Clinical Fellow in Adult Critical Care & Complementary Specialty

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

CLINICAL FELLOW IN CRITICAL CARE (whole-time/part time, 1 year). The postholder may have been trained in any specialty but must have previous experience of adult critical care medicine (CCM), and be at least at the level of intermediate level training as previously defined by the Faculty of Intensive Intensive Care Medicine (UK), or equivalent.

This post was created for and by Professor Timothy W Evans with Dr Neil Soni (Chelsea & Westminster hospital) in the 1990's, at a time when the importance of combining anaesthetic skills with medicine during CCM training was beginning to be recognised, but was not easily achieved within a formal training structure. This one-year fellowship post aimed to support outstanding candidates in this regard. Many established Intensive care consultants across the UK have benefitted from this unique experience. To date, the fellowship continues to enable:

- Physician (or Surgeon) Intensivists obtain 6 months of supervised anaesthetic skills, or
- Anaesthetic Intensivists to obtain 6 months of acute medicine

This complementary training occurs at the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, together with 6 months of advanced cardiorespiratory CCM at the Royal Brompton.

Main duties of the job

To be part of the critical care team, based on the ICUs but also contributing to the hospital outreach and cardiac arrest teams, when required.

To participate in medical audit and Quality Improvement Projects (QIPs)

To participate in the education and supervision of medical trainees and other staff.

About us

The intensive care units for adults are split across 2 levels; The 18 bedded Adult Intensive Care Unit (AICU) on level 3, and the 20 bedded Elizabeth Intensive Care Unit (EICU) on level 5. The units admit approximately 1200 patients per year with a variety of cardiological and respiratory diseases. The multidisciplinary ICU teams cares for patients utilising a wide range of organ support therapies, including extracorporeal cardiovascular and respiratory support. post-operative cardiac care is undertaken in a separate dedicated cardiac recovery unit (CRU) and high dependency unit (EICU/EHDU). The two intensive care unit's case-mix includes complex post operative cardiac, thoracic and vascular surgery, Grown Up Congenital Heart disease and various mechanical assist devices. The AICU provides also a severe acute respiratory failure referral service for the South-West of England and is commissioned as one of 5 national ECMO centres.

Each unit has at least 2 consultants on service Monday to Friday and additional consultant

The ICUs have an active teaching programme covering general and specialist critical care and can facilitate targeted teaching around relevant postgraduate

The unit teaches and trains undergraduate students from Imperial College London and has numerous honorary international visiting fellows. The postholder would be expected to support these teaching activities.

Date posted

16 May 2023

Pay scheme

Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade

Doctor - other

Salary

£51,017 a year Per Annum

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

196-RBH-CF-AICU-TIMOTHY

Job locations

Royal Brompton Hospital

Sydney Street

London

SW3 6NP

Job description

Job responsibilities

To be part of the critical care team, based on the ICUs but also contributing to the hospital outreach and cardiac arrest teams, when required.

To participate in medical audit and Quality Improvement Projects (QIPs)

To participate in the education and supervision of medical trainees and other staff.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To be part of the critical care team, based on the ICUs but also contributing to the hospital outreach and cardiac arrest teams, when required.

To participate in medical audit and Quality Improvement Projects (QIPs)

To participate in the education and supervision of medical trainees and other staff.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

MB BS or equivalent
MRCP, FRCA, FRCS or equivalent
GMC registration
ALS (or equivalent)

Experience

Essential

Critical care (minimum intermediate level / FICM stage 2)

Desirable

Cardiothoracic Critical Care

Skills, Knowledge and Abilities

Essential

Knowledge of CCM
Pathophysiology of CCM
Teaching Skills
Ability to Undertake Research
Participation in Clinical Audit/QIP
Communication Skills

Other

Essential

Commitment to continuing Medical Education & Professional Development

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

MB BS or equivalent
MRCP, FRCA, FRCS or equivalent
GMC registration
ALS (or equivalent)

Experience

Essential

Critical care (minimum intermediate level / FICM stage 2)

Desirable

Cardiothoracic Critical Care

Skills, Knowledge and Abilities

Essential

Knowledge of CCM
Pathophysiology of CCM
Teaching Skills
Ability to Undertake Research
Participation in Clinical Audit/QIP
Communication Skills

Other

Essential

Commitment to continuing Medical Education & Professional Development

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

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