Senior Clinical Fellow in Intensive Care Medicine ST3+

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is seeking anaesthetic or ICM specialty doctors. This role offers significant opportunities for clinical skills development, involvement in research, and teaching. Candidates should hold GMC registration and relevant qualifications. This position includes a collaborative work environment with responsibilities that span clinical duties, teaching, and quality improvement initiatives.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Flexible working options

Wellbeing programs

Staff recognition schemes

Qualifications

• Able to speak and write English to the appropriate standard necessary to fulfil the job requirements.
• Completion of foundation training or equivalent.
• Experience of teaching and training undergraduates/postgraduates.
• Understanding of principles of clinical audit.
• Knowledge of processes involved in research.

Responsibilities

• Support research initiatives related to the Trust's wider framework.
• Participate in teaching activities for junior staff and medical students.
• Accurately document communication with patients, relatives, and staff.
• Engage in quality improvement projects.
• Lead and manage the performance of colleagues.

Skills

Teaching and training experience

Clinical audit understanding

Leadership and management ability

Competent at assessment of acutely ill patients

IT Skills and computer literacy

Education

On the GMC's medical register with a Licence to Practice

FRCA Primary / MRCP / MRCS / FFICM Primary / EDIC

Job description

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Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

This is an opportunity for an anaesthetic or ICM speciality doctor or trainee, to join the team at Hammersmith Hospital ICU to actively develop their clinical skills and experience in a tertiary centre. The department prides itself on fostering a supportive and collaborative environment for junior medical colleagues to develop within. Notwithstanding the clinical experience, particularly around complex medical patients with critical illness, the successful candidate will work in a department that is particularly active in research, academia, teaching and quality improvement where opportunities for participation in such activities will be afforded and encouraged. The post would suit speciality doctors at senior clinical fellow level, wishing to obtain or further existing clinical experience whilst developing non-clinical facets in cardiothoracic intensive care.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will join a team of 7 Residents (SHOs) and 14 Middle Grade (Registrars).

The Registrar rota is part of a thirteen-person rota which includes short days, long days and nights.

The shifts are from 08:00 -17.30 pm short days or from 08:00 to 21:00 long days and 20:00 to 09.00 nights.

Both rotas comply with the regulations as set out in the junior doctor terms and conditions of service 2016.

The successful applicant will be allocated into the appropriate rota depending on his/her skills and experience relative to other members of the team. Co-operation with any changes will be appreciated.

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will be expected to support research initiatives, appropriate to previous experience and complementary to those programmes that exist within the wider research framework of the directorate and Trust.

Excellent research opportunities are available throughout the Trust and with Imperial College London. A number of funding opportunities are available from the Biomedical Research Centre, the Trust Research Committee and from NIHR. In addition, there are opportunities for research funding from the Medical Research Council, BBSRC, the Wellcome Trust and other medical charities.

An honorary academic appointment with Imperial College Faculty of Medicine will be offered if research and/or teaching is undertaken.

The Trust supports and has facilitated a large number of honorary academic appointments with Imperial College Faculty of Medicine. Opportunities should be discussed with the divisional director.

Teaching

Both postgraduate and undergraduate teaching activity take place in the unit. The unit is fully accredited for training in intensive care medicine and receives trainees from schemes in anaesthetics, ACCS and EM as well as senior trainees in ICM. All junior staff are allocated an educational supervisor. We encourage juniors to take study leave and will enable attendance at appropriate events provided adequate notice is given.

All juniors are provided with twice weekly teaching (including journal club) on intensive care topics.

The successful candidate will be expected to participate in local teaching (both undergraduate and postgraduate) activities and will be encouraged to engage in projects as agreed with their educational supervisor.

Duties & responsibilities

Consistent with that of the clinical role, to include but not limited to accurate written communication with patients, relatives and staff and documentation in fidelity with the GMC's good medical practice guide. Further administrative duties / senior managerial duties may be agreed by mutual agreement with appropriate time set aside to facilitate.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• On the GMC's medical register with a Licence to Practice
• FRCA Primary / MRCP / MRCS / FFICM Primary / EDIC

Desirable criteria

• MD, PhD
• On GMC's Specialist Register or within six months of being admitted to the register by the date of the interviews or eligible for specialist registration

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria

• Completion of foundation training or equivalent

Desirable criteria

• ALS, ATLS, ALERT, CCrISP provider or instructor

Teaching and training

Essential criteria

• Experience of teaching and training undergraduates/postgraduates and junior medical staff

Audit

Essential criteria

• Understanding of principles of clinical audit

Desirable criteria

• Previous experience of audit activity/QIP

Academic achievements including research/publications

Essential criteria

• Knowledge of processes involved in research

Desirable criteria

• Previous research published in peer reviewed journals

Language

Essential criteria

• Able to speak and write English to the appropriate standard necessary to fulfil the job requirements

Clinical expertise in Specialty/sub specialty

Essential criteria

• Previous experience in ICM or anaesthetics Core anaesthetic or acute common care stem training (or equivalence)
• Competent at assessment of the acutely ill patient
• IT Skills and computer literacy

Leadership/ management skills

Essential criteria

• Able to take responsibility, show leadership, make decisions, exert appropriate authority
• Have proven skills in leading, motivating, developing and managing the performance of colleagues.

Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).

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

• Job Description (PDF, 760.5KB)
• Functional requirements (PDF, 232.6KB)
• Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)