# Senior Clinical Fellow in Intensive Care (with special interest) > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Whittington Health NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-clinical-fellow-in-intensive-care-with-special-interest/d649ed34-d0ee-47eb-9792-04efd30a2de0 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-clinical-fellow-in-intensive-care-with-special-interest/d649ed34-d0ee-47eb-9792-04efd30a2de0.md ## Summary - **Status:** Archived / closed - **Employer:** Whittington Health NHS Trust - **Location:** The Whittington Hospital - **Profession:** Medical doctor - **Speciality:** Anaesthesia and Intensive Care - **Grade:** Senior - **Salary:** £65,048 - £73,992 Per Annum - **Contract type:** 6 months (Fixed term) - **Employment type:** Full time - 40 hours per week (Rota - Day 8.30am-9.30pm, Night 8.30pm-9.30am) - **Closing date:** 2026-02-19T08:00:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-02-05T15:25:08.958Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Whittington_Health_NHS_Trust/Critical_Care/Critical_Care-v7766462 - **Employer website:** https://www.whittington.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Applications are invited for a Specialty Doctor post in the Intensive Care (with a special interest) at the Whittington Hospital NHS Trust, to start ASAP. Time and support will be allocated to either a special interest in echocardiography or ICU rehabilitation and follow up. 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. Duties involve day-to-day management of patients on our 11 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. Please note, this post may close early if sufficient applications are received. ### 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 Communication with families & relatives of patients to update them on patient progress. ### 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 ### Other Requirements **Essential** - - Must be willing to work flexibly according to teaching workload - - Ability to work at different sites within the organisation - - Demonstrate evidence of lifelong learning - - Reflective approach to personal development with an ability to acknowledge and effectively manage poor performance **Desirable** - - Continued professional/personal development ### Personal Qualities **Essential** - - Ability to communicate with staff at all levels - - Ability to work as a member of the team - - Demonstrated commitment to clinical education - - Time management ability - - Aware of work learning needs - - Self-motivated **Desirable** - - Enthusiasm to be a clinical educator in the future - - Evidence of innovation - - Experience of Human Factors training ### Skills and Abilities **Essential** - - Experience of teaching - - Good communication skills - - Good team working abilities - - Computer literate - - Ability to organise and manage own workload efficiently - - Empathetic and sensitive approach to patient needs - - Approachable and effective Multi-disciplinary team member with excellent interpersonal skills - - Team loyalty - - Positive approach to lessons learnt - - Confident approach without being arrogant **Desirable** - - Willingness to support and deliver simulation faculty training - - IT skills - - Presentation skills ### Education/Qualifications **Essential** - - Registered medical practitioner - - Valid Registration with the General Medical Council and current licence to practice - - Provider status at ALS - - 1st part of FRCA\< MRCP or MCEM **Desirable** - - Postgraduate medical qualification- completed FRCA, MRCP or MCEM - - Simulation faculty course or willingness to undertake - - Provider status at ATLS or APLS - - Education qualification ### Experience and knowledge **Essential** - - Successful completion of Foundation Programme or equivalent - - 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 at F2 level or above - - Excellent communication skills with patients, colleagues, manager and other staff - - Ability to take full responsibility for initial assessment of patients - - Experience of and commitment to teaching undergraduate and postgraduate medical staff **Desirable** - - Knowledge related to planning an educational project - - Experience of using mannequins - - Experience of audit management - - Experience of teaching basic clinical skills to undergraduates - - Teaching of non-medical health professionals. ## Documents - [job description & person specification (pdf, 373.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10055992) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references.