Clinical Fellow

Barts Health NHS Trust

Cardiovascular Clinical Academic Group

9 x Clinical Fellow (ST5+Level) in Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Critical Care

We are recruiting up to nine Clinical Fellows (ST5+ or equivalent) in Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Cardiothoracic Critical Care.

This is a unique opportunity to be a part of the UK’s premier cardiac centre - Barts Heart Centre. The Barts Heart Centre (BHC) is a new venture formed by the merging of cardiothoracic services from the London Chest Hospital, St Bartholomew’s Hospital and the Heart Hospital. This has created the UK’s largest cardiothoracic centre with nearly all specialist cardiac services for north central and north east London and beyond, as well as highly specialised national services, brought together in the newly built hospital on the St Bartholomew’s site.

Clinical Fellow ( ST5+ Level) in Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Critical Care

Intermediate Training Level

The workload would be split between time spent in the cardiothoracic critical care units and operating theatres and cath labs and would involve all aspects of perioperative care of the cardiothoracic surgical and cardiology patient.

On call commitment would be as resident on one of the two CICUs working as part of a full shift, 9 person rota complaint with both EWTD and 2016 UK junior doctor contract guidelines.

These fellows will be appointed to the anaesthetic department and will be accountable to the clinical director of the department. Clinical and educational supervisors will be allocated on commencement of the job.

Barts Heart Centre has 10 operating theatres, 10 catheter labs and over 250 cardiac, vascular and thoracic beds, creating one of Europe’s largest Cardiothoracic Centres. The new hospital contains 58 critical care beds. 2 ICUs and 1 HDU comprising 42 beds form the surgical cardiothoracic surgical critical care unit, adjacent to theatres. A fourth ICU of 16 beds on the 6thfloor provides dedicated General ICU, admitting complex cardiac patients, together with cardiology and respiratory patients in addition to patients suffering from haematological disease. Patients in critical care are cared for with all types of organ support including extracorporeal respiratory and cardiovascular support (ECMO).

Full GMC registration with a license to practise is required.

Joining forces with other partners in an Academic Health Science System will mean that staff would be better able to secure funds and pool their talents to develop new technology, techniques and treatments.

The Cardiothoracic Unit was opened in May 2015. It is one of the biggest cardiothoracic units in Europe, created by combining the clinical services which were located at the London Chest Hospital, St Bartholomew's Hospital and the Heart Hospital, together with related academic activities at UCL and QMUL, on a single site, within the new hospital at St. Bartholomew's.

Barts Health is an active partner in the UK’s biggest academic health sciences network, UCLP.

There are 9 senior fellows in cardiothoracic anaesthesia mostly in their advanced training year or undertaking post-CCT fellowships; 14 rotational anaesthetic registrars, 4 clinical fellows (ST grade) and a further 9 clinical fellows or ICM trainees covering the GICU.

There are 16 junior doctors (SHO level) across the various ICUs, half of these are rotational internal medical trainees and half are made up by junior fellows.

We are planning to recruit two advanced critical care practitioners (ACCP) at the beginning of 2021 to help with the most junior tier of trainees.

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