Senior Clinical Fellow in Critical Care and Medicine
Applications are invited for a Senior Clinical Fellow in Critical Care and Medicine at the Whittington Hospital NHS Trust, to start on 6th August.
This post is for 6 months, but can be longer by mutual agreement, andis suited to applicantsundertaking their alternative pathway qualification in critical care where the medicinecomponent is required.
Duties involve day‑to‑day management of patients on our 11 bedded adult Critical Care Unit with about 700 admissions a year, as well as supporting the Critical Care Outreach service, on a full shift rota. The Unit is fully covered by Consultant Intensivists in a dedicated rota.
There is a weekly ITU teaching program, weekly anaesthetic teaching sessions and many other training opportunities are available within the Trust.
The Whittington Hospital is a busy, friendly teaching hospital situated in North Central London. The Emergency Department sees 85,000 new patients per year who come from diverse backgrounds with a broad range of clinical problems.
Please note, this post may close early if sufficient applications are received.
Main duties of the job
- Assessment & clinical management of critically ill patients both within the ICU and across the wider hospital who are referred for assessment, admission and on‑going care. This includes prompt review of referrals from ED or the ward teams at night as the Critical Care Outreach nurse service only operates 8am‑8pm 7 days a week
- Timely discussion with senior supervising colleagues regarding appropriateness of admission, unexpected deterioration and suitability for discharge.
Familiarity and competence at common procedures is expected (vascular access, chest drain insertion etc) but supervised training is also given for other procedures e.g.
percutaneous tracheostomy. Airway support is provided by the on‑call Anaesthetics team for ICU doctors without anaesthesia or airway skills.
- Direction, guidance, supervision & teaching of more junior ICU trainees including for practical procedures.
- Organisation of appropriately detailed patient hand‑over both at shift changes including current clinical condition of patients under review outside of the ICU.
- Written and verbal handover to ward team for patients stepping down to ward care.
- Updating of clinical records, electronic & paper data & audit systems including the ICU activity database (Wardwatcher).
- Communication with families & relatives of patients to update them on patient progress.
About us
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trustbelieves that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Job responsibilities
For a detailed overview of the main duties and responsibilities of the post please refer to the attached Job Description.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
- Registered medical practitioner
- Valid Registration with the General Medical Council and current licence to practice
- Provider status at ALS
- Postgraduate medical qualification- completed FRCA, MRCP or MCEM
- Simulation faculty course or willingness to undertake
- Provider status at ATLS or APLS
- Formal ECHO accreditation
Experience and knowledge
- Experience in a critical care medicine role at SPR/SCF level or above for at least 1 year in NHS environment
- Evidence of educational achievement and progression
- Willingness to work in different clinical environments to facilitate in‑situ sim
- Excellent communication skills with patients, colleagues, manager and other staff
- Ability to take full responsibility for initial assessment and management of critically ill patients
- Experience of and commitment to teaching undergraduate and postgraduate medical staff
- Experience of audit management
- Experience of teaching basic clinical skills to undergraduates
- Teaching of non‑medical health professionals.
Skills and Abilities
- Experience of teaching
- Good team working abilities
- Ability to organise and manage own workload efficiently
- Empathetic and sensitive approach to patient needs
- Approachable and effective Multi‑disciplinary team member with excellent interpersonal skills
- Team loyalty
- Positive approach to lessons learned
- Confident approach without being arrogant
- Willingness to support and deliver sessions describing current research activity to medical, nursing and AHP staff
Personal Attributes
- Ability to communicate with staff at all levels
- Ability to work as a member of the team
- Demonstrated commitment to clinical education
- Time management ability
- Aware of work learning needs
- Self‑motivated
- Evidence of innovation
Other Requirements
- Must be willing to work flexibly according to teaching workload
- Ability to work at different sites within the organisation
- Demonstrate evidence of lifelong learning
- Reflective approach to personal development with an ability to acknowledge and effectively manage poor performance
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.
