Senior Clinical Fellows in Adult Critical Care with Research

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Clinical Fellow in Adult Critical Care with Research

The closing date is 06 November 2025

Minimum requirement: Registrar level or equivalent or post completion of core training in Anaesthesia, Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine Training, any of the Acute Care Common Stems or Surgery.

Full time appointments available now, February 2026 and August 2026.

Prior experience of the UK Healthcare System is desirable, and GMC registration is essential (unless applying for sponsorship).

All queries to be directed to Recruitment Lead: Dr David Smith: .

Due to the high volumes of applications we receive for certain posts, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the published closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications. After the closing date we strongly advise you check the email account which is registered. If you have not heard from us within four weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted.

Main duties of the job

St George's Hospital is the primary teaching hospital in South West London and provides all of the tertiary specialities. The St George's Adult Critical Care Directorate has 60 Critical Care beds across three Critical Care Units: General Intensive Care (GICU), Neuro Intensive Care (NICU) and Cardiothoracic Intensive Care (CTICU). This is an extremely exciting time for the Directorate with the construction of a new 20 bed adult ICU currently underway. Successful candidates will work across one or more of these units during their period of employment at St George's and where possible we will accommodate specific unit preferences.

We can accommodate experienced trainees/clinical fellows looking to broaden their experience (including subspecialty experience in Cardiothoracic or Neuro Intensive Care) as well as more junior clinical fellows but with a minimum requirement of Registrar level or equivalent or post completion of core training in Anaesthesia, Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine Training, any of the Acute Care Common Stems or Surgery.

Duties and responsibilities will be commensurate with the individual candidate's experience and are overseen by consultant intensivists at all times. The experience gained will be beneficial to trainees wishing to pursue a wide variety of career aims.

Successful candidates for this post will be scored at interview and offered in turn, depending on availability their first choice of rotation.

About us

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people. A Major Trauma Centre complete with Helipad St George's featured for as the main hospital in the acclaimed Channel 4 documentary programme "24 Hours in A&E" for 23 seasons.

The trust also covers a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state of the art Endoscopy Training Centre.

Our main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains Medical Students and carries out advanced Medical Research. The Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of Healthcare Professionals from across the region.

As well as acute hospital services, we provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to attached job description for person specification.

This job description is not an exhaustive document but is a reflection of the current position. Details and emphasis may change in line with service needs after consultation with the post holder.

Person Specification Qualifications and Training

• Medical Degree
• Full GMC registration
• Registrar level or equivalent or post completion of core training in Anaesthesia, Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine Training, any of the Acute Care Common Stems or Surgery.
• MRCP/FRCA/MRCS/MRCEM
• Previous NHS experience

Other

• Ability to manage priorities and work within a team
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Non technical skills training
• Management course
• Clear career aim

Knowledge

• Knowledge appropriate to the role of senior doctor on intensive care

Skills

• Ability to communicate effectively in all situations
• Skills appropriate for a senior doctor in intensive care including advanced airway management
• ALS or CALS qualification within 4 years.
• Completed QIP or audit in intensive care
• Evidence of activity in research or teaching
• Intensive care related course, conference
• Experience of advanced airway management eg IAC

Experience

• At least 6 months experience in intensive care medicine
• Ability to take responsibility for assessment and clinical care of patients
• Experience of NHS or similar healthcare system
• Experience in cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, neurology or neurosurgery
• Experience in anaesthesia, medicine or surgery
• Previous experience on a senior tier ICU rota

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Address

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust