Senior Clinical Fellow in Critical Care & Anesthetics

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Job overview

Applications are invited for a Senior Clinical Fellow post in the Intensive Care and Anesthetics at the Whittington Hospital NHS Trust, to start asap or at latest August 2025. Evenings, nights and weekend shifts will be spent working in critical care. Day time shifts will be spent working in the anaesthetic department.

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. This job will be 0.5 WTE to complement a similar post which is currently 0.5WTE

Duties involve day-to-day management of patients on our 12 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.

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 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 (Wardwatcher)
• 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

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered medical practitioner
• Valid Registration with the General Medical Council and current licence to practice
• Provider status at ALS

Desirable criteria

• Postgraduate medical qualification
• Provider status at ATLS or APLS

Experience and knowledge

Essential criteria

• 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 for at least 1 year in NHS (or similar ) environment
• Ability to take full responsibility for initial assessment and management of critically ill patients
• Experience of and commitment to teaching undergraduate and postgraduate medical staff

Desirable criteria

• 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
• Empathetic and sensitive approach to patient needs

Desirable criteria

• Willingness to support and deliver sessions describing current research activity to medical, nursing and AHP staff
• Presentation skills
• IT skills

Personal Attributes

Essential criteria

• Ability to communicate with staff at all levels
• Demonstrated commitment to clinical education

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of innovation

Other requirements

Essential criteria

• Must be willing to work flexibly according to research workload
• Demonstrate evidence of lifelong learning

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.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a "selfie" using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit

Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided

The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.

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

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 (PDF, 472.4KB)
• Person Specification (PDF, 32.7KB)