Medical Specialty Trainee in Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine (PICM)
| Posting date: | 17 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £63,152.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £63152.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 May 2024 |
| Location: | Reading, RG1 5AN |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9193-24-0464 |
Summary
Intensive Care Medicine The case mix is predominantly medical with trauma and surgical patients make up about 20%. Around 95% of our admissions are emergencies with the remainder being high-risk surgical cases including, colo-rectal, robotic urological procedures and cervical spinal surgery cases. There are about 80 paediatric admissions and stabilisations a year the vast majority of which are retrieved via the Southampton and Oxford Retrieval Team (SORT). The Trust is a tertiary referral cancer centre and includes all specialties except neurosurgery, transplant, vascular and cardiothoracic surgery. The trust has a primary coronary angioplasty service with the fastest door to needle times in the country as well as the fastest door to needle times for stroke thrombolysis. There is an excellent interventional radiology department staffed by five consultants. We also get excellent support from our microbiology department with daily ward rounds on the ICU. Anaesthesia section The successful candidate would join an enthusiastic and friendly anaesthetic department for six months of their placement. They will develop competence in assessing and managing a wide range of elective and emergency theatre cases under appropriate supervision. Surgical specialities delivered at RBH include orthopaedics, general surgery, urology (including robotic cases), ENT, dental, gynaecology and bariatrics. The trainee will have a named educational supervisor to ensure they get the most out of their time with us. The trainee will be encouraged and supported to complete quality improvement projects and will be supported to attend the teaching on offer e.g. monthly simulation and weekly teaching sessions. Research We have a strong urgent care research team running clinical trials across the ICU, ED and AMU. Dr Walden and Dr Keating run the Urgent Care research team of five research nurses and a research assistant