Senior Clinical Fellow / Echo / Simulation Fellowship | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

This post is to provide resident cover and experience at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. Initially, posts will be offered for 6 months but can be extended by agreement to 12 months or longer depending on satisfactory performance and vacancies. We would like to offer rotations to other sites as vacancies allow.

Exceptional candidates may be offered the specialist fellowship positions (neuro, teaching/sim, & echocardiography) - such applicants will be asked to indicate which post they are applying for. In this case, an average of 20-40% will be dedicated to teaching/simulation, echocardiography activities and/or service development. Candidates who successfully complete their first year will be considered for entry into the Portfolio Pathway in Intensive Care Medicine within Imperial College, as part of their career progression, subject to availability of posts.

The ICU senior clinical fellow would be expected to join the registrar grade tier of doctors who provide full on-call cover for the units including at weekends and nights. Airway experience is essential.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• When on duty for ICU, the resident will review and manage patients on the ICU under the supervision of the consultants.
• They will form part of our multidisciplinary team caring for critically ill patients, performing procedures and investigations, liaising with referring teams, keeping relatives updated and acting as the first point of call for the ICU nursing staff.
• All junior grades work in close cooperation with the consultants.
• The ICM resident is also expected to take an active role in supervision and training of medical students and junior doctors who are frequently attached to the ICU.

Outline Timetable:

• A minimum of twice daily multidisciplinary consultant ward rounds on each site, weekly MDTs.
• Daily afternoon meeting or ward round with a consultant or SpR in Infectious Diseases/Microbiology.
• Shifts vary in length from 9.5 to 13 hours. The work pattern amounts to an average of less than 48 hours per week (including weekends) for all grades.

The Echo/Simulation Fellow posts will offer a combination of clinical work and dedicated teaching, simulation, or echocardiography activities. The Echo Fellow will be supported to achieve BSE Level 1 accreditation. Each postholder will also be expected to complete a quality improvement project relevant to their fellowship.

At Imperial College Healthcare, you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career. Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, and season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

The statutory requirement to be fully Covid-19 vaccinated as a condition of employment from April 2022 is subject to legislative review. At Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, we strongly encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients and service users and as part of our pre-employment checks and risk assessments, we will ask all candidates to confirm whether or not they have been fully vaccinated or have a medical exemption.

As part of our continued response to Covid-19, we are still conducting the majority of our interviews virtually.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part-time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Title of Post: Senior Clinical Fellow / Echo/SIM Fellow in Intensive Care Medicine

Main site of activity: Charing Cross Hospital

Responsible to: Dr Simon Ashworth – Clinical Director

Genesis of post: new or replacement posts.

On Call: Full shift or partial shift pattern with 1 A banding. Frequency of night shifts not expected to be more than 1 night in 6.

Exceptional candidates may be offered the specialist fellowship positions (neuro, teaching/sim, echo & research) and applicants are asked to indicate which post they are applying for. The post can either be taken as a stand-alone role or as an Out of Programme Experience (OOPE) from a specialist training programme. Prior agreement must be sought with the relevant Specialty Training Committee (STC) and the deanery. Full registration with the General Medical Council is required at the time of post commencement. Successful candidates at interview may be considered for GMC sponsorship. Previous ICU/anaesthetics experience (> 12 months) & possession of a postgraduate examination are both essential and candidates without will be excluded at longlisting.