Consultants in Critical Care Medicine (2 Posts)NHS

Job summary

Consultants in Critical Care (2 Posts)

Post 1: Consultant for Critical Care Medicine with Anaesthesia.

Post 2: Consultant for Critical Care Medicine with a special interest in Critical Care Outreach.

Rated overall as 'Good' in its 2019 CQC inspection and with a reputation as one of the safest Trusts in England, Whittington Health (WH), an Integrated Care Organisation in North London, is looking to recruit two Critical Care consultants. One with a joint appointment in anaesthesia and another as Critical Care stand alone with an interest in critical care outreach. PA split is within the job description for the roles.

Whittington Health NHS Trust is a main teaching hospital site for University College London Medical School. We are located at Archway, North London, close to both Highgate Village and Islington. The hospital serves a socio-economic community and culturally diverse population of some 500,000.

Full registration with the GMC and acceptance on the GMC Specialist Register are required and you should hold a CCT/CESR, or be within six months of obtaining it by the time of interview.

Important: In your application personal statement, you must clearly state which post you are applying for: Post 1 - Anaesthetics or Post 2 - Critical Care Outreach.

Interview date: 9th December 2026.

**Please note that as per our Trust processes you will be expected to make yourself available to attend a face to face interview if successfully short listed.**

Main duties of the job

Please see the full Job Description and the Person Specification for further details about the job role.

Job description

The post holder(s) will join a well-structured Critical Care department that is renowned for providing high quality training for resident staff and delivering a multi-professional service to patients with excellent clinical outcomes. The post holder will be required to contribute to the ongoing activities of the department, including undergraduate and postgraduate education and audit data collection. Candidates must have appropriate clinical training and expertise in the management of the critically ill adult to the standards specified by the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine. Extensive experience of organ support techniques is expected.

Please see the attached job description for full and further details including a sample job plan.

About us

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trustbelieves that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.