ACCOTS Duty Consultant

• Main duties and responsibilities
• Triage, coordination, decision support
• Act professionally at all times when interacting with service users.
• Receive referrals, provide clinical and logistical advice where required, and allocate appropriate transfer resource or signpost alternatives when out of scope.
• Follow service Standard Operating Procedures around referral handling and deployment and specialist clinical pathways.
• Manage the tasking of clinical transfer teams.
• Maintain high quality clinical records.
• Undertake and engage with induction and maintenance training associated with referral handling, triage and decision support.

Supervision and delivery of clinical care

• Provide clinical leadership and support to the multidisciplinary transfer team.
• Work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary transfer team and service users to develop and implement treatment plans for patients.
• Ensure service and regional Standard Operating Procedures pertaining to clinical pathways, conditions and service operations are followed.
• Ensure the safe, timely and efficient transfer of critically ill patients within the ACCTS operating region.
• Recognise that shifts are unpredictable and that referrals and transfers may extend beyond the duty period.

Teaching, training and continued professional development

• Engage with day-to-day service education and training programme.
• Support the induction and ongoing development of multidisciplinary transfer team members.
• Contribute to service training days, as required.
• Maintain personal competency and currency in the delivery of adult critical care.

Governance and quality improvement

• Maintain personal currency in the systems, processes, Standard Operating Procedures and policies of the ACCTS.
• Assist in the development and maintenance of Standard Operating Procedures.
• Attend and present cases at team Clinical Governance days.
• Contribute to service quality improvement, audit and research programmes.

Leadership

Be an ambassador for the ACCTS whilst handling referrals, interacting with service users and delivering clinical care.

Demonstrate excellent non-technical skills, model the service values and behave in a professional manner at all times.