Senior Clinical Fellow – Intensive Care Medicine

Job overview

Applications are invited for the post Senior Clinical Fellow on the Intensive Care Unit based at the Royal Surrey Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Starting August 2026 .

This appointment will be available for applicants who have experience of working at the level of ST3 or above (or equivalent), in an acute medical/surgical speciality or anaesthesia. Advanced airway skills are essential to this post. The Trust is seeking a motivated and ambitious individual from a variety of acute specialities who wish to gain further experience in critical care by working in a large, busy department serving a big district general hospital, specialist centre for major cancer surgery and tertiary referral centre for hepatobiliary and upper gastrointestinal emergencies, for the region. We have an international reputation for our standardised perioperative care for major elective cancer surgery, in particular for oesophageal resection, and we are one of the leading centres to adopt the National Emergency Laparotomy Pathway. Both of these, in addition to many other standardised pathways, have contributed to a much improved patient experience and outcome, and a very low ICU standardised mortality ratio (ICNARC data).

For further information Critical Care Unit Business Unit Manager, Deborah Simao on 01483 571122 ext 2177.

Main duties of the job

The ICU is approved by Kent, Surrey and Sussex Deanery for Advanced Training in Intensive Care Medicine. The post holders will work as part of a team of doctors in the ICU on an eight person rota which is EWTD compliant for 48 hours per week and a 1A banding. There are eight doctors on a more junior tier and a further eight on a more senior supervising registrar tier (SSRs) who cover across critical care and anaesthesia at nights and weekends. It consists of shift working of either long days or nights with shortened days on Fridays. Weekly protected teaching and clinical governance meeting time is included within these working hours (each Thursday) and there are a large number of educational possibilities including the learning of critical care ultrasound and cardiac echo, as well as daily bedside and informal teaching by one of the three ICU Consultants present each day. The post holder will have a named educational supervisor and meet regularly to set educational and career targets to complete. They will have all the same educational opportunities and be granted study leave and a study leave budget. The overwhelming majority of holders of these posts in the past have gone on to be successful in applying for their chosen speciality training programme with our full support.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The clinical commitment is based on the intensive care unit at Royal Surrey Hospital and will include day-shifts, night-shifts and weekend shifts. There is excellent presence of senior cover - with consultants on site until 10pm every day and airway-trained colleagues readily at hand 24/7. The Unit is adjacent to the operating theatre suite. There are 28 flexibly staffed intensive care beds and dedicated side-rooms, and the unit runs at a high occupancy rate. It has undergone a rapid expansion in the last five years, associated with the expansion of specialist cancer services. Over 1300 patients are admitted annually with ~60% coming from surgical specialties. The unit has paperless electronic records. High quality ultrasound is available throughout the hospital departments with state-of-the-art machines in ICU, theatres and the ED.

For more details please refer to  the attached job description