Job summary
- Main area
- Critical Care
- Grade
- NHS Medical and Dental: Specialty Trainee
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (30% research part funded by the Health Innovation Partnership. https://readinghip.co.uk/)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week (Nights weekends)
- Job ref
- 193-MS1200UCG
- Employer
- Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Berkshire NHS Trust
- Town
- Reading
- Salary
- £49,909 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/05/2025 08:00
Employer heading
Clinical Research Fellow
NHS Medical and Dental: Specialty Trainee
Royal Berkshire Hospital are pleased to announce that following our CQC inspection we have been rated ‘Good’ with inspectors reporting that we have made significant improvements. The Trust’s overall rating has also improved to ‘good’. This is a great opportunity to join our clinical or non-clinical teams to create a positive and motivating environment within our trust. Come and join our team in this exciting time of change as we pride ourselves, our staff and our services on excellence.
At the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust we put our patients at the heart of every element of health and care that we provide. The Trust works together as a community to deliver its vision which is “Working together to provide outstanding care for our community.”
We are Compassionate in our thoughts, words and actions
We are Aspirational and have a true desire to be dynamic and to innovate
We are Resourceful and responsible in the way we work and live
We are Excellent in our development, fairness and sharing best practice
Amazing things happen at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust; delivered by amazing people so why don’t you come and join us. We offer a range of learning and development for all employees may you be clinical or non-clinical.
Job overview
This 6 to 12-month post offers candidates the opportunity to gain experience in Intensive Care Medicine (ICM) within a busy District General Hospital. Accreditation as the University Department of Critical Care Medicine was awarded in 2022 and in parallel with exceptional clinical experience, this post will also offer the exciting opportunity for dedicated clinical research time.
This job would be ideally suited to individuals who are committed to or strongly considering a career in ICM or a related acute speciality, and who are hoping to develop an ongoing interest in clinical research. It would also be appropriate for Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FICM) trainees seeking their special skills Stage 2 training. Some experience of ICM is strongly desirable.
Main duties of the job
Objectives of the fellowship would include:
- Participate in provision of ICM within the department at a resident doctor level
- Undertake the NIHR Associate Principal Investigator programme
- Support recruitment to and data collection for ongoing studies within the ICU
- Attend Urgent Care research committee meetings
- Be involved in the management and co-ordination of studies within the ICU
Working for our organisation
Our ICU has recently been rated ‘Outstanding’ for patient care by the CQC and the Trust overall has a ‘Good’ rating. The unit currently admits nearly 1000 level 2 and level 3 patients per year into 23 beds. The case mix is predominantly medical with trauma and surgical patients making up about 20%. Around 90% of our admissions are emergencies with the remainder being high risk surgical cases including, colorectal & urological procedures. There are about 60 paediatric admissions and stabilisations a year, the vast majority of which are retrieved via the Southampton and Oxford Retrieval Team (SORT), but some remain for the initial stages of their stabilisation and treatment. The Trust is a tertiary referral cancer centre and includes all specialties except neurosurgery, transplant, vascular and cardiothoracic surgery. The trust has a primary coronary angioplasty service with the fastest door to needle times in the country as well as the fastest door to needle times for stroke thrombolysis. There is an excellent interventional radiology department with 24-hour service provision and frequent close working with ICU. We also receive excellent support from our microbiology department with daily ward rounds on the ICU.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We are a recognised regional centre for training in ultrasound and echocardiography. We have close links with the cardiology department and Dr Elkington, consultant cardiologist, who is one of our local BSE supervisors. We also have close links with Dr Andrew Walden in acute medicine, who was involved in establishing point of care ultrasound within the hospital and also its national training process. Within the Department of Critical Care Medicine multiple consultants hold point of care ultrasounds skills ranging between full BSE accreditation, FUSIC heart, FUSIC lung and CACTUS (childrens point of care ultrasound). There are many opportunities for mentorship, education and participation in developing these skill sets. Both FAMUS, FUSIC and CACTUS courses are regularly run and are attended by delegates from around the country with excellent feedback.
The department has a firm education and teaching programme with weekly, dedicated, bleep-free sessions for resident doctors to attend. These are overseen by multiple senior educators who also hold positions and undertake regular teaching within the University of Reading. We have high fidelity simulation facilities within the hospital and also have a dedicated facility within the ICU to provide in-situ simulations for MDT training in multiple types of clinical, human factors and patient safety aspects of ICM.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- GMC registration
Desirable criteria
- MCEM / MRCP / FRCA or equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
- Provider status in one of the following: ALS, ATLS, or APLS
Desirable criteria
- Post registration experience of working in other specialties relevant to emergency medicine, intensive care medicine, acute medicine or anaesthesia
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Joshua Moorhouse
- Job title
- ICM / Anaesthetics Consultant
- Email address
- [email protected]
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