ITU Senior Clinical Fellow

Job summary

The Senior Clinical Fellow post has been designed to permit the successful candidate to develop and maintain skills mainly in Critical care. It is the expectation that the vast majority of the successful candidate's on-call sessions will be delivered on the Critical Care resident on-call rota. Daytime sessions will be mainly on the Critical Care Department with the option of some sessions in Theatres if service allows. Candidates have to have completed initial obstetric competencies. This post is for 6 months initially with 6 month extension based on performance.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be expected to participate fully in the SpR and ST educational programme, and in clinical governance activities. Since the post also involves emergency duties, the applicant will need to be experienced in the resuscitation, stabilization and transfer of patients to our regional tertiary referral centers.

About us

Based in the North East of England we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care centre and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead.

Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and since then have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients.

We now employ around 4,800 staff and currently provide 444 hospital beds across the Gateshead region.

Our values should be the 'golden thread' which runs through everything we do - they are the core of who we are. Our five values can easily be remembered by the simple acronymICORE; Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement.

We have a number of staff networks including the Global Ethnic Majority (GEM) network, D-Ability network, LGBTQ+ Network and the Women's Network, to challenge us and help us to constantly improve. Our Armed Forces network is one of our emerging networks.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is one of our highest priorities, and we offer a range of support and initiatives as part of our 'Balance' programme balancegateshead.com to cater for our diverse workforce, so that your individual needs can be supported, allowing you a happy and healthy working experience with us.