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Paediatric Critical Care & Palliative Care Senior Clinical Fellow

Job details
Posting date: 15 April 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £63,152 0
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 15 May 2024
Location: Oxford, OX3 9DU
Company: Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Job type: Contract
Job reference: 6183050/321-NOTS-MS-6183050-S6

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Summary

A Vacancy at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.


We are pleased to offer a 12 months fellowship scheme at Oxford University Hospitals Paediatric Critical Care and Helen & Douglas House that will include work across both services. This fellowship is aimed at clinician with considerable experience in critical care medicine who have an interest in palliative care medicine which they would like to develop further.

The successful applicant will spend most of their “in hours” work supporting palliative care provision across OUH PCC and Helen & Douglas House. The “out of hours” commitment will be spent as a senior Paediatric Critical Care fellow with a primary responsibility to retrieval medicine.

The successful applicant will work under the supervision of a team of consultants in the Paediatric Critical Care Medicine and Palliative Care Medicine. It is also expected that a successful applicant will take part in an agreed project strengthening the link between OUH PCC and Helen & Douglas House. This can include outreach education, quality improvement or guideline development.

On Call work

Retrieval fellow shifts are 13 hours long – Day shifts are 8am until 9pm and night shifts are 8pm until 9am. The post holder will undertake their on call commitments either as night shifts during the week or as either day or night shifts during weekends

The Paediatric Critical Care (PCC) departments at Oxford University Hospital (OUH), Oxford, UK invite applications for Paediatric Critical Care and Palliative Care Medicine Fellowship.



Clinical Fellow (ST5-ST8) posts in Paediatric Critical Care and Retrieval Medicine



Posts commencing from August / Sept 2024

Fixed Term posts lasting 12 months

We are pleased to offer a 12 months fellowship scheme at Oxford University Hospitals Paediatric Critical Care and Helen & Douglas House that will include work across both services. This fellowship is aimed at clinician with considerable experience in critical care medicine who have an interest in palliative care medicine which they would like to develop further.

The successful applicant will spend most of their “in hours” work with the palliative care team supporting activity across OUH PCC and Helen and Douglas House. The “out of hours” commitment will be spent as a senior Paediatric Critical Care fellow with a primary responsibility to retrieval medicine.

The successful applicant will work under the supervision of a team of consultants in the Paediatric Critical Care Medicine and Palliative Care Medicine. It is also expected that a successful applicant will take part in an agreed project strengthening the link between OUH PCC and Helen & Douglas House. This can include outreach education, quality improvement or guideline development.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.

The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

Summary of the Role’s Main Purpose:
• To work in Paediatric Critical Care at OUH to support and improve the provision of palliative care planning and symptom management to the benefit of our patients.
• To participate in PICU out-of-hours and retrieval service rotas
• To work alongside paediatric colleagues at Helen and Douglas House (HDH), OUH Trust and regional hospitals, children’s community services and other partner children’s hospice services as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide the highest possible standard of care, in the setting most appropriate to their needs.
• To develop skills in providing Paediatric Palliative Care to children and families across the region with consultant support and mentorship.
• To further enhance the links and shared working practices between Paediatric Intensive Care Unit and Paediatric Palliative Care through caring for patients across both settings, and contributing to education/training needs analysis and delivery and processes/patient & family journey through settings (CCCG)
• To participate in the Clinical Ethics Advisory Group, at a level appropriate to the applicant, initially as an observer



Key working relationships:
• Medical and outreach nursing children’s palliative care team serving the palliative care needs of children across Berkshire, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire (BOB) based at Helen and Douglas House Hospice (HDH) – team member.
• Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) based at the John Radcliffe Hospital – senior registrar-level team member.
• SORT (Southampton & Oxford Retrieval Service) – senior registrar-level team member
• Clinical Ethics Advisory Group for Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust
• Compassionate Collaborative Care Group (CCCG - OUH/HDH training, education and processes around palliative patients)




This advert closes on Monday 6 May 2024

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