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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

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Contact
- Address
- Trust Offices
- St Thomas' Street
- London
- SE1 9RT
- Contact Number
- 020 7188 7188
Senior Clinical Fellow in Severe Respiratory Failure (ECMO)
Closed for applications on: 21-Aug-2024 00:02
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 21-Aug-2024 00:02
Key details
Location
- Site
- St Thomas' Hospital
- Address
- Westminster Bridge Road
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SE1 7EH
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Fixed term: 6 months (in the first instance, extendable by mutual consent)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week (Plus additional hours based on work schedule)
Salary
- Salary
- £63,152 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Nodal Point 5)
Specialty
- Main area
- Critical Care
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
The critical care department at GSTT has an international reputation for clinical excellence and a prominent research profile. As well as serving the local population we provide tertiary critical care to the region. The units provide all modalities of multi-organ support and monitoring and use state-of-the-art technology, point-of-care testing and electronic prescribing.
The critical care directorate comprises six clinical areas and totals 75 beds at the St Thomas’ site. There are 39 level 3 beds in the East Wing of the hospital (15 on EW1 ICU, 13 on EW2 ICU and 11 on EW6 ICU), an overnight intensive recovery unit (11 level 3 beds staffed by anaesthetists), a medical HDU on East Wing level 10 (15 level 2 beds) and cardiovascular surgical HDU (10 level 2 beds) on East Wing level 8. At the Guy’s site, there are 13 level 2/3 beds on the Guys Critical Care Unit (GCCU).
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The fellow will provide direct clinical care and have non-clinical duties as part of the service.
Training in all aspects of advanced respiratory support will be provided. This will include but not be limited to conventional ventilation, including airway pressure release ventilation (APRV), ventilation in the prone position, and use of nitric oxide, ECMO and ECCO2R. Training will include theoretical sessions, water circuit training, high and low-fidelity simulation and bedside training.
- Clinical duties will include, but is not limited to:
- Participating in the clinical management of patients requiring, ECMO and ECCO2R.
- Preparing and presenting cases at the weekly SRF meeting, and coordinating and documenting discussions at the meeting
- Participating in the follow-up of patients who have received advanced respiratory support
- Participating in the retrieval of patients referred for severe respiratory failure assessment and support
- Contributing to the general clinical workload of the ICU, and acting as senior team leader on site out of hours, supporting more junior members of the team
- Non-clinical duties will include:
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- Updating the SRF database
- Contributing to audit projects related to severe respiratory failure
- Contributing to research related to severe respiratory failure
- Attendance at meetings related to the severe respiratory failure service and contributing to the development of the severe respiratory failure service.
Working for our organisation
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (GSTTFT) comprises five of the UK’s renowned hospitals: Guy’s; St Thomas’; Evelina London Children’s, Royal Brompton, and Harefield – as well as community services in the Lambeth and Southwark boroughs of London.
GSTTFT is among the UK’s busiest and most successful Trusts and provides a broad range of medical, surgical and maternal-obstetric specialities.
GSTTFT has a long history of clinical excellence, research and innovation and – as part of King’s Health Partners – is one of England’s eleven Academic Health Sciences Centres. These centres are partnerships between NHS organisations, universities, and research institutions, focused on integrating research, education, and clinical practice.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Other responsibilities
Clinical:
The post holder will, together with colleagues, be responsible for the provision of services to the Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust to include:
(a) Diagnosis and treatment of patients of the trust in such hospitals, health centres or clinics or other premises as required.
(b) Continuing clinical responsibility for the patients in your charge, allowing for all proper delegation to, and training of, your staff.
Training of junior staff:
The postholder will take responsibility for the training and direction of the multi-disciplinary staff allocated to him/her under the aegis of the training plan that that postholder has agreed with their supervising consultant.
Teaching:
The postholder will be expected to contribute as appropriate in the teaching of multi-disciplinary graduate and post graduate students.
Clinical Governance:
All medical and dental staff are expected to take part in clinical governance activity, including clinical audit, clinical guideline and protocol development and clinical risk management. They will be expected to produce evidence of their contribution in these areas and their audit of their own clinical work as part of their appraisal.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications/ Education
Essential criteria
- MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
- FRCA/MRCP/MRCS or equivalent qualification
Desirable criteria
- DICM/EDIC or equivalent qualification in intensive care medicine
Professional/ Statutory Registration
Essential criteria
- Eligible for full registration with the GMC at time of appointment
- Eligibility to work in the UK
Previous experience
Essential criteria
- Ability to provide a complete employment history with no unexplained career gaps
- Evidence that career progression is consistent with personal circumstances
- Evidence that present achievement and performance is commensurate with totality of period of training
- Minimum 18 months substantive experience in intensive care medicine
Desirable criteria
- Experience with advanced respiratory life support therapies
- Demonstrable research experience
- Demonstrable teaching experience
Skills/Knowledge/ Ability
Essential criteria
- Valid adult life support (ALS) certification
- Airway skills (minimum 12 months substantive anaesthesia) Inter-hospital ventilated patient retrieval skills
Desirable criteria
- 24 months substantive experience in anaesthesia
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dan Taylor
- Job title
- Consultant in Intensive Medicine
- Email address
- [email protected]
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