Echocardiography Clinical Fellow in Critical Care - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Liverpool, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Description

This program is aimed at senior trainees (post ST7 level) who wish to develop skills in intermediate or advanced level critical care echocardiography and ultrasound.

The fellowship is a 12-month program during which time the successful applicant will work as part of the Intensive Care Medicine clinical team on a 80% WTE basis, with 20% WTE protected time dedicated purely to echocardiography and ultrasound related activities.

The clinical work involves a full shift rota compliant with current training requirements.

To develop intermediate to advanced level echocardiography and ultrasound skills including:
Accreditation in British Society of Echocardiography (BSE) level one or FUSIC HD transthoracic echocardiography (depending on level of experience at the start of the program)

Introduction to the use of Transoesophageal echocardiography in a general (non-cardiac) Critical Care setting

Accreditation in Focused Transoesophageal echocardiography

Accreditation in FUSIC Lung

Experience in the delivery and organisation of point of care echo training

Contribution to regional echocardiography teaching

Contribution to research through use of echocardiography or ultrasound

Experience in echocardiography and ultrasound governance

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

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