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Job summary

Main area
Intensive Care
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow
Contract
Fixed term: 6 months (6 -12 months extendable)
Hours
40 hours per week (Full Time)
Job ref
200-CW-712579-7575601-AC
Employer
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
St. George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Town
Tooting, London
Salary
£65,048 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
13/11/2025 23:59

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Senior Clinical Fellow in ICU - Echocardiography and Cardiogenic Shock

NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow

St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the regional specialist care provider for south west London, Surrey and beyond. The trust provides a high quality, comprehensive range of health services from leading edge tertiary and trauma care to community services.

With national and regional referrals added to our local 3.5m catchment, we serve a population of around 5m.

Co-located with St George’s, University of London and with both organisations now in a formal strategic alliance with King’s Health Partners, the trust delivers with its partners high quality research and education both of which contribute to the healthcare provision of tomorrow.

Acute and tertiary health services are delivered from over 1,000 beds across two sites, by around 8,000 staff.

St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a major acute hospital that offers very specialist care for complex injuries and illnesses, including trauma, neurology, cardiac care, renal transplantation, cancer care and stroke. It has a helipad which opened in spring 2014 and the work of its emergency department can currently be seen on Channel 4’s ‘24 Hours in A&E’ programme. The hospital also provides all the usual care you would expect from a local NHS district general hospital.

We also provide services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Roehampton. These include outpatient rapid diagnostic and treatment facilities, a minor injuries unit, limb fitting services and 70 elderly, intermediate care and rehabilitation beds.

As well as hospital services, we provide a wide variety of specialist, maternity and community services to children, adults, older people and people with learning disabilities. These services are provided from St John’s Therapy Centre, 11 health centres and clinics, schools, nursing homes and people’s own homes. The trust also manages the healthcare service at HMP Wandsworth.


 

Job overview

St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Clinical Fellow in Adult Critical Care with Echocardiography and Cardiogenic Shock

Minimum requirement: Registrar level or equivalent or post completion of core training in Anaesthesia, Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine Training, any of the Acute Care Common Stems or Surgery.

Full time appointments available for now, February 2026 and August 2026

Prior experience of the UK Healthcare System is desirable, and GMC registration is essential (unless applying for sponsorship).

All queries to be directed to Recruitment Lead: Dr David Smith: [email protected]

Due to the high volumes of applications we receive for certain posts, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the published closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications. After the closing date we strongly advise you check the email account which is registered. If you have not heard from us within four weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted.

Main duties of the job

St George’s Hospital is the primary teaching hospital in South-West London and provides all of the tertiary specialities.  The St George’s Adult Critical Care Directorate has 60 Critical Care beds across three Critical Care Units: General Intensive Care (GICU), Neuro Intensive Care (NICU) and Cardiothoracic Intensive Care (CTICU).  This is an extremely exciting time for the Directorate with the construction of a new 20 bed adult ICU currently underway. Successful candidates will work across one or more of these units during their period of employment at St George’s and where possible we will accommodate specific unit preferences.

We can accommodate experienced Trainees/Clinical Fellows looking to broaden their experience (including subspecialty experience in Cardiothoracic or Neuro Intensive Care) as well as more junior Clinical Fellows but with a minimum requirement of Registrar level or equivalent or post completion of Core Training in Anaesthesia, Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine Training, any of the Acute Care Common Stems or Surgery.

Duties and responsibilities will be commensurate with the individual candidate’s experience and are overseen by consultant intensivists at all times.  The experience gained will be beneficial to trainees wishing to pursue a wide variety of career aims.

Successful candidates for this post will be scored at interview and offered in turn, depending on availability their first choice of rotation

Working for our organisation

St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.  A Major Trauma Centre complete with Helipad St George’s featured for as the main hospital in the acclaimed Channel 4 documentary programme “24 Hours in A&E” for 23 seasons.

The trust also covers a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art Endoscopy Training Centre.

Our main site, St George’s Hospital in Tooting – one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals – is shared with St George’s, University of London, which trains Medical Students and carries out advanced Medical Research. The Hospital also hosts the St George’s, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of Healthcare Professionals from across the region.

As well as acute hospital services, we provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to attached job description for person specification.

This job description is not an exhaustive document but is a reflection of the current position. Details and emphasis may change in line with service needs after consultation with the post holder.

Person specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential criteria
  • Medical Degree
  • Full GMC registration
  • Registrar level or equivalent or post completion of core training in Anaesthesia, Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine Training, any of the Acute Care Common Stems or Surgery
Desirable criteria
  • MRCP/FRCA/MRCS/MRCEM
  • Previous NHS experience

Other

Essential criteria
  • Ability to manage priorities and work within a team
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills
Desirable criteria
  • Non-technical skills training
  • Management course
  • Previous publications
  • Clear career aim

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Knowledge appropriate to the role of senior doctor on intensive care
Desirable criteria
  • Postgraduate medical qualification

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Ability to communicate effectively in all situations
  • Skills appropriate for a senior doctor in intensive care including advanced airway management
  • ALS or CALS qualification within 4 years.
  • Prior echocardiography experience (2)
Desirable criteria
  • Completed QIP or audit in intensive care
  • Evidence of activity in research or teaching
  • Intensive care related course, conference
  • Experience of advanced airway management eg IAC (2)

Experience

Essential criteria
  • At least 6 months experience in intensive care medicine
  • Ability to take responsibility for assessment and clinical care of patients
  • Experience of NHS or similar healthcare system
Desirable criteria
  • Experience in cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, neurology or neurosurgery
  • Experience in anaesthesia, medicine or surgery
  • Previous experience on a senior tier ICU rota

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.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
David Smith
Job title
ICU Consultant
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0208 725 2558
Additional information

Candidates seeking more information can view the job description or contact via email:

Dr David Smith ([email protected])

Dr Eric Lindberg ([email protected])

Dr Ximena Watson ([email protected])

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