Job summary
Working Full Time: 40 Hours Per Week
JUNIOR FELLOW - CRITICAL CARE- ( ST1/2 Level or Equivalent)
Post start 5th February 2025 (6 month post)
Salary as per the 2016 New Junior Doctor Terms & Conditions in addition you will be paid additional pay elements as per the Rota.
These exciting posts (first appointed in August 2014) are for doctors to gain Critical Care experience in a range of aspects of the care of patients from the community or from within the hospital. The posts will offer candidates from the UK or from further abroad a unique opportunity to consolidate their experience in a busy and supportive NHS foundation hospital and provide a stepping-stone to the next level of clinical experience.
Junior Fellows in Critical care will participate on a 9 person full shift rota covering Critical Care including nights and weekends with compensatory days off following on-call periods.
This is not an educationally approved post however the post-holder will have educational teaching, learning and assessment equivalent to those on National Training Programmes.
Main duties of the job
The Junior Fellow will be part of the Critical Care/Anaesthesia Team and will be professionally and personally responsible for ensuring that their clinical practice is, at all times, of the highest quality. They will be expected to be supportive of and play their part in the work and commitments of the team, ensuring that at all times they put patients and their safety at the centre of their practice.
They will be required to act professionally and respect the values of the Countess of Chester Hospital (see appendix on Trust values).
The duties will involve the day to day care of the level 2 & 3 patients under the supervision of a consultant, this will include daily reviews as well as practical procedures including intubation, vascular access, ventilation (including complex modes), procedural ultrasound, assessment of critically ill patients, use of invasive monitoring and percutaneous tracheostomy.
The appointee will be directly accountable to the Lead clinician in critical care.
The appointee will be expected to undertake continuing medical education, continuing professional development and participate in audit/research.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Skills
Essential
* A Medical degree or Diploma, acceptable to the General Medical Council.
* Evidence of achievement of Foundation year competences as per UKFPO affiliated Foundation Programme or equivalent by time of appointment in line with GMC standards/ Good Medical Practice.
* In date ALS.
Desirable
* Additional degree or post-graduate medical qualifications, or parts thereof.
* ATLS, APLS.
* Instructor Potential or above in any Life Support course.
Clinical Experience and Effectiveness
Essential
* Experience of working within the NHS.
* Evidence that career progression is consistent with years since graduation in medicine.
* Evidence that present achievement and performance is commensurate with Good Medical Practice.
Desirable
* Experience of audit or research.
* Experience in anaesthesia.
* Experience in intensive care medicine.
* Evidence of Clinical Capability in assessment of the acutely unwell patient.
Registration
Essential
* Full registration with the GMC at time of appointment and hold a current licence to practice.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.
Employer details
Employer name
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Countess of Chester Hospital
Liverpool Road
Chester
CH2 1UL
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