Job requirements
Essential
21 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Qualifications
Registered with General Medical Council (UK) with a License to Practice
- Qualifications
Completed core training in ICM or anaesthesia or equivalent
- Qualifications
Possession of RCoA Certificate of Initial Assessment of Competence or equivalent
- Qualifications
Advanced Life Support provider
- Aptitudes & Others
Able to demonstrate all Trust values (Supportive, Respectful, Innovative and Collaborative)
- Aptitudes & Others
Evidence of entitlement to live and work in the UK
- Skills and Abilities
Advanced airway skills including ability to intubate critically ill patient with distant supervision
- Skills and Abilities
Ability to site invasive lines (e.g. arterial, central venous, vascath) with distant supervision
- Skills and Abilities
Ability to organise and prioritise workload
- Skills and Abilities
Good communication skills
- Skills and Abilities
Honesty and reliability
- Skills and Abilities
Ability to work effectively within a team
- Skills and Abilities
Flexibility
- Skills and Abilities
Inquiring and critical approach to work
- Skills and Abilities
Demonstrates initiative
- Skills and Abilities
Appropriately assertive
- Knowledge and Experience
Previous experience in Critical Care Medicine equivalent to completion of core training
- Knowledge and Experience
Able to assess, resuscitate and stabilise acutely sick patients
- Knowledge and Experience
Able to participate as key member of cardiac arrest team
- Knowledge and Experience
Demonstrates good clinical judgement
- Knowledge and Experience
Understands audit and governance processes
Desirable
7 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Qualifications
FFICM/FRCA/MRCP/MRCS (Part 1) or equivalent
- Qualifications
Other membership, fellowship or diplomas
- Qualifications
Previous experience of working in critical care in the British Healthcare system (not observing)
- Skills and Abilities
Ability to take on administrative roles within the Department
- Skills and Abilities
A willingness to undertake additional clinical duties when necessary, including cover for colleagues on leave
- Knowledge and Experience
Completed specialist skills courses (e.g. difficult airways, ATLS/APLS, ultrasound course, etc)
- Knowledge and Experience
Designed and / or completed audits
Job overview
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust (BFT) is seeking doctors to join ITS City & Weston Hospital Operating Unit’s (C&WHOU) Adult Critical Care team at ST3+ equivalent level.
These full-time posts are based across the adult intensive care units at Bristol Royal Infirmary, Bristol Heart Institute and Weston General Hospital. The post holder will work within a multiprofessional team, alongside other doctors, to deliver high-quality care on a full-shift rota while gaining experience in both tertiary referral and district general hospital settings.
The Intensive Care Units at C&WHOU provide Critical Care support across all of its clinical services. These posts form part of the resident staffing of the ICUs.
The post holder will work resident day and night shifts in both Bristol ICUs, providing care for the patients in the unit and on the wards as part of the multidisciplinary ICU team. The postholder will be required to work resident shifts including evenings, nights and weekends.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will be working in a busy tertiary ICU and will gain experience in several different organ support modalities including respiratory, cardiovascular and renal support as well as developing their practical skills (central venous and arterial cannulation, cardiac output monitoring, point of care ultrasound and endo-tracheal intubation).
The postholder will be a key member of the cardiac arrest team. In addition to bedside clinical teaching, there is an embedded teaching programme covering all aspects of the ICM syllabus that takes place every Wednesday.
There is the opportunity to be involved in ongoing audit and quality improvement projects and the unit is research active with several ongoing research projects and international studies.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more information, please check out the Job Description attached and feel free contact Dr Inthu Kangesan (ICM Consultant and Recruitment lead).
Inthu.kangesan@uhbw.nhs.uk
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.
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This advert is for Clinical Fellow in Critical Care Medicine with University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust in Weston-super-mare, England. It is listed as a Junior Medical doctor Anaesthesia and Intensive Care role. The advertised salary is £67,325 - £76,582 pa pro rata. The contract type is Fixed term: 12 months (1 Year). The application deadline is 19 Oct 2026.
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