Trust ST1/2 In Critical Care

Job overview

Working Full time: 40 hours per week

Two posts available one commencing 4th February 2026 and one commencing 23rd March 2026.  Both posts will be contracted until 4 August 2026

Salary as per the 2016 New Junior Doctor Terms & Conditions in addition you will be paid additional pay elements as per the Rota.

These exciting posts (first appointed in August 2014) are for doctors to gain Critical Care experience in a range of aspects of the care of patients from the community or from within the hospital. The posts will offer candidates from the UK or from further abroad a unique opportunity to consolidate their experience in a busy and supportive NHS foundation hospital and provide a stepping-stone to the next level of clinical experience.

Junior Fellows in Critical care will participate on a 9 person full shift rota covering Critical Care including nights and weekends with compensatory days off following on-call periods.

This is not an educationally approved post however the post-holder will have educational teaching, learning and assessment equivalent to those on National Training Programmes.

Applicants for these posts must hold a medical degree from an institution recognised by the GMC. They must have full GMC registration and a licence to practise. Applicants must have NHS experience and be able to demonstrate an ability to communicate in English in a clinical environment.

Main duties of the job

The Junior Fellow will be part of the Critical Care/Anaesthesia Team and will be professionally and personally responsible for ensuring that their clinical practice is, at all times, of the highest quality. They will be expected to be supportive of and play their part in the work and commitments of the team, ensuring that they put patients and their safety at the centre of their practice.

They will be required to act professionally and respect the values of the Countess of Chester Hospital (see appendix on Trust values)

The duties will involve the day-to-day care of the level 2 & 3 patients under the supervision of a consultant, this will include daily reviews as well as practical procedures including intubation, vascular access, ventilation (including complex modes), procedural ultrasound, assessment of critically ill patients, use of invasive monitoring and percutaneous tracheostomy.

The appointee will be directly accountable to the Lead clinician in critical care.

The appointee will be expected to undertake continuing medical education, continuing professional development and participate in audit/research.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

See Job Description for further details.

Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs will be deducted from their salary over the first three months of employment.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £16 per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.

Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.

Good luck with your application.