Clinical Fellow in Critical Care
The two units admit approximately 1,500 patients a year. We support elective surgical services including Upper GI resection work, head and neck cancer services, three counties Gynae-Oncology services, a busy vascular unit. We have a busy medical admissions workload supporting all specialities including interventional cardiology, haematology, oncology, respiratory and renal medicine.
We have the greatest number of paediatric admissions outside of PICU in the South West with between 40 and 50 admissions per year. We pride ourselves on our MDT approach to patient care and the flat hierarchy within our units. We have the support of an excellent outreach team across both our sites and we work closely together to ensure the best patient care.
Gloucestershire Critical Care department is a dynamic, hard-working unit that delivers excellent outcomes for our patients and is a fantastic place to work, learn and contribute. Clinical responsibilities Provide care to Critical Care patients Reviewing Critical Care referrals from throughout the hospital Support the provision of an on-call rota in a 1:8 frequency Support the MDT on Critical Care Participate in shared decision making for ongoing management of Critical Care patients Take part in audit Assist in recruitment to ongoing research projects Education and training While these posts are not educationally approved nor recognised by the Royal College for training purposes, they are educationally sound and well supported.
The department offers weekly formal teaching sessions on Friday afternoons to which all staff are encouraged to attend. Continuing professional development The department encourages post holders to take part in audit, Quality Improvement (QI) activity on the units.In addition, the department is active in recruiting to several ongoing research projects and opportunities to take part including taking on the role of associate Principal Investigator are encouraged. Clinical Governance The department of Critical Care has robust Clinical governance processes with a monthly CG meeting and two monthly mortality and morbidity review.