Junior Clinical Fellow in Critical Care

Job overview

The Critical Care department at GSTT has an international reputation for clinical excellence and a prominent research profile. As well as serving the local population we provide tertiary critical care to the region. The units are equipped with state-of–the-art monitoring, point of care testing and a computer information system for charting, note-keeping and prescribing. All modalities of organ support are available.

The critical care department comprises seven clinical areas and totals 85 beds across the St Thomas’ and Guy's sites. There are 41 level 3 beds in the East Wing of the hospital (15 on EW1 ICU, 15 on EW2 ICU and 11 on EW6 ICU), an overnight intensive recovery unit (11 level 3 beds staffed by anaesthetists), a medical/surgical HDU on East Wing level 10 (15 level 2 beds) and cardiovascular surgical HDU (5 level 2 beds) on East Wing level 8. At the Guy’s site, there are 13 level 2/3 beds on the Guys Critical Care Unit (GCCU).

This post may close early if a sufficient number of applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will, together with colleagues, be responsible for the provision of services to the Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust to include:

• Diagnosis and treatment of patients of the trust in such hospitals, health centres or clinics or other premises as required.
• Continuing clinical responsibility for the patients in your charge, allowing for all proper delegation to, and training of, your staff.
• To participate in clinical and other service activities with the object of ensuring a high standard of patient care.

Clinical Fellows are required to provide direct clinical care in all of the Critical Care areas in the trust as, namely:

• East Wing 1, 2 and 6 Intensive Care Units
• Guy’s Critical Care Unit
• East Wing 10 High Dependency Unit
• Lane Fox Respiratory Unit
• Doulton High Dependency unit

The list of duties and responsibilities given above is not an exhaustive list and you may be asked to undertake other duties in line with the overall purpose and nature of the post as may be required from time to time.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Diagnosis and treatment of patients of the trust in such hospitals, health centres or clinics or other premises as required.
• Continuing clinical responsibility for the patients in your charge, allowing for all proper delegation to, and training of, your staff.
• To participate in clinical and other service activities with the object of ensuring a high standard of patient care.

Clinical Fellows are required to provide direct clinical care in all of the Critical Care areas in the trust as, namely:

• East Wing 1, 2 and 6 Intensive Care Units
• Guy’s Critical Care Unit
• Victoria High Dependency Unit
• Lane Fox Respiratory Unit
• Doulton High Dependency unit

Training of multi-disciplinary staff:

The postholder will take responsibility for the training and direction of multi-disciplinary staff allocated to him/her under aegis of the training plan that that postholder has agreed with their supervising consultant.

Teaching:

The postholder will be expected to contribute as appropriate in the teaching of multi-disciplinary undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Clinical Governance:

All medical and dental staff are expected to take part in clinical governance activity, including clinical audit, clinical guideline and protocol development and clinical risk management.  They will be expected to produce evidence of their contribution in these areas and their audit of their own clinical work as part of their appraisal.