Job summary
- Main area
- Intensive Care Medicine
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Trainee ST6 – ST8
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Trainee fellow post)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week (on-call, nights and weekends)
- Job ref
- 193-MS1198UCG
- Employer
- Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Berkshire Hospital
- Town
- Reading
- Salary
- £70,425 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/05/2025 08:00
Employer heading
Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia Clinical Fellow
NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Trainee ST6 – ST8
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 post offers candidates 6 or 12 months the opportunity to gain experience in Intensive Care medicine within a busy district general hospital. In parallel to this there is also dedicated time for gaining experience, mentorship and accreditation within point of care ultrasound.
This job would be ideally suited to individuals who are committed to or investigating a career in Intensive Care Medicine (ICM) or wider acute care specialities. Some experience in ICM is strongly desirable.
The clinical training programme is outcomes based and follows the curriculum developed by the Faculty of Intensive care medicine (FICM). This is described in detail on the FICM’s documents on outcome-based training and assessment (http://www.ficm.ac.uk).
Main duties of the job
The prospective candidate would work 70% of their time on the ICM rota and 30% of their time training in Ultrasound and Echocardiography. The candidate would aim to accredit in FUSIC heart and FUSIC lung whilst also having the opportunity to develop other more advanced Echocardiography and Ultrasound skills. Specifically the option of working towards the full British Society of Echocardiography (BSE) echo accreditation could be facilitated. There is also the option of gaining competence in venous sonography and abdominal ultrasound scanning. There would also be the opportunity to undertake teaching sessions with Dr Andrew Walden who is an acute medic within the trust but was instrumental in bringing point of care ultrasound to the hospital and involved in the development of the national training guidelines.
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 patients a year. 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, colo-rectal & urological procedures
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Objectives of the fellowship would include:
- Participate in provision of ICM within the department and hospital at a resident doctor level
- Work towards gaining FUSIC heart accreditation
- Work towards gaining FUSIC lung accreditation
- Develop advanced echocardiography/ultrasound skills according to prior experience, including BSE accreditation if appropriate
- Participate in ultrasound based research programmes
- Participate in POCUS club
There will also be the opportunity to collaborate with teaching and education fellows to provide ultrasound as part of Intensive Care Medicine at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- GMC registration MB ChB, MBBS or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- MCEM / MRCP / FRCA or equivalent. Educational diploma or equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
- Provider status in one of the following: ALS, ATLS, or APLS Experience of working in the NHS
Desirable criteria
- Post registration experience of working in other specialties relevant to emergency medicine, intensive care medicine, acute medicine or anaesthesia Minimum of four months experience in Intensive Care medicine
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
- Consultant in Critical Care Medicine
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Dr Jodie Smythe
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