Clinical Fellow ST1 / 2 Level in Critical Care

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.

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. Applicants for these posts must hold a medical degree from an institution recognised by the GMC. They must have full GMC registration and a licence to practise. Applicants must have NHS experience and be able to demonstrate an ability to communicate in English in a clinical environment.

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:

• The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds
• Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility
• Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.
The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000. The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.