QEHB Senior Clinical Fellows in Intensive Care Medicine

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QEHB Senior Clinical Fellows in Intensive Care Medicine

The closing date is 15 February 2026

Applications are invited for Locally Employed Doctors to work at Higher level in Intensive Care Medicine across various Fellowships based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham. These are fixed term contracts with 6-12 month posts available and grade/salary will depend on experience. Please note these are not recognised training posts but similar opportunities to a training post will be provided, according to the education and development needs of the successful applicant.

The post-holder will be locally employed by the Trust. There are ample opportunities for learning, such as regular departmental education sessions, consultant supervision and mentorship, and also quality improvement, research and teaching opportunities will be provided at an equivalence to ICM Registrar (StR 4-5+) (though note that the post is not a formally recognised training post).

Non-training posts within our trust are often termed Locally Employed Doctor (LED) roles - in this nomenclature this is a LED-Higher role.

Successful applicants are required to participate in a 1:8 on-call rota (see template rota below) covering an Intensive Care Unit Area, the Area depending on the balance of local competency requirements and the clinical/educational interests of the candidate, in the context of ICU service requirements.

There will be the option to gain specific sub-specialty experience during normal working days sessions depending on clinical or educational interests. Please discuss any particular interests prior to interview.

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people.

As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.

Potential options include:

• Liver Critical Care Fellowship

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham has one of the two largest adult liver transplant programmes in the UK, completing on average over 200 transplants per annum over the last 10 years, and incorporating innovations such as machine perfusion of donor livers. In addition to valuable experience in general intensive care, Fellows will also gain experience in general hepatology, acute liver failure (including support with plasma exchange), acute-on-chronic liver failure, and post-operative care of the hepatobiliary and liver transplant surgical patient.

They will attend liver transplant listing meetings and MDTs, Morbidity and Mortality meetings and can experience transplant surgery and anaesthesia. In addition to Critical Care teaching, there is weekly hepatology teaching. There is an active research programme in liver critical care and across all liver specialties.

• Neurocritical care Fellowship

Clinical experience on the critical care unit will include ischaemic and haemorrhagic stroke (including mechanical thrombectomy), subarachnoid and intraventricular haemorrhage, status epilepticus, neuromuscular disorders, complex weaning and traumatic brain injury with advanced neuro-monitoring techniques, as well as care of the patient post-complex neuro and spinal surgery.

To obtain these competencies fellows will rotate through general, trauma and burns in addition to neuro critical care. To obtain additional specific neuro critical care skills they can attend sessions with neuro-radiology, interventional neuro-radiology, neurophysiology and neuro rehabilitation consultants.

• Trauma and Burns Critical Care Fellowship

The QEHB is a regional Burns centre, with 2 dedicated burns shock rooms within critical care. We are a Major Trauma Centre with over 500 trauma admissions to the critical care unit per annum. As part of the clinical team, you will gain experience of trauma care throughout the continuum of the patient pathway- from arrival in the ED, through theatre and critical care to rehabilitation, providing critical emergency care to the wide range of the patients.

Several of the Consultant intensivists have an interest in pre-hospital trauma care, and you will have the opportunity to work alongside ED trauma physicians, trauma anaesthetists, trauma intensivists, as well as military personnel from the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine. There are weekly Major Trauma and…