Trust Fellow Doctor in Critical Care Medicine (ICU)

Job summary

Are you looking for a career in Anaesthetics, Intensive Care, Acute Medicine or ACCS?

Do you want to gain experience in Critical Care Medicine?

Look no further, apply today!

We are recruiting one Trust Fellow Doctor in Critical Care Medicine to work on our ICU ward in Yeovil, in the South West of England. This post is available from 2nd August 2023 to 6th August 2024, in line with national rotation dates set by NHS Employers.

Benefits of this role:

• An Educational Supervisor and an Appraiser.
• You will gain experience in a wide range of ICU practical skills, and patient management.
• Ring fenced protected time on the rota for Training and Career Development.
• The rota is staffed in conjunction with other postgraduate doctors in training and clinical teaching fellow doctors.

Those interested in a career in anaesthetics, intensive care, acute medicine, ACCS, or emergency medicine, may find these posts of interest. The posts include a proportion of time ring-fenced for personal development and training. This is approximately 25% of the basic rota pattern. For anaesthetists, this can be time spent in theatre, in training or solo lists as desired, working at a level appropriate to their experience, in order to retain or gain anaesthetic skills. For non anaesthetists, this time can be spent in any part of the hospital where suitable training opportunities can be identified and agreed, in line with the doctor's career aspirations.

Main duties of the job

Care of patients on the ICU/HDU ward, managed together as one unit. The patients are predominantly emergency medical and surgical patients. The bulk of the case mix is conditions such as respiratory failure, pneumonia, COPD, sepsis, cardiovascular instability, cardiovascular failure, abdominal sepsis, post laparotomy care, multi-organ failure, acute renal failure, and impaired consciousness.

To undertake appropriate clinical procedures (with support, supervision and training as required) such as: tracheal intubation, rapid sequence induction of anesthesia, invasive and non-invasive mechanical ventilator support, chest drains, insertion of central venous (CVP) lines using ultrasound guidance.

Review of new and existing patients referred to the critical care service, under the the supervision of a consultant.

The post holder will be required to cover ICU/HDU during daytimes, evenings, nights and weekends, as detailed in the rota.

To participate in audits and current research projects. These are available through individual Consultants. Several research projects are in-progress on the unit.

To attend the active postgraduate programme with weekly lectures, radiology, medical and pathology meetings and medical unit presentations.

To contribute to the active journal club. There are 'bleep-free' obligatory sessions for teaching and these are part of the weekly timetable.

To participate in the teaching of Foundation Doctors at the bedside as well as to Medical Students.

About us

Our ICU unit consists of 11 beds, which are used flexibly as a combination of 5 intensive care (ICU) beds and 6 high dependency (HDU) beds. The critical care Trust Fellows will report to the consultant anesthetist / intensivist who is on duty for the critical care unit. There are two specialty doctor anesthetists resident in the hospital 24 hours per day (working in theatres and obstetric theatres), who will support the Trust Fellows with emergency procedures as needed.

Yeovil District Hospital and Musgrove Park Hospital (Somerset NHS Foundation Trust) are currently in the process of merging to become one single Trust, offering combined health care service to the population of Somerset. Our aim is to offer harmonious patient and workforce experiences across both sites, offering the same standard of care to our patients.

Come and work in a friendly environment and live in the beautiful South West of England. We have outstanding schools, spectacular countryside, excellent travel links to major cities and airports, as well as the beautiful Jurassic Coastline 45 minutes away.

Yeovil Hospital's iCARE model, which has established the principles of exemplary patient care, patient and employee experience, has attracted national interest and is embedded in everything we do, following our vision to care for our patients as if they are one of our family. The Trust's shared vision has led to our staff rating Yeovil Hospital the best in England for employee health and wellbeing.