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Job summary

Main area
Critical Care and Anaesthetics
Grade
MT04/MT05
Contract
6 months (Fixed term)
Hours
Part time - 20 hours per week (Per annum (pro rata))
Job ref
220-S&C-MED-7193578
Employer
Whittington Health NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Whittington Health NHS Trust
Town
London
Salary
£61,825 - £70,452 Per Annum (pro rata)
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
25/06/2025 23:59

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Senior Clinical Fellow in Critical Care & Anesthetics

MT04/MT05

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Job overview

Applications are invited for a Senior Clinical Fellow post in the Intensive Care and Anesthetics at the Whittington Hospital NHS Trust, to start asap or at latest August 2025. Evenings, nights and weekend shifts will be spent working in critical care. Day time shifts will be spent working in the anaesthetic department.

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. This job will be 0.5 WTE to complement a similar post which is currently 0.5WTE

Duties involve day-to-day management of patients on our 12 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.

Main duties of the job

  •  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 (Wardwatcher)
  • Communication with families & relatives of patients to update them on patient progress

Working for our organisation

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

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a detailed overview of the main duties and responsibilities of the post please refer to the attached Job Description.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered medical practitioner
  • Valid Registration with the General Medical Council and current licence to practice
  • Provider status at ALS
Desirable criteria
  • Postgraduate medical qualification
  • Provider status at ATLS or APLS

Experience and knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of educational achievement and progression
  • Willingness to work in different clinical environments to facilitate in-situ sim
  • Experience in a critical care medicine role for at least 1 year in NHS (or similar ) environment
  • Ability to take full responsibility for initial assessment and management of critically ill patients
  • Experience of and commitment to teaching undergraduate and postgraduate medical staff
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of audit management
  • Experience of teaching basic clinical skills to undergraduates
  • Teaching of non-medical health professionals

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Experience of teaching
  • Good communication skills
  • Good team working abilities
  • Empathetic and sensitive approach to patient needs
Desirable criteria
  • Willingness to support and deliver sessions describing current research activity to medical, nursing and AHP staff
  • Presentation skills
  • IT skills

Personal Attributes

Essential criteria
  • Ability to communicate with staff at all levels
  • Demonstrated commitment to clinical education
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of innovation

Other requirements

Essential criteria
  • Must be willing to work flexibly according to research workload
  • Demonstrate evidence of lifelong learning
Desirable criteria
  • Continued professional/personal development

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in a good time to avoid disappointment .

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Dr Sarah Gillis
Job title
Consultant and Clinical Lead for ITU
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
020 7288 3140

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Address
Whittington Health NHS Trust
Magdala Avenue
London
N19 5NF
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