Applications are invited for Resident Airway Fellow posts in the Wessex Neurological Intensive Care Unit at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, to start August 2025. This post is for 6 months or 1 year. The post is suitable for those who wish to enhance their knowledge and clinical experience in neurocritical care and neuroanaesthesia and who have prior experience working in either of these areas and appropriate qualifications to do so.

The Neuro ICU is a 13-bed dedicated Neurological Intensive Care Unit. The Unit admits approximately 800 patients per annum, usually comprising in the region of: 300 severe neurological trauma injuries (brain and/or spinal injuries with complex polytrauma), 150 subarachnoid haemorrhages, 100 emergency neurosurgical cases, 200 elective neurosurgical cases, approximately 50 acute neurological cases (demyelinating polyneuropathies, autoimmune encephalitis etc) as well as some general medical and surgical cases.

The Resident Airway Fellow post holders participate in a 1 in 9 full shift “airway” rota. The post is well supported by dedicated Consultant input. The 13 Neuro ICU Consultants have varying backgrounds or interests in a number of fields: pre-hospital emergency medicine, trauma, aeromedical transfers, anaesthesia and neuro-anaesthesia, intensive care, general internal medicine, rehabilitation medicine, research and academia.