Senior Clinical Fellow in Critical Care (ST3+ equivalent)

Clinical: The post holder will take part in a full shift rota, along with other trainees, which provides 24-hour care for patients including weekends and night shifts. This includes:

1. Immediate responsibility for care of up to 22 critical care patients
2. Responsible for the admission and discharge of patients
3. Liaising with other departments and specialties as appropriate
4. Maintaining inpatient records
5. Ordering routine and emergency investigations and receiving and reviewing their results
6. Managing routine and unexpected problems on the critical care unit as they arise
7. Reviewing and admitting new admissions and referrals from both the emergency department and wards
8. Transfer of patients as appropriate
9. Compliance with trust and departmental protocols and guidelines

As the post holder will be responsible for the assessment and management of critically ill patients with indirect supervision, significant prior experience in intensive care medicine is essential, including advanced airway skills and excellent written and spoken English.

Administrative: Candidates must possess full GMC registration with a license to practice at the time of application. Satisfactory completion of at least 2 years prior postgraduate training in ICM/anaesthesia/general medicine, to include at least 3 months ICM is essential.

Research: We have several national and international trials that we run and recruit to with opportunities for associate PI roles, involvement with the journal club, and development of the role as interested.

Medical Education: The departments have a strong teaching commitment to junior doctors and medical students. We have a regular weekly teaching program and access to simulation and are developing an in-situ simulation program. The post holder will work closely with our education leads to develop the department.

Clinical Interest Areas: Anaesthesia, maternal medicine, burns, major surgery, transplant, neuro and trauma critical care, recovery after critical illness. The role will primarily be based in critical care with the option to develop specialist interest skills and be supervised by specialists in the above areas to develop clinical and non-clinical skills managing these patient groups. Opportunities for quality improvement projects and dedicated time in the subspecialty area.

Ultrasound (FUSIC mentors): Critical care has a number of FUSIC mentors allowing trainees to undertake formal echo/chest/vascular ultrasound training.