Senior Clinical Fellow in Paediatric Critical Care ST3 – ST8

Contract: Fixed term 12 months. Hours: Full time - 48 hours per week. Salary: £73,992 per annum, including high cost area. Salary period: Yearly. Closing date: 12/02/2026 23:59.

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1.8 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.

We encourage all our staff to have a healthy work/life balance. In doing so, you can apply for flexible working from the beginning of your employment. We offer a range of options which are designed to suit different circumstances and priorities in line with service requirements.

These are replacement posts. The remit of the postholder(s) will be to work within the multidisciplinary team providing and further developing care for patients within the service. In addition, the individual will be required to play an active role in the general workload of the Care Group while having a significant commitment to teaching and training of junior staff. It is envisaged that the appointee will contribute to the development and delivery of aspects of these services depending upon their interests and experience.

Main duties of the job

• Develop competence in multidisciplinary management of paediatric intensive and high dependency care. Manage the critically unwell child with liver disease, head injury, multi-trauma, paediatric surgery, neurosurgery & general paediatric critical care problems.
• Achieve skills in stabilisation of the critically sick or injured child, including safe intrafacility transfer.
• Assess potential critical care patients elsewhere in the hospital.
• Manage telephone referrals, giving accurate advice, liaising with specialist teams as appropriate.
• Attain knowledge & experience of different ventilation strategies (including high frequency oscillation), the use of inotropes & renal replacement therapies.
• Attain experience in practical procedures including intubation, central line insertion.
• Attain a high level of understanding for systems within NHS and improve communication skills through participation in multidisciplinary meetings and daily interactions with members of multidisciplinary teams.
• Jointly provide middle grade cover to the Critical Care Centre (PICU and PHDU) with 12 other middle grade doctors (13 in total).

Working for our organisation

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. The Trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. Being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King’s to another level. We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The clinical fellows will be responsible for the day to day management of the unit. There are two ward rounds per day: 08:30 for teaching and major management decisions and a business ward round at 16:00 – 16:30. During this post there will be opportunities for the post holder to attend sessions in theatre for practice in intubation and line insertion. Time is allocated within the weekly rota for administration (including discharge summaries) and research. The post holder is expected to supervise the junior colleagues for practical procedures and teach the principles of ITU care.

Person specification

• Qualifications: Registerable medical qualification. [MRCPCH] or equivalent. Other higher degree or diploma (e.g., MD).
• Registration: Full registration with GMC/GDC with License to Practice.
• Training and Experience: Wide experience in all aspects of PICU, culminating in award of CCT or equivalent. Specialist training in PICU.
• Research: Experience of conducting or supporting clinical research. Relevant research experience in one or more aspects of PICU. Publication of relevant review articles or case reports.
• Administration: Experience in day to day organisation of PICU services in a busy Teaching Hospital. Familiar with current structure of Health Service and conversant with recent initiatives and changes.
• Audit & quality improvement: Understanding of principles of medical audit and quality improvement. Demonstrate ability to lead change.

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