected to fulfil 120 hours per month (shifts either 24 hours or 12 hours)

Key Responsibilities

• You will hold responsibility for the day-to-day management of all patients on the ICU in conjunction with the Intensive Care consultant.
• A full ward round with the MDT is held each morning and a secondary clinical round every evening, including holidays and weekends.
• Review and assessment of direct referrals to the ICU or via the Outreach service.
• You will participate in the development and updating of administrative and clinical protocols.
• In addition, you will actively participate in education programmes in the hospital and will show a willingness to undertake continuing professional development. They will attend the Journal Club.
• You’ll be expected participate in the hospital’s quality improvement action plan and adverse incident / sentinel event reporting program and will attend Morbidity and Mortality Meetings

Skills & Experience requirements

• Good understanding of both spoken and written English
• Broad training in all aspects of Intensive Care Medicine
• Ability to manage the acutely unwell and deteriorating patient
• Ability to recognise the dying patient and administer end of life care
• Evidence of an interest in research
• Analytical skills
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Ability to develop personal research projects and exercise initiative
• Ability to present at conferences and seminars with authority and coherence
• Attendance at internal seminars clinical audit, mortality and morbidity meetings
• Excellent written communication skills and the ability to write technical reports clearly and succinctly for publication
• Ability to demonstrate innovative and original thinking
• Ability to organise and prioritise work with minimal supervision
• Ability to meet deadlines

What We Offer

• Work in one of London’s most prestigious private hospitals
• Supportive environment with high clinical standards
• Competitive salary and benefits package
• In-house annual appraisal process

Why Bupa?

We are a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. We reinvest profits into providing more and better healthcare for the benefit of current and future customers.

Our benefits are driven by what matters to our people. It’s important to us that these benefits support a work-life balance that keeps people healthy, both mentally and physically. You’ll be eligible for:

• Equivalent to 25 days holiday per year, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
• Annual performance-based bonus
• Support with travel costs via a season ticket loan or cycle2work
• Discounted access to online gym sessions through Gympass
• Various other benefits and online discounts

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

Time Type:

Part time

Job Area:

Clinical Services

Locations:

Cromwell Hospital London