About this role
Job summary
The ACCOTS Duty Consultant role is a specialist consultant position within the Adult Critical Care Co-ordination and Transfer Service, responsible for the triage, coordination, clinical leadership, and delivery of safe transfer of critically ill adult patients across the Midlands region. The post combines advanced intensive care and anaesthetic expertise with operational decision-making, multidisciplinary leadership, governance, education, and quality improvement within a highly responsive regional transfer service.
The role offers the opportunity to work in a dedicated, consultant-led critical care transfer and retrieval service operating across multiple NHS organisations. It provides a dynamic and autonomous working environment with exposure to complex, time-critical retrieval medicine, alongside opportunities to contribute to regional pathways, service development, governance, and education within an expert multidisciplinary team.
Interviews are set to take place on Thursday 25th June 2026.
Main duties of the job
The ACCOTS Duty Consultant is expected to provide consultant-level clinical leadership for the triage, coordination, and transfer of critically ill adult patients across the Midlands region. The role requires the ability to independently assess, stabilise, and manage complex patients requiring urgent or time-critical transfer, while ensuring safe, effective, and compassionate care throughout the patient journey. The postholder will work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, provide operational decision support, supervise transfer practitioners, and contribute to governance, education, audit, and quality improvement activities.
Essential skills and qualities include extensive experience in Intensive Care Medicine and/or Anaesthesia, excellent clinical decision-making, and the ability to work effectively under pressure in unpredictable environments. Strong leadership, communication, teamwork, and organisational skills are essential, alongside the ability to prioritise workload and make autonomous decisions. The role requires highly developed non-technical skills, professionalism, resilience, adaptability, and a commitment to patient safety and continuous improvement. The postholder must also be physically capable of working within the ambulance and transfer environment, including manual handling and prolonged transfer activity.
About us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Job description Job responsibilities
The successful applicant will work alongside the Lead Transfer Nurse and Transfer Practitioners to deliver high quality critical care transfers. As a Duty Consultant you will be responsible for ensuring the following elements;-
*Triage, Co-ordination and decision support for all referrals to ACCOTS.
*Supervision and delivery of clinical care,
*Teaching, training and continued professional development,
*Governance and quality Improvement,
*Exemplary leadership behaviour that supports ACCOTS, values and Strategy.
This role will report into the Clinical Lead and Clinical Director primarily as well as the ACCOTS General Manager.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
*Full GMC registration with license to practise. *Specialist register entry in a relevant specialty (Intensive Care Medicine, Anaesthesia). Demonstrable training, competency and currency (ongoing regular exposure) to the delivery of in-hospital critical care
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 (Opens in a new tab).
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 (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Address Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Mindelsohn Way
Birmingham
West Midlands
B15 2TH
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/jobs.htm (Opens in a new tab)