Senior Clinical Fellow in Adult Intensive Care Medicine

Background to the Post: This post is to provide resident cover and experience at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. Initially posts will be offered for initially 6 months but may be extended by agreement to 12 months or longer depending on satisfactory performance and vacancies. We would like to offer rotations to other sites as vacancies allow.

Summary: The ICU senior clinical fellow would be expected to join the registrar grade tier of doctors who provide full on-call cover for the units including at weekends and nights. Airway experience is essential.

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Duties and responsibilities When on duty for ICU the resident will review and manage patients on the ICU under the supervision of the registrar or consultant. They will form part of our multidisciplinary team caring for critically ill patients, performing procedures and investigations, liaising with referring teams, keeping relatives updated and acting as the first point of call for the ICU nursing staff.

All junior grades work in close cooperation with the consultants. The ICM resident are also expected to take an active role in supervision and training of medical students and junior doctors who are frequently attached to the ICU. Outline Timetable A minimum of twice daily multidisciplinary consultant ward rounds on each site, weekly MDTs. Daily afternoon meeting or ward round with a consultant or SpR in Infectious Diseases/Microbiology. Some ward rounds are delegated to the middle grade doctors with consultant background cover and discussion. Shifts vary in length from 9.5 to 13 hours. The work pattern amounts to an average of less than 48 hours per week (including weekends) for all grades. We run a full 7 day service.