Senior Clinical Fellow in Intensive Care and Anaesthesia

Job summary

Interviews are due to take place on 21st December 2023.

You are warmly invited to apply for one of our Senior Clinical Fellow posts. The post is to start in February 2024.

The successful candidate will partake in the same on call rota as the anaesthetic and intensive care trainees. On calls will take place in intensive care. However when not on call, the Fellow can choose to join educational activities in Intensive Care or Anaesthetics and Theatres. More bespoke options such as teaching, research, leadership or wellbeing Fellowships can be explored on an individual basis and enquiries are welcomed.

We provide a wide range of training opportunities making these posts ideal for doctors hoping to enter specialty training at stage 2 or apply for CESR.

N.B. We reserve the right to close a vacancy before the closing date if we receive a high volume of applications or if there has been a change in organisational priorities.

Main duties of the job

The Clinical Fellow will follow the same training pattern as the rotational trainees. The successful candidate will join a dynamic and forward thinking department with a reputation for research and education.

There are two critical care units which when combined, provide care for up to 36 level 3 patients. The Critical Care Units manage over 1600 admissions per year.

The Trust delivers perioperative care to around 44,000 elective and emergency patients, as well as providing a specialist chronic pain management service. UHCW is the Major Trauma centre for the Central England Trauma Network and offers tertiary surgical services to upper gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary surgery, bariatric surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, neuro-coiling and neurosurgery, vascular surgery, major head and neck surgery, trauma and orthopaedics, urology including robotic surgery, gynaecology, renal transplant, ophthalmic surgery and plastic surgery.

The Trust has a large Obstetric Unit undertaking about 6,000 deliveries per year, with a 25% caesarean section rate and an 18% epidural rate. We also anaesthetise about 3,000 children per year.

About us

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK.

We are extremely proud of our skilled employees across our hospital sites in Coventry and Rugby, with high quality patient care positioned at the heart of everything we do.

Boasting some of the most modern facilities in Western Europe, the Trust is renowned for being at the forefront of research and innovation as part of its blossoming reputation as a national and international leader in healthcare.

By joining our exciting journey, you will form part of a passionate, talented team and will be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities.

There has never been a better time to join our team.