Senior Clinical Fellow (ST5) Critical Care Medicine | Barts Health NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 04 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £46,404 - £63,152 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 May 2024 |
| Location: | London, EC1A 7BE |
| Company: | Barts Health NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6202260/259-MED534SBH |
Summary
Senior Clinical Fellow in Cardiothoracic Critical Care with a special interest in extracorporeal life support (ECLS).
We are recruiting a Senior Clinical Fellow (ST5+ equivalent) in Critical Care Medicine.
Gain experience in both cardiac and general intensive care working in one of our four critical care units. The clinical work is alternated with special clinical interest (ECLS – at least one day per week dedicated to ECLS) and audit activity.
This post is a unique opportunity to be a part of the UK's premier cardiac centre - Barts Heart Centre. The Barts Heart Centre (BHC) is a venture formed by merging cardiothoracic services from the London Chest Hospital, St Bartholomew’s Hospital and the Heart Hospital. This merger created the UK's largest cardiothoracic centre with nearly all specialist cardiac services for north central and northeast London and beyond and highly specialised national services, brought together in the newly built hospital on the St Bartholomew’s site.
Full GMC registration with a license to practice is required.
For further information/informal visit, please contact:
Dr Hazem Lashin (hazem.lashin@nhs.net)
Dr Sachin Shah (s.shah4@nhs.net)
The post is open to doctors from any base speciality who has reached at least intermediate level (completed ST5) in Intensive Care Medicine or equivalent training.
The fellowship aims to train fellows in initiating and managing extracorporeal life support. The fellow will work closely with the ECMO consultants and the ECMO lead. They will be expected to be involved in the whole journey of ECLS patients. The fellow will also be involved in ECLS education, quality improvement and governance.
The ECLS Fellow will be expected to contribute to designing and delivering the ECLS teaching program for nursing and junior medical staff. In and to be involved in its governance
The fellow will have the opportunity to be a part of a highly functioning Critical Care team with vast experience in this field. The fellow will be encouraged to rotate through the cardiothoracic ICU to gain expertise in managing immediate post-operative patients. They will be exposed to various cardiac-output monitoring devices, including pulmonary artery catheters, PiCCO2, oesophageal Doppler and transoesophageal echocardiography.
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which ourWeCarevalues and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by ourWeCarevalues and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
The Department of Perioperative Medicine (Intensive Care Medicine and Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Critical Care), led by Dr Jeremy Cordingley, the Cardiothoracic Surgical Department (led by Mr Steve Edmonson), the Interventional Cardiology Department (led by Prof Anthony Mathur) and the electrophysiology department (led by Prof Ross Hunter) form part of the Cardiovascular Clinical Academic Group, led by Professor. Charles Knight, CAG Director. The group works closely with the School of Medicine and Dentistry and the William Harvey Institute to promote clinical translational research. Recently, we announced exciting plans to found a joint UCL and QMUL Cardiovascular Institute.
We are committed to providing high-quality specialist cardiac services for the whole population of north-central and northeast London and working with the Network and partner DGHs to continue improving access to cardiac, vascular and thoracic care. We also have well-established links with referring district general hospitals. Barts Health is committed to shortly achieving Foundation Trust status.
This advert closes on Sunday 21 Apr 2024