Senior Clinical Fellow in Critical Care Echo

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Clinical Fellow to join the Adult Critical Care Department as a Fellow in Critical Care Echocardiography commencing in August 2026.

Please note that only applicants with a minimum of 12 months substantive anaesthesia experience will be considered.

The purpose of the post is to learn how to perform echocardiography (echo) within the critical care department. The successful candidates would work with the ICU Echo Lead and cardiac physiologists to provide an echo service for the department, undertake echo related quality improvement, clinical governance, audit and research projects and assist with the departmental postgraduate echo education program.

This is an exciting and challenging post which will provide the post-holder with unrivalled clinical experience and many opportunities for portfolio development. The role occupies a central position in the Trusts' high class delivery of care and carries significant responsibility., This post is offered as a Fellowship in Critical Care Echocardiography for a period of one year with an option to extend to two years subject to satisfactory performance. The post is divided into two parts. 40% of the time the post holder will be working closely with cardiac physiologists to learn how to perform echocardiograms in order to provide a departmental echo service and working on echo related projects. The other 60% the post holder is required to work a full on-call system delivering clinical care for our critical care units and outreach services.

The candidates would be expected to gain FUSIC Heart accreditation within the first 4 months alongside either BSE Level 1 or FUSIC HD by 6 months. By the end of the year the candidates should be scanning at a BSE Level 2 standard and working towards completion of BSE Level 2, ACCE or EDEC. Subject to performance there would be an option to extend the placement to a second year in order to complete BSE L2/ACCE and/or EDEC accreditation.

The Critical Care department at GSTT has an international reputation for clinical excellence and a prominent research profile. As well as serving the local population we provide tertiary critical care to the region.

The critical care department comprises seven clinical areas and totals 70 beds at the St Thomas' site. There are 39 level 3 beds in the East Wing of the hospital (15 on EW1 ICU, 13 on EW2 ICU and 11 on EW6 ICU), an overnight intensive recovery unit (11 level 3 beds staffed by anaesthetists), a medical/surgical HDU on East Wing level 10 (15 level 2 beds) and cardiovascular surgical HDU (5 level 2 beds) on East Wing level 8. At the Guy's site, there are 13 level 2/3 beds on the Guys Critical Care Unit (GCCU).

Our case mix is challenging with a large proportion of complex medical and cardiothoracic patients. We manage a wide spectrum of medical and surgical emergencies.

We are one of the largest severe respiratory failure centres in Europe by case load. The severe respiratory failure service uses conventional ventilation techniques, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal.