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From the employer's advert, checked 26 October 2026.
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors as “Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust” (Skilled Worker). Register checked 23 October 2026.
About the job
Job summary
Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine
We would like to welcome you to join our team in offering superb patient care. We have one replacement post due to retirement that we believe offers an excellent work-life balance in a sustainable way. We want you to enjoy working with us - not just now, but over the coming decades too.
Our team of 14 dynamic and enthusiastic consultants are pioneering an exciting transformation strategy in the Critical Care Department at Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust. This post is a replacement substantive post, but may be offered as a fixed term locum position for up to 12 months.
Our department treats over 1600 patients a year across two sites in South London with a wide case-mix of general medical and surgical admissions. We house a number of subspecialties in our Trust including ENT, nephrology, urology, bariatrics, complex orthopaedics, interventional cardiology, high-risk obstetrics and numerous cancer specialists. Around 40% of our patients are ventilated at any one time, and around 3% of these are retrieved by tertiary ECMO services. We provide emergency renal replacement therapy to around 60% of our admissions. Our ICNARC mortality and other outcomes are comparable to similar units.
Main duties of the job
We offer annualised contracts to consultant intensivists at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust. These posts are open to full-time intensivists. However, where vacanct sessions are available in other specialties, we will allow some flexibility to accommodate those who wish to maintain clinical sessions in a base specialty (e.g. anaesthesia, acute medicine, emergency medicine, respiratory medicine and nephrology).
These posts attract 10 programmed activities (PAs) and are offered as a split of 7.5 direct clinical care (DCC) and up to 2.5 supporting professional activities (SPA). SPA allocation is reviewed annually to ensure appropriate consultant skill development and career progression, whilst meeting the needs of the service.
All candidates must be eligible for full GMC registration and either already be on the Specialist Register or be within six months (of interview date) of receiving CCT/CESR, please provide supporting evidence. Please see the person specification listed.
Job responsibilities
For full details of the main responsibilities and person specification, please request a copy of the full job description from the main contact listed below.
About the employer
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream
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