Job overview

You will join our multidisciplinary team within the Intensive Care Units at Salford Royal Hospital and Fairfield General Hospital of the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA).

The junior trainee medical staff compliment includes trainees from Foundation programmes, ACCS, Anaesthesia, Internal Medicine and Intensive Care Medicine. The job would afford you clinical exposure to a broad case mix including neuroscience, trauma, upper GI, intestinal failure and renal failure patients as well as a general ICU case mix.

We welcome applications from Senior Clinical Fellows and the post is open to intensive care physicians, anaesthetists, medical or emergency medicine doctors.

A minimum of 3 years intensive care medicine or anaesthesia experience is required, airway experience is essential.

- GMC Registered

- Medical Degree

Main duties of the job

Salford Royal Hospital ICU is a busy tertiary referral neuroscience and general adult ICU with capacity up to 40 beds over 5 Pods covering medicine (including respiratory and COVID), surgery, neurosciences, renal and many other tertiary services. With the addition of the new James Potter building, we expect our workload in specialist services such as trauma, neurosciences and surgery to continue to expand.

Fairfield Hospital is a busy district general hospital serving a large population in the towns of Bury and Rochdale. It has a busy Emergency Department and provides general medicine inpatient care with multiple specialist services including respiratory, cardiology and stroke. The intensive care unit provides resuscitation and stabilisation for level 3 patients as well as high dependency care for level 2.

We have a strong history of successfully supporting fellows through higher professional examinations and attainment of substantive posts. We would be supportive of overseas graduates in working towards a CESR in Intensive Care Medicine. There would be the opportunity to gain skills and accreditation in US including ECHO as well as mirroring special skills modules in Quality Improvement, Neurosciences, Education etc.

The ICU runs a fully accredited training programme which has an excellent local reputation. The successful candidates would be expected to participate in the programme and ongoing appraisal.

Working for our organisation

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. 

Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives. 

As a large NHS Trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team. 

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

Learn more about us in our Candidate Information Pack (opens in existing window)