Clinical Fellow in Retrieval Medicine Access

Overview

We are pleased to introduce the Adult Critical Care Emergency Support Service (ACCESS) Fellowship, an opportunity that seamlessly integrates 0.85 clinical operational delivery and 0.15 personal and professional development, ensuring a balanced and enriching experience for candidates seeking to advance their career in the field of transfer medicine.

The average working hours over a 12‑week rota will not exceed 48 per week. This post is for 6 to 12 months.

• Collaborate with your designated clinical supervisor to shape a tailored development plan, including project assignments, pioneering research endeavours, and postgraduate education ventures.
• Champion the safe and efficient transfer of critically unwell patients across hospitals, streamlining practices, education, transfer operations, and governance within a single service.
• Contribute to the repatriation of patients back to their local Intensive Care units across the country.

ACCESS is the London regional adult critical care transfer service committed to ensuring the secure, reliable, compassionate, and proficient transfer of critically ill patients throughout the capital. Our operations are carried out in collaboration with the London Ambulance Service NHS Trust (LAS), the London integrated commissioning boards and associated critical care networks to provide a transfer service for critically ill patients throughout London 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

Transfer teams are currently operational within the four geographical sectors of London, operating under the oversight of Barts Health as the host trust. Successful candidates will have the opportunity to work in any of the four geographical sectors, based on their individual requirements, objectives, and preferences. The ACCESS Team includes one transfer doctor, one transfer practitioner, and two LAS crew, all led by two Duty Consultants who provide close support and expertise each day.

Opportunities to work in any of the four geographical sectors of London; collaboration with London Ambulance Service NHS Trust; consideration of 50/50 job share opportunities within their Intensive Care Units and ACCESS for shortlisted candidates; flexibility to defer start date.

We are recruiting on a rolling 12‑month recruitment basis, so if you are looking to defer your start date to later in the year, there will be flexibility to consider such request. This.