Job summary
- Main area
- Critical Care
- Grade
- NHS Medical and Dental: Specialty Trainee
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Planned split between ICU and A+E)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week (Nights weekends)
- Job ref
- 193-MS2290UCG
- Employer
- Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Berkshire NHS Trust
- Town
- Reading
- Salary
- £55,355 - £77,348 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/11/2026 08:00
Employer heading
Critical Care Clinical Research Fellow
NHS Medical and Dental: Specialty Trainee
At the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust we put our patients at the heart of every element of health and care that we provide. The Trust works together as a community to deliver its vision which is “Working together to provide outstanding care for our community.”
Royal Berkshire Hospital are pleased to announce that following our CQC inspection we have been rated ‘Good’ with inspectors reporting that we have made significant improvements. The Trust’s overall rating has also improved to ‘good’.
We are Compassionate in our thoughts, words and actions
We are Aspirational and have a true desire to be dynamic and to innovate
We are Resourceful and responsible in the way we work and live
We are Excellent in our development, fairness and sharing best practice
At the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, we value candidates who bring their unique personalities, skills, and experiences to the Trust. When completing your application, we encourage you to highlight your individual achievements and strengths, showing us how they align with the requirements outlined in the job description and person specification. While we recognise that some applicants may use AI tools during the process, please be mindful that AI-generated responses can often lack the personal detail and relevance needed to demonstrate your suitability for the role. AI generated content is discouraged by the Trust and may diminish the candidates chances of success.
Amazing things happen at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust; delivered by amazing people so why don’t you come and join us. We offer a range of learning and development for all employees may you be clinical or non-clinical.
Please note: all vacancies automatically close when 50 applications have been received.
Job overview
This 6, 12 or 18 month post offers candidates the opportunity to gain experience in Intensive Care Medicine (ICM) within a busy District General Hospital. Accreditation as the University Department of Critical Care Medicine was awarded in 2022 and in parallel with exceptional clinical experience, this post will also offer the exciting opportunity for dedicated clinical research time.
Main duties of the job
This job would be ideally suited to individuals who are committed to or strongly considering a career in ICM or a related acute speciality, and who are hoping to develop an ongoing interest in clinical research. It would also be appropriate for Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FICM) trainees seeking their special skills Stage 2 training with appropriate prospective approval. Some experience of ICM is strongly desirable.
The clinical training programme is outcomes-based and follows the curriculum developed by FICM. This is described in detail in FICM’s guidance on outcome-based training and assessment (http://www.ficm.ac.uk).
Working for our organisation
Our ICU has recently been rated ‘Outstanding’ for patient care by the CQC and the Trust overall has a ‘Good’ rating. The unit currently admits nearly 1100 level 2 and level 3 patients per year into 23 beds. The case mix is predominantly medical with trauma and surgical patients making up about 20%. Around 90% of our admissions are emergencies with the remainder being high risk surgical cases including, colorectal & urological procedures. There are about 60 paediatric admissions and stabilisations a year, the vast majority of which are retrieved via the Southampton and Oxford Retrieval Team (SORT), but some remain for the initial stages of their stabilisation and treatment. The Trust is a tertiary referral cancer centre and includes all specialties except neurosurgery, transplant, vascular and cardiothoracic surgery. The trust has a primary coronary angioplasty service with the fastest door to needle times in the country as well as the fastest door to needle times for stroke thrombolysis. There is an excellent interventional radiology department with 24-hour service provision and frequent close working with ICU. We also receive excellent support from our microbiology department with daily ward rounds on the ICU.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Objectives of the fellowship would include:
- Participate in provision of ICM within the department at a resident doctor level at a level appropriate to the candidate’s experience
- Undertake the NIHR Associate Principal Investigator programme
- Support recruitment to and data collection for ongoing studies within the ICU
- Attend Urgent Care research committee meetings
Be involved in the management and co-ordination of studies within the ICU
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- GMC registration
Desirable criteria
- MCEM / MRCP / FRCA or equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
- Provider status in one of the following: ALS, ATLS, or APLS
Desirable criteria
- Post registration experience of working in other specialties relevant to emergency medicine, intensive care medicine, acute medicine or anaesthesia
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Joshua Moorhouse
- Job title
- ICM / Anaesthetics Consultant
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01183227249
- Additional information
Dr M Raffles
Paediatric lead and College tutor
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