Specialist Fellow in Adult Critical Care and - Nottingham, United Kingdom - Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

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Applications are invited for a Specialist Fellow in Adult Critical Care and Governance post starting in August 2024.

Clinical Responsibilities will include (not exhaustive)

Perform daily reviews on ICU patients and present findings on the MDT ward round
Review critically unwell patients outside of critical care
Admit, stabilise and formulate an initial management plan for critically unwell adults
After a period of training competently use vasopressors, insert CVC and Arterial Lines.

During your time in post you will also

Dedicate at least 2 days per week to governance activities
Undertake a quality improvement project(s).
Engage in and deliver education to relevant staff groups.

Adult Critical Care at NUH is a highly supportive, friendly, cohesive, ambitious and energetic team led by a group of consultants devoted to delivering excellent care to our patients.

We invest in every member of team, are positive about well-being and have an accommodating approach to the rota. There are an abundance of educational opportunities and on-site is the well regarded Trent Simulation Centre. Our juniors consistently secure their preferred training posts through competitive selection.

Our 66 critical care beds are split between the Queen's Medical Centre and Nottingham City Hospital, admitting in excess of 4500 patients per year.

We accept patients from all of the major medical and surgical specialties and are a tertiary referral centre for many subspecialties.

Of note we are a neurosurgical centre, burns centre and are one of the busiest major trauma centres in Europe.

Among our staff are the National Lead for Organ Donation and the Vice Chair of NIHR's Critical Care Group.

The post is open to all applicants who meet the essential criteria as detailed in the person specification below.

It is open to all doctors who hold Full/limited registration with the GMC and successfully completed foundation year 2 training plus a further 2 years in the acute specialities (Acute Medicine, Anaesthesia, ICM or Emergency Medicine) who wish to gain further experience in the management of critically unwell patients with a wide range of medical and surgical conditions.

This post uniquely offers the applicant an opportunity to strengthen the link between the governance team and wider Intensive Care team by leading quality improvement projects.

Person Specification:
Specialist Fellow in Adult Critical Care and Governance Essential for the post:
A) MB ChB or equivalent & GMC registration with licence to practise

B) Successful completion of FY2 training

C) 2 Years of post-foundation experience in the acute specialities in an NHS setting.

D) Evidence of competence in clinical tasks

E) Evidence of continuous career development

F) Evidence of good written communication, successful team worker, sensitivity to needs of patients and colleagues

G) Punctuality, professional appearance and attitudes consistent with GMC guidelines.

Values and behaviours aligned with NUH's Desirable for the post:

H) Primary FRCA or equivalent higher qualification

I) ALS or equivalent accredited life support course

J) Six months' experience in anaesthesia

K) Six months' experience in internal medicine

L) Previous experience in critical care medicine

M) Completion of IAC

N) Completion of an audit cycle

O) Published Research

P) Evidence of academic achievement including additional qualifications, prizes

Q) Competence in Bronchoscopy, Lung US and Focused Echocardiography

R) Attendance at meetings/ courses/ membership of professional bodies

S) Evidence of formal human factors training

T) Demonstrates non-medical interests/ activities

Critical care is part of the Clinical Support division.

There are 3 distinct adult critical care areas managed by clinical support across both QMC and City campuses.

We aim to rotate you through both campuses so that you are exposed to a wide range of pathologies and speciality experience.

Queen's Medical Centre Campus (QMC) On the Queen's campus Critical Care is divided into a 29-bedded Intensive Care (level 3 beds), and a 20-bedded level 2 High Dependency Unit.

At QMC critical care receives referrals from major trauma and the following surgical specialties:
neurosurgery, spinal, emergency orthopaedics, hepatobiliary, vascular, lower GI, maxillofacial and ENT. It also receives referrals from acute medicine (including acute gastroenterology).

Of note, NUH became the East Midlands Major Trauma Centre in April 2012 and is the busiest Major Trauma Centre in the UK.

Nottingham City Hospital Campus The critical care unit at the City campus has 17 beds that are used flexibly to accommodate up to 9 level 3 patients, the remaining beds are for level 2 admissions.

The major subspecialty interests at City are thoracic surgery, upper GI surgery, elective orthopaedics, urology, burns and plastics, renal medicine, infectious diseases, oncology, haematology and respiratory medicine.

The City campus al