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Key responsibilities include managing patients in a 12-bed Critical Care Unit with around 700 annual admissions, supporting the Critical Care Outreach service, assessing critically ill patients in the ICU and throughout the hospital, and conducting common procedures under supervision. The position also involves teaching junior trainees, ensuring proper handover of patient information, maintaining clinical records, and communicating with patients' families.
The hospital offers a friendly teaching environment with various educational opportunities, including weekly teaching programs in ITU and anesthetics.
Applications are invited for a Senior Clinical Fellow post in the Intensive Care and Anesthetics at the Whittington Hospital NHS Trust, to start asap or at latest Feb 2025. Evenings, nights and weekend shifts will be spent working in critical care. Day time shifts will be spent working in the anaesthetic department.
This post is for 6 months, but can be longer by mutual agreement, and would suit candidates with some previous ICU experience and Acute Specialty experience. This job may be FT or PT
Duties involve day-to-day management of patients on our 12 bedded adult Critical Care Unit with about 700 admissions a year, as well as supporting the Critical Care Outreach service, on a full shift rota. The Unit is fully covered by Consultant Intensivists in a dedicated rota.
There is a weekly ITU teaching program, weekly anaesthetic teaching sessions and many other training opportunities are available within the Trust.
The Whittington Hospital is a busy, friendly teaching hospital situated in North Central London. The Emergency Department sees 85,000 new patients per year who come from diverse backgrounds with a broad range of clinical problems.
- Assessment & clinical management of critically ill patients both within the ICU and across the wider hospital who are referred for assessment, admission and on-going care. This includes prompt review of referrals from ED or the ward teams at night as the Critical Care Outreach nurse service only operates 8am-8pm 7 days a week
- Timely discussion with senior supervising colleagues regarding appropriateness of admission, unexpected deterioration and suitability for discharge.
- Familiarity and competence at common procedures is expected (vascular access, chest drain insertion etc) but supervised training is also given for other procedures eg percutaneous tracheostomy. Airway support is provided by the on-call Anaesthetics team for ICU doctors without anaesthesia or airway skills.
- Direction, guidance, supervision & teaching of more junior ICU trainees including for practical procedures
- Organisation of appropriately detailed patient hand-over both at shift changes including current clinical condition of patients under review outside of the ICU.
- Written and verbal handover to ward team for patients stepping down to ward care
- Updating of clinical records, electronic & paper data & audit systems including the ICU activity database (Wardwatcher)
- Communication with families & relatives of patients to update them on patient progress
About us
For a detailed overview of the main duties and responsibilities of the post please refer to the attached Job Description.
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