Senior Clinical Fellow in Intensive Care

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Main area Critical Care Grade NHS Medical & Dental:
Senior Clinical Fellow Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 40 hours per week Job
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Site Royal Preston Hospital Town Preston Salary £67,325 Basic per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 15/09/2026 23:59

An opportunity has arisen for a Senior Clinical Fellow to join our Intensive Care Unit (ICU) on a permanent basis.

Your work within the Critical Care Unit at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust will be based at Royal Preston Hospital (RPH) & you will also be expected to provide cross cover for our second site, Chorley & South Ribble District General Hospital (CDH).

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 21 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.

The post holder will:

• Specifically adopt, in conjunction with colleagues, an active role in the planning, development and delivery of the critical care services for the Directorate.
• Provide a Critical Care service across the Trust,
• Participate in the trainee critical care rota on both hospital sites with additional cover during colleagues’ absence.
• Assume a continuous commitment for the care of patients, even if employed less than fulltime 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.
• 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.

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