Trust Senior Fellow within Critical Care

Job overview

This role will support the running of both Critical Care units in Gloucestershire Royal and Cheltenham General Hospitals. The post will also support the provision of on call services across both sites.

This role will complement our current junior and middle grade rotas to continue to provide the high level of care for which our units are proud to deliver.

Roles will include the review and management of patients on the Critical Care unit along with review of patients referred to Critical Care.

You will be an integral member of the Adult and Paediatric Cardiac arrest teams as well as the Trauma team.

You will be expected to delivery all procedures required for the management of current inpatients and stabilisation of new admission with the exception of percutaneous tracheostomies.

It is vital that you are able to work within the flat hierarchy we maintain and work with all members of the MDT.

It is hoped that you will also look to support the educational and research programme of the department and you will be supported in these roles

PLEASE NOTE THIS ADVERT MAY CLOSE EARLY IF THERE ARE SUFFICIENT APPLICANTS

Main duties of the job

To be eligible to apply for this job you must have minimum of 12 months anaesthetic experience and be able to provide advanced airway maneuvers independently with only remote support available.

You must be proficient at inserting central venous access including dialysis lines.

It is expected that you will have completed a minimum of 12 months of resident Intensive cover.

We expected that all life support courses are up to date.

It is desirable that in addition the applicant has post graduate anesthesia or Intensive care medical qualifications (ie FRCA (Part 1 or higher), FFICM, EDIC etc).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Gloucestershire Critical Care department is a dynamic, hard-working unit that delivers excellent outcomes for our patients and is a fantastic place to work, learn and contribute

1.        Clinical Responsibilities/Key Responsibilities

• a.    Provide care to Critical Care patients b.    Reviewing Critical Care referrals from throughout the hospital c.    Support the provision of an on-call rota in a 1:8 frequency d.    Support the MDT on Critical Care e.    Participate in shared decision making for ongoing management of Critical Care patient

2.            Professional Development, Education and Training

• a.    We would hope that you will support the departmental educational program b.    Attendance at teaching when available on duty is expected. This includes

i.    Radiology teaching- every Tuesday

ii.    Education session- every Friday

iii.    Departmental M & M – alternate months

3.            Management and Leadership

• a.    You will be expected to show strong and clear leadership at all times. This will be especially relevant and important when forming part of the out of hours Critical Care team to both the unit and Cardiac arrest teams.

4.            Research and Development

• a.    You will support recruitment into ongoing research projects b.    You are welcome to support the department in its extensive research portfolio including undertaking the role as an Associate PI

5.            Communications and Working Relationships

• a.    High quality, clear and comprehensive communication is expected at all times. b.    You will be expected to regularly communicate with patients and involved them where possible in shared decision making about their ongoing medical management c.    You will be expected to communication with relatives and next of kin in a professional and kind manner at all times but especially around sensitive and upsetting situations d.    You will be expected to communicated effectively with all members of the MDT and other specialties.

6.            Clinical Governance

• a.    The department of Critical Care has robust Clinical governance processes with a monthly CG meeting and two monthly mortality and morbidity review.