Senior Clinical Fellow Intensive Care Medicine Harefield Hospital

Harefield Hospital has 39 critical care beds, five theatres, four catheter labs supporting a busy primary PCI service, heart and lung transplantation and complex cardiothoracic surgery. As a transplant center, it specialises in all forms of mechanical circulatory support. At Harefield the post holder would be expected to manage the post op critical care of these patients, and be involved in the cardiogenic shock and eCPR program, and gain experience of VA ECMO, impella, ventricular assist devices as well as post operative management of heart and lung transplant recipients., This is a highly specialised post and would be ideally suited to an NTN holder in year 4 or 5 of their training (as out of programme experience) who wishes to pursue a career in cardiothoracic intensive care. The appointee should have a minimum of four months experience in cardiothoracic critical care, and consideration be given to other suitable candidates including those already in possession of their CCST or appropriately qualified overseas trainees.

Harefield Hospital (HH) is a regional centre for cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery, and an international centre for adult heart and heart-lung transplantation. It is one of a small number of UK cardiac centres assisting in development of implantable mechanical ventricular assist devices in the management of end-stage heart failure. It also provides a primary intervention service for acute coronary syndromes to selected Trusts and the London Ambulance Service, in outer West London and the Home Counties. It has approximately 1,185 staff, 180 beds with 5 operating theatres, and 4 catheter laboratories.

Job Purpose - To provide clinical services in adult cardiothoracic intensive care in accordance with clinical and legal requirements and in keeping with the international role of the Trust.