Senior Clinical Fellow in Intensive Care (with special interest)

Whittington NHS Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare institution in Greater London is hiring a Specialty Doctor for their Intensive Care Unit. This 6-month post requires critical care experience, focusing on the management of critically ill patients. The successful candidate will participate in a supportive teaching environment, managing patients and contributing to a diverse clinical team. The role suits those with a commitment to education and good communication skills. Opportunities for training in echocardiography or ICU rehabilitation are also available.

Benefits

Opportunities for training

Diverse clinical environment

Qualifications

• Successful completion of Foundation Programme or equivalent.
• Experience in a critical care medicine role at F2 level or above.
• Commitment to teaching undergraduate and postgraduate medical staff.

Responsibilities

• Assessment and clinical management of critically ill patients.
• Timely discussion with supervising colleagues about patient admissions.
• Teaching and supervising more junior ICU trainees.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Team working abilities

Critical care experience

Empathetic and sensitive approach

Education

Registered medical practitioner

Valid Registration with the General Medical Council

Provider status at ALS

1st part of FRCA, MRCP or MCEM

Job description

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Job overview

Applications are invited for a Specialty Doctor post in the Intensive Care (with a special interest) at the Whittington Hospital NHS Trust, to start Feb 2026. Time and support will be allocated to either a special interest in echocardiography or ICU rehabilitation and follow up.

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.

Duties involve day‑to‑day management of patients on our 11 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.

Please note, this post may close early if sufficient applications are received.

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 hand‑over 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.

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

Education/Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered medical practitioner
• Valid Registration with the General Medical Council and current licence to practice
• Provider status at ALS
• 1st part of FRCA< MRCP or MCEM

Desirable criteria

• Postgraduate medical qualification- completed FRCA, MRCP or MCEM
• Simulation faculty course or willingness to undertake
• Provider status at ATLS or APLS
• Education qualification

Experience and knowledge

Essential criteria

• Successful completion of Foundation Programme or equivalent
• 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 at F2 level or above
• Excellent communication skills with patients, colleagues, manager and other staff
• Ability to take full responsibility for initial assessment of patients
• Experience of and commitment to teaching undergraduate and postgraduate medical staff

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge related to planning an educational project
• Experience of using mannequins
• 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
• Computer literate
• Ability to organise and manage own workload efficiently
• Empathetic and sensitive approach to patient needs
• Approachable and effective Multi‑disciplinary team member with excellent interpersonal skills
• Team loyalty
• Positive approach to lessons learnt
• Confident approach without being arrogant

Desirable criteria

• Willingness to support and deliver simulation faculty training
• IT skills
• Presentation skills

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria

• Ability to communicate with staff at all levels
• Ability to work as a member of the team
• Demonstrated commitment to clinical education
• Time management ability
• Aware of work learning needs
• Self‑motivated

Desirable criteria

• Enthusiasm to be a clinical educator in the future
• Evidence of innovation
• Experience of Human Factors training

Other Requirements

Essential criteria

• Must be willing to work flexibly according to teaching workload
• Ability to work at different sites within the organisation
• Demonstrate evidence of lifelong learning
• Reflective approach to personal development with an ability to acknowledge and effectively manage poor performance

Desirable criteria

• Continued professional/personal development

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS

To comply with the Trust's Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:

• Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
• Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
• Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
• Participate in required training and supervision.
• Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct

Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Your application form

1. Provide only business email address for your referees - we are unable to request references from yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts.
2. Make sure you to include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the jobs description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.

Our processes

1. Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.
2. If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunately this means you have not been successfully shortlisted for interview. If your require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.
3. Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence from us will be via trac.systems - occasionally these emails will go into your Junk folder.
4. Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.

Other important information

• Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
• Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
• In submitting an application form, you authorise Whittington Health NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.

We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation

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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.

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

• JD & PS - Senior Clinical Fellow (PDF, 328.4KB)