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Post: Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine
Location: Dumfries & Galloway Royal Infirmary
The Opportunity NHS Dumfries & Galloway is seeking an enthusiastic and forward-thinking Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine to join our dedicated team at the newly built Dumfries & Galloway Royal Infirmary.
We recognise that modern consultants have diverse clinical and academic interests. Therefore, the job plan for this role is highly flexible and fully negotiable. We are fully committed to supporting:
- Colleagues who hold a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in another specialty alongside Intensive Care Medicine.
- Candidates who wish to incorporate dedicated time into their job plan for medical education, teaching, or academic research.
Working within our supportive District General Hospital environment provides unparalleled, highly visible opportunities to lead on service development, governance, and quality improvement. Our consultants frequently find that this ability to make a tangible, recognized impact translates into a strong track record for achieving Discretionary Points—a distinct professional advantage often cited by colleagues moving from larger, more crowded tertiary centres.
The Critical Care Unit & Facilities Our newly built District General Hospital opened in December 2017 and offers excellent, purpose-built facilities:
- The Critical Care Unit is horizontally adjacent to the operating theatres and vertically adjacent to the Emergency Dept.
- It is a 16-bed combined Intensive Care and High Dependency Unit featuring 16 individual rooms.
- Facilities include rooms with en suite bathrooms, one isolation room, and a dedicated procedure room suitable for temporary pacemaker insertion.
- To maximise natural light, all patient bedrooms feature electrochromic glass fronts and large windows.
- There is an open-air terrace that some patients are able to benefit from.
- The unit is well-equipped with Dräger Evita V800 and Nihon Kohden ventilators, Philips monitoring, ultrasound, echocardiography, and multi-modality renal support.
- There are excellent staff facilities, including a seminar room, handover rooms, a relatives' area with overnight rooms, and adjacent on-call bedrooms.
Working Model & Research
- The Critical Care Unit currently runs a closed model for level 3 and selected level 2 patients.
- We are actively expanding our rota with the aim of having 8 WTE consultants which will allow us to fully close the ICU.
- Daytime cover (Monday to Friday) is currently staffed by five Consultant Anaesthetist/Intensivists and an Acute Physician/Intensivist.
- On-call commitment attracts a 5% pay supplement, and we are open to negotiating which specialty you provide on-call cover for based on your dual-training and expertise.
- Our resident doctors comprise 3 ACCPs, Clinical Development Fellows (CDFs), and both anaesthetic and medical rotational trainees.
- The Intensive Care unit participates in the Scottish Intensive Care Society Audit and has a track record of recruitment into multicentre trials.
- You will be supported by a part-time research and education nurse who assists with local audit, research, and service development.
Candidate Requirements
To be considered for this post, prospective candidates must meet the following criteria:
- Hold full registration with the GMC and a current Licence to Practice.
- Hold a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in Intensive Care Medicine (or dual certification) or be within 6 months of achieving this at the time of interview.
Life in Dumfries and Galloway We want to support staff to feel part of the community, both in their personal lives and at work.
- The region offers beautiful countryside from rugged cliffs and sandy beaches to forests, hills, and rolling plains.
- There is a wide range of activities on offer, with water sports, fishing, birdwatching, golf, mountain biking, or cycling along the network of rural roads.
- House prices are low, schools are good, and you are within 2 hours of Edinburgh, Glasgow, the Lake District, and Newcastle.
Find Out More We welcome informal contact from prospective candidates who wish to better understand the role. To have an informal discussion or to discuss potential job plan variations, please contact:
- Dr Stephen Wilson, Clinical Director for Anaesthesia and Intensive Care at Stephen.Wilson6@nhs.scot.
- Dr David Christie, Specialty Team Lead for Intensive Care at David.Christie@nhs.scot.
- Secretaries on 01387 241622.
INFORMATION FOR ALL CANDIDATES
To find out more about working with NHS Dumfries and Galloway and for an insight into our friendly, beautiful corner of Scotland please visit our Work With Us web pages https://www.nhsdg.co.uk/workwithus/
APPLICATION PROCESS - https://www.careers.nhs.scot/how-to-apply/application-process/
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- Staff and patients across Dumfries and Galloway enjoy free, unlimited parking at all our hospital sites.
DISCLOSURE SCOTLAND – Some of our posts may require you to undergo a criminal records check. Changes as of the 1 April 2025 to the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme membership now sees more roles requiring PVG that may not have needed this check in the past. If you are successful in this role you will be notified which level of check is required by the recruitment team. If you would like to read more information please visit: Disclosure levels - mygov.scot
EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY
NHS Dumfries and Galloway is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Dumfries and Galloway welcomes applicants from all sections of the community.
PUBLIC PROTECTION
Public protection practice encompasses the recognition and management of risk in order to prevent or reduce harm to children, (including unborn babies), young people and adults. All public protection legislation, and NHS Dumfries and Galloway (NHSDG) policies and guidance are founded on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the European Convention on Human Rights, and the principles of these Conventions underpin all NHSDG core business.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR INTERNATIONAL CANDIDATES
RIGHT TO WORK IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
NHS Dumfries and Galloway has a legal obligation to ensure that it does not employ any worker who has not been granted the relevant permission to work in the UK. This permission is without exception granted by the UK Border Agency. We are required to check the entitlement to work in the UK of all prospective employees, regardless of nationality or job category.
WORK VISA
If you require a Work Visa, please check to see if you and the vacancy you are applying for are eligible by visiting the Home Office website: https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa
It is ESSENTIAL that you have checked that you either already have an appropriate right to work in the UK or if you require a work visa that the post would be eligible to be sponsored BEFORE submitting your application form. We are unable to provide sponsorship for bank contracts.
UNITED KINGDOM REGISTRATION
NHS Dumfries & Galloway are unable to support OSCE Training for international nurses for vacancies.
Vacancies requiring professional registration require full United Kingdom registration with the appropriate council (eg NMC, HCPC, GMC, GDC etc).