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Applications are invited for a Senior Clinical Fellow in Critical Care and Medicine at the Whittington Hospital NHS Trust, to start on 6th August.
This post is for 6 months, but can be longer by mutual agreement, andis suited to applicantsundertaking their alternative pathway qualification in critical care where the medicinecomponent is required.
Duties involve day‑to‑day management of patients on our 11 bedded adult Critical Care Unit with about 700 admissions a year, as well as supporting the Critical Care Outreach service, on a full shift rota. The Unit is fully covered by Consultant Intensivists in a dedicated rota.
There is a weekly ITU teaching program, weekly anaesthetic teaching sessions and many other training opportunities are available within the Trust.
The Whittington Hospital is a busy, friendly teaching hospital situated in North Central London. The Emergency Department sees 85,000 new patients per year who come from diverse backgrounds with a broad range of clinical problems.
Please note, this post may close early if sufficient applications are received.
Main duties of the job
- Assessment & clinical management of critically ill patients both within the ICU and across the wider hospital who are referred for assessment, admission and on‑going care. This includes prompt review of referrals from ED or the ward teams at night as the Critical Care Outreach nurse service only operates 8am‑8pm 7 days a week
- Timely discussion with senior supervising colleagues regarding appropriateness of admission, unexpected deterioration and suitability for discharge.
Familiarity and competence at common procedures is expected (vascular access, chest drain insertion etc) but supervised training is also given for other procedures e.g.
percutaneous tracheostomy. Airway support is provided by the on‑call Anaesthetics team for ICU doctors without anaesthesia or airway skills.
- Direction, guidance, supervision & teaching of more junior ICU trainees including for practical procedures.
- Organisation of appropriately detailed patient hand‑over both at shift changes including current clinical condition of patients under review outside of the ICU.
- Written and verbal handover to ward team for patients stepping down to ward care.
- Updating of clinical records, electronic & paper data & audit systems including the ICU activity database (Wardwatcher).
- Communication with families & relatives of patients to update them on patient progress.
About us
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trustbelieves that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Job responsibilities
For a detailed overview of the main duties and responsibilities of the post please refer to the attached Job Description.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
- Registered medical practitioner
- Valid Registration with the General Medical Council and current licence to practice
- Provider status at ALS
- Postgraduate medical qualification- completed FRCA, MRCP or MCEM
- Simulation faculty course or willingness to undertake
- Provider status at ATLS or APLS
- Formal ECHO accreditation
Experience and knowledge
- Experience in a critical care medicine role at SPR/SCF level or above for at least 1 year in NHS environment
- Evidence of educational achievement and progression
- Willingness to work in different clinical environments to facilitate in‑situ sim
- Excellent communication skills with patients, colleagues, manager and other staff
- Ability to take full responsibility for initial assessment and management of critically ill patients
- Experience of and commitment to teaching undergraduate and postgraduate medical staff
- Experience of audit management
- Experience of teaching basic clinical skills to undergraduates
- Teaching of non‑medical health professionals.
Skills and Abilities
- Experience of teaching
- Good team working abilities
- Ability to organise and manage own workload efficiently
- Empathetic and sensitive approach to patient needs
- Approachable and effective Multi‑disciplinary team member with excellent interpersonal skills
- Team loyalty
- Positive approach to lessons learned
- Confident approach without being arrogant
- Willingness to support and deliver sessions describing current research activity to medical, nursing and AHP staff
Personal Attributes
- Ability to communicate with staff at all levels
- Ability to work as a member of the team
- Demonstrated commitment to clinical education
- Time management ability
- Aware of work learning needs
- Self‑motivated
- Evidence of innovation
Other Requirements
- Must be willing to work flexibly according to teaching workload
- Ability to work at different sites within the organisation
- Demonstrate evidence of lifelong learning
- Reflective approach to personal development with an ability to acknowledge and effectively manage poor performance
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.
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