Senior Clinical Fellow in Intensive Care (with special interest)

Applications are invited for a Senior Clinical Fellow in Intensive Care (with a special interest) at the Whittington Hospital NHS Trust, to start ASAP. Time and support will be allocated to either a special interest in echocardiography or ICU rehabilitation and follow up. This post is for 6 months, but can be longer by mutual agreement, and would suit candidates with some previous ICU experience and Acute Specialty experience.

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.

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 eg 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. Communication with families & relatives of patients to update them on patient progress.

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 Trust believes 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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jamie Goddin, Job title: Consultant and Clinical Lead for ITU, Email address: james.goddin@nhs.net, Telephone number: 020 7288 3140