The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHSFT
Consultant in Critical Care
The closing date is 30 November 2026

Job summary
As a Consultant in Critical Care, you will join a collaborative team providing specialist care to critically ill patients across our organisation. You will work alongside Consultant colleagues to deliver a high-quality Critical Care service, participate in the on-call rota, and ensure patient care is delivered safely and effectively in line with GMC standards and best practice.

Working closely with Anaesthetic, Critical Care, Medical and Transfer Service colleagues, you will contribute to the delivery and continual development of services, supporting efficient use of resources and helping services operate within agreed budgets. The role requires flexibility to work within a nominally fixed timetable to meet the changing needs of patients and the service.

As a senior leader within the Directorate, you will promote effective multidisciplinary team working, undertake managerial responsibilities as required, supervise junior staff and contribute to appraisal and performance management processes. You will also ensure compliance with Trust and departmental policies and procedures.

Teaching and training are central to this role. You will support the education, supervision and career development of junior doctors and contribute to the training of medical students, nursing staff, paramedics and trainees from other specialties through partnerships with the University of Cambridge and the University of East Anglia.

Main duties of the job
Provide expert clinical leadership in the assessment, diagnosis and management of patients, ensuring timely decision-making, appropriate intervention and continuous review of care plans to deliver safe, effective and high-quality patient outcomes.

About us
There's never been a more exciting time to join TeamQEH. We're working on a once in a generation opportunity to build a new state-of-the-art hospital and we are also carrying out on one of the biggest pieces of digital transformation work we've ever undertaken.

Our new electronic patient record (EPR) will replace paper-based patient records and will lead to better, safer, joined-up care at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and beyond.

At The QEH we provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, North Cambs and South Lincs.

We recognise and reward our 4,000 staff and volunteers, priding ourselves on a community atmosphere and positive team spirit. We have approx. 530 beds across 33 wards and have newly built education and training facilities, a range of modern award-winning centres alongside a talented team of people ready to give you a warm welcome.

Details
Date posted: 10 November 2026
Pay scheme: Hospital medical and dental staff
Grade: Consultant
Salary: £113,565 to £150,569 a year Per annum Pro rata
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 426-542-26MP
Job locations: The Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Gayton Road, King's Lynn, PE30 4ET, United Kingdom

Job description
For further information on this vacancy please see the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification
Qualifications

• Essential: MBBS or equivalent medical qualification.
• Essential: CICM (previously FFICM) or eligible for ACICM
• Desirable: FRCA/FRCEM/FRCP or equivalent
• Desirable: Other professional qualification or higher degree e.g., in medical education, clinical research or management

Entry Criteria

• Essential: Full Registration and a licence to practise with the General Medical Council.
• Essential: Entry on GMC Specialist Register (CCT) or within six months of receipt of Certificate of Completion of specialist training at the time of interview.
• Essential: At least three years of experience working within the National Health Service of the UK.
• Essential: Wide experience in critical care and another acute specialty
• Essential: Experience of teaching trainees to a standard required by the RCoA (with evidence of suitable teaching / supervision qualification).

Professional Values & Behaviours, Skills and Knowledge

• Essential: Meets the criteria set out in the Specialist generic capabilities framework

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website. From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details
Employer name: The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHSFT
Address: The Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Gayton Road, King's Lynn, PE30 4ET, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.qehkl.nhs.uk

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Anaesthetics Service Manager, Dawn Hyam, dawn.hyam@qehkl.nhs.uk, 01553613613

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