Senior Clinical Fellow in Intensive Care medicine | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 20 Mawrth 2026 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £65,048 per annum plus £2162 London Weighting |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 19 Ebrill 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | LONDON, NW32QG |
| Cwmni: | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7861088/391-RFL-7861088 |
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Royal Free ICU is looking for a motivated senior clinical fellow to join our dynamic critical care team. The post provides protected non-clinical time to develop the chosen interest alongside clinical ICU work. Fellows will be mentored by experienced consultants aligned with their specialist interest.
The post offers an excellent opportunity to gain experience in a busy tertiary intensive care unit while developing a specialist portfolio in one of the following areas:
• Liver critical care
• Clinical research
• Transthoracic echocardiography
• Quality improvement
• Medical education
The post is for 12 months, commencing August 2026 and is based at the Royal Free Hospital site in London. The post will comprise approximately 70% clinical work within the ICU and 30% protected time to develop the fellow’s chosen specialist interest.
The time will be structured and supported through supervision, mentorship, and departmental opportunities.
The Intensive Care department at the Royal Free is recognised by FICM for training in Intensive Care Medicine at all levels.
The Royal Free London (RFL) is one of the largest NHS Foundation Trusts in the country, employing over 17,000 staff and serving a local population of over 1.6 million people. Patients from across the country access our specialist services in liver and renal disease, cancer, organ transplantation, HIV and infectious diseases, immunology, cardiology, amyloidosis, scleroderma, and single-gene disorders including haemophilia and lysosomal storage disorders.
The total number of beds in the Critical Care (encompassing ICU, SHDU and PACU) service is currently 50. The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Royal Free Hospital (RFH) site currently occupies all the clinical areas on the 4thfloor of the main hospital building and comprises 34 beds.
The Enhanced Perioperative Integrated Care (EPIC) unit opened in 2021 on the third floor contains an eight-bedded Perioperative Anaesthetic Care Unit (PACU) and a 12-bed Surgical High Dependency Unit (SHDU). The EPIC service is forward looking and the HPB and Liver peri-operative teams are world leaders in Enhanced Recovery. There is an active peri-operative research programme led jointly by the critical care and anaesthesia departments.
The fellowship is designed to support career development in intensive care medicine and to provide fellows with opportunities to develop academic, leadership, educational or specialist clinical expertise alongside high-quality clinical training.
Special interest fellowship tracks
Fellows will undertake a structured fellowship track in one of the following areas, with dedicated mentorship and protected development time.
• Liver critical care
Fellows will gain experience in management of patients with acute liver failure, decompensated cirrhosis and acute-on-chronic liver failure, patients undergoing liver transplantation, and complex hepatopancreatobiliary surgical patients.
There are opportunities to collaborate with the transplant, hepatology, and HPB teams within a large multidisciplinary service. Fellows will be able to attend hepatology and transplant multidisciplinary meetings and participate in decision making for complex cases. Fellows will also be able to contribute to liver critical care research and quality improvement initiatives, and participate in the department’s liver critical care conference programme, which attracts a national audience.
• Clinical research
Fellows will have the opportunity to participate in the department’s active critical care research programme, working alongside experienced investigators and a dedicated research nursing team. The role provides an excellent environment for developing academic skills within a busy tertiary critical care unit.
• Opportunities will include designing and undertaking original observational research projects, performing secondary analysis of locally collected and published datasets, and contributing to ongoing national and international randomised controlled trials, including patient recruitment and trial delivery. Fellows will gain experience across the full research pathway, including study design, protocol development, data analysis, and preparation of manuscripts for publication. Where appropriate, fellows will be supported to work through Health Research Authority (HRA) and ethics approval processes to develop investigator-led studies.
• The post also offers the opportunity to generate pilot data to support future academic fellowship or grant applications, including doctoral or externally funded research fellowships.
Fellows will play an active role in the department’s academic activities, including leading journal clubs and critical appraisal sessions, and contributing to the promotion of evidence-based practice within the ICU.
• Transthoracic echocardiography
• Fellows with an interest in echocardiography will have the opportunity to develop experience in image acquisition, interpretation and integration of echocardiographic findings with other haemodynamic monitoring modalities used in critical care.
• Training will focus on the use of echocardiography to support haemodynamic assessment and clinical decision making in patients with complex cardiovascular and multi-organ failure.
The department provides weekly, protected time for supervised scanning and structured learning. Echo fellows will work towards gaining the British Society of Echocardiography (BSE) level 1 accreditation during their year at theRoyalFree.
Later on during the year, there is also an opportunity for teaching, joining with the consultant echo group, to help supervise and train residents interested in gaining a FUSIC qualification.
• Quality Improvement and Leadership
Fellows interested in quality improvement and leadership will have opportunities to design and lead quality improvement initiatives within the ICU and wider critical care service. This may include projects focused on patient safety, clinical pathways, service delivery, cost improvement, and implementation of evidence-based practice.
Fellows will work with the multidisciplinary team to identify areas for improvement, develop interventions, and evaluate outcomes using established quality improvement methodologies. There will also be opportunities to engage with the department’s governance structures and participate in audit, guideline development and service evaluation.
Projects undertaken during the fellowship may lead to presentation at regional or national meetings and contribute to the fellow’s professional portfolio.
• Medical Education
Fellows with an interest in medical education will have the opportunity to contribute to the department’s established teaching programme for medical students, foundation doctors and specialty trainees. This will include bedside teaching, simulation-based training, and the development of educational resources.
Fellows will be encouraged to develop skills in teaching, curriculum design and educational leadership, and to contribute to innovative approaches to training within critical care.
Educational projects undertaken during the fellowship may form part of a teaching portfolio and support future development in medical education, including formal postgraduate qualifications where appropriate.
This advert closes on Friday 3 Apr 2026