Senior Clinical Fellow ICU

Job overview

You will join our multidisciplinary team within the Intensive Care Units at Salford Royal Hospital and Fairfield General Hospital of the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA).

The junior trainee medical staff compliment includes trainees from Foundation programmes, ACCS, Anaesthesia, Internal Medicine and Intensive Care Medicine. The job would afford you clinical exposure to a broad case mix including neuroscience, trauma, upper GI, intestinal failure and renal failure patients as well as a general ICU case mix.

We welcome applications from Senior Clinical Fellows and the post is open to intensive care physicians, anaesthetists, medical or emergency medicine doctors.

Main duties of the job

Salford Royal Hospital ICU is a busy tertiary referral neuroscience and general adult ICU with capacity up to 40 beds over 5 Pods covering medicine (including respiratory and COVID), surgery, neurosciences, renal and many other tertiary services. With the addition of the new James Potter building, we expect our workload in specialist services such as trauma, neurosciences and surgery to continue to expand.

Fairfield Hospital is a busy district general hospital serving a large population in the towns of Bury and Rochdale. It has a busy Emergency Department and provides general medicine inpatient care with multiple specialist services including respiratory, cardiology and stroke. The intensive care unit provides resuscitation and stabilisation for level 3 patients as well as high dependency care for level 2.

We have a strong history of successfully supporting fellows through higher professional examinations and attainment of substantive posts. We would be supportive of overseas graduates in working towards a CESR in Intensive Care Medicine. There would be the opportunity to gain skills and accreditation in US including ECHO as well as mirroring special skills modules in Quality Improvement, Neurosciences, Education etc.

The ICU runs a fully accredited training programme which has an excellent local reputation. The successful candidates would be expected to participate in the programme and ongoing appraisal.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: https://careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk/