The Trust seeks to appoint a Clinical Fellow in Critical Care. This is a 1-year fixed-term post, and applicants are expected to have suitable experience in Critical Care.
You will join a dynamic team of doctors within the division of Anaesthesia at BHRUT, which provides anaesthetic, critical care, and pain management services for the local population. These services include elective and emergency anaesthesia supporting various surgical specialties, a consultant-led critical care outreach team, acute pain ward rounds, outpatient clinics for chronic pain, anaesthetic pre-assessment, and critical care follow-up.
BHR is one of the largest Associate Teaching Hospitals, serving over 700,000 people across two main sites—Queens and King George Hospitals—as well as peripheral sites at Barking, Dagenham, and Brentwood. The hospital is a major Neurosciences centre and is expanding as a tertiary referral centre for North East London and Essex, with additional critical care capacity. It is also a major cancer centre, actively expanding its services.
The job advert will close early if sufficient applications are received.
Main duties of the job
Contribute to providing a high-quality, responsive critical care service to Barking, Havering, and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust. Responsibilities include caring for patients in the ITUs and HDUs at Queen's Hospital and/or King George Hospital, reviewing patients, initiating critical care treatment in A&E, theatre recovery, and ward areas, and transferring patients intra- and inter-hospital.
Please see the attached job description and person specification.
About us
We are an organisation committed to continuous improvement, delivering care we are proud of, and ensuring patient satisfaction. We have recently expanded with new theatres at our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital, and our CEO was named top CEO by the Health Service Journal in 2024. Our main sites are KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford, with busy emergency departments serving over 330,000 visitors annually. We are working to transform the A&E at Queen's with a £35m investment, and our services include Women's Health, Ageing Well Centre, and Community Diagnostic Centres providing extensive imaging services. Our staff are diverse, committed, and benefit from flexible working options and apprenticeship programs. We are also introducing an electronic patient record system to improve care and staff workflow.
Job description
Job responsibilities
1. Comply with the agreed job plan, reviewed annually.
2. Participate in emergency out-of-hours resident on-call cover for critical care medicine.
3. Contribute to postgraduate and continuing education for medical, nursing, technical staff, GPs, and allied professions.
4. Deputise in the absence of departmental colleagues during leave or short-term sickness.
5. Contribute to clinical audit processes within the Trust and regionally, in collaboration with the Audit Committee.
Please see the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Qualification
* MBBS or equivalent
* Completed at least 3 years of training in Anaesthesia or ITU
* Ability to practice Anaesthesia in general specialties, including high-risk procedures
* Full registration with the General Medical Council
Desirable
* Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP)
* Evidence of Anaesthesia audits
* Broad experience in general Anaesthesia and analgesia
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