Job Overview

Position: ACCOTS Duty Consultant (Adult Critical Care Co-ordination and Transfer Service)
Salary Scale: £113,565 to £150,569 per year (Hospital Medical and Dental Pay Scheme)
Location: Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Mindelsohn Way, Birmingham, West Midlands, B15 2TH (University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust)
Contract Type: Fixed Term (12 Month duration)
Working Pattern: Part-Time
Closing Date: 30th July 2026 (Note: Interviews took place on Thursday, 25th June 2026)
Reference Number: 15325

About the Role

Supportive Bridge Staffing Agency is partnering with University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB) NHS Foundation Trust to recruit a specialist ACCOTS Duty Consultant for the Adult Critical Care Co-ordination and Transfer Service.

This specialist consultant position combines advanced intensive care and anaesthetic expertise with operational decision-making, multidisciplinary leadership, governance, education, and quality improvement. Operating across the Midlands region, you will provide clinical leadership for the triage, coordination, and safe transfer of critically ill adult patients within a highly responsive, consultant-led critical care retrieval service.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

Clinical Leadership & Triage: Provide expert consultant-level clinical leadership for the triage, coordination, and decision support for all referrals to ACCOTS.
Transfer Delivery & Oversight: Independently assess, stabilise, and manage complex critically ill patients requiring urgent or time-critical transfer, while supervising transfer practitioners.
Multidisciplinary Collaboration: Work collaboratively with the Lead Transfer Nurse, Transfer Practitioners, and wider regional NHS organisations.
Education & Governance: Drive teaching, training, continuous professional development (CPD), clinical governance, audits, and quality improvement activities.
Exemplary Leadership: Demonstrate behaviors that support the strategy and core values of the ACCOTS service, reporting primarily to the Clinical Lead, Clinical Director, and ACCOTS General Manager.

Person Specification

Qualifications & Requirements (Essential)

Full GMC registration with a license to practise.
Specialist register entry in a relevant specialty (Intensive Care Medicine or Anaesthesia).
Demonstrable training, competency, and currency (ongoing regular exposure) in the delivery of in-hospital critical care.
Physical capability to work within the ambulance and transfer environment, including manual handling and prolonged transfer activity.

Benefits & Additional Information

Salary: £113,565 to £150,569 per annum (pro rata).
Environment: A dynamic, autonomous working environment handling complex, time-critical retrieval medicine with full backing for regional pathways and service development.
Inclusion: UHB is committed to an inclusive, values-driven workplace culture and provides reasonable adjustments for staff with disabilities or long-term health conditions.
Checks: Subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, overseas criminal record checks (where applicable), and eligibility for Skilled Worker sponsorship if required.