Junior Clinical Fellow in Intensive Care

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Main area Critical Care Grade NHS Medical & Dental:
Local Appointment nodal point MT03 Contract Fixed term: 6 months (Full Time) Hours Full time - 40 hours per week Job
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Site RPH Town Preston Salary £54,499 pro rata based on 6 months contract Salary period Yearly Closing 09/09/2026 23:59

Opportunities have arisen for a Junior Clinical Fellow to join our Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

Your work within the Critical Care Unit at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust will be based at Royal Preston Hospital (RPH).

There is a 34-beded critical care unit admitting over 1300 patients per year at Royal Preston Hospital, this is a mixed unit made up of level 2 & 3 beds. It has a varied case mix including General Medicine, General Surgery, Trauma, Vascular, Renal Neurosciences, Upper-Gastrointestinal and Maxillofacial Surgery.

There's also an Enhanced Care Unit at Chorley and South Ribble Hospital run by 20 Consultants with an interest in Intensive Care, along with junior support staff.

The unit at Preston has accreditations for all stages of Intensive Care Medicine training.

The Department has undergone a period of rapid expansion, which is reflected in the age and attitude of its career grade members.

This is a fixed-term post for 6 months due to short-term funding.

• Provide a Critical Care service at Royal Preston
• Participate in the trainee critical care rota with additional cover during colleagues’ absence.
• Assume a continuous commitment for the care of patients, even if employed less than full-time and ensure, in consultation with colleagues, that adequate arrangements are made for leave and off duty periods
• Promote high professional standards of clinical care for patients, both through direct patient care and by the maintenance of continuing professional development.
• Exercise the freedom to develop specialist elements of the services to reflect perceived priorities within available resources.
• Provide care to critically ill patients across and participate in the on call rota for RPH site.
• Undertake administrative duties involved with the care of his/her patients.
• Promote high professional standards of clinical care of patients and the health and safety of the theatre environment.
• Maintain continuing education and professional development at least to the requirements of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine

At Lancashire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, we aim to provide outstanding healthcare for our local communities, together with the highest standard of specialised services for patients in Lancashire and South Cumbria.

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