Junior Clinical Fellow in Critical Care

Whittington Hospital NHS Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare trust in the UK is seeking a Junior Clinical Fellow in critical care to start on February 4, 2026. The role involves managing critically ill patients, teaching junior trainees, and participation in a weekly ITU teaching program. Candidates should have GMC registration, an MBBS or equivalent, and prior anaesthetic or critical care experience. This is a fixed-term position with excellent training opportunities.

Benefits

Exposure to Critical Care

Named Clinical Supervisor

Study leave and associated expenses

Qualifications

• Enthusiastic with good written English.
• Completed a recognised 2-year foundation training programme.
• Previous anaesthetic or critical care experience.

Responsibilities

• Assessment & clinical management of critically ill patients.
• Timely discussion with supervising colleagues regarding patient conditions.
• Familiarity with common procedures with supervised training available.
• Supervision and teaching of more junior ICU trainees.
• Organising detailed patient handovers.
• Updating clinical records and audit systems.
• Communication with patients' families about patient progress.

Skills

Good communicator with excellent spoken English

Ability to work as part of a team

Enthusiastic

Education

Full registration with GMC at the time of appointment

MBBS or Equivalent

ALS

Primary FRCA or part 1 MRCP

APLS or ATLS

Job description

The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust is seeking to appoint a Junior Clinical Fellow in critical care. They would commence 4th February 2026 (Subject to pre-employment checks being completed) and finish on 4th August 2026 . This posts is not recognised for training by the Postgraduate Dean however the successful candidate will have teaching and training equivalent to those in training posts. This post is a fixed term contract, but extension may be agreed.

For the successful candidate this job will provide excellent exposure to Critical Care. The successful applicant will have a named Clinical Supervisor who will also provide career advice and support for onward career progression. There is a weekly ITU teaching program and other training opportunities are available within the Trust, which you will be encouraged to attend. Doctors not in training are also able to apply for study leave and associated expenses.

Duties involve day-to-day clinical management of patients on the 11-12 bedded adult Critical Care Unit which has 700 admissions a year, as well as supporting the Critical Care Outreach service. These appointments are to enable us to continue running a 9-person rota, with 7 of these posts in recognised training programmes. The Unit is fully covered by Consultant Intensivists in a dedicated Critical Care rota.

This post may close early if enough applications are received.

Main duties of the job

DUTIES OF POST

• 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.
• 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 arteria line, central venous access, 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
• Communication with families & relatives of patients to update them on patient progress.

About us

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.

Person Specification

Education

• Full registration with a licence to practice with the GMC at the time of appointment
• MBBS or Equivalent
• ALS
• Primary FRCA and or part 1 MRCP or equivalent (2) APLS or ATLS (2)

Skills and Abilities

• Good communicator with excellent spoken English
• Have completed a recognised 2-year foundation training programme in the UK or have a completed CREST form (Certificate of Readiness to Enter Specialty Training)

Knowledge and Experience

• Previous anaesthetic or critical care experience

Personal Qualities

• Enthusiastic , Good communicator with excellent written English , Display ability to work as part of a team.

Audit and Research

• Experience of Audit projects
• Understanding of research principles

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.