Locum Consultant Paediatric Intensivist | The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 21 Awst 2024 |
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Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £105,504 - £139,882 per annum pro rata |
Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
Dyddiad cau: | 20 Medi 2024 |
Lleoliad: | Newcastle upon Tyne, NE7 7DN |
Cwmni: | The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
Cyfeirnod swydd: | 6585148/317-LCON-24-200 |
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We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team.
Working in a team of paediatric intensivists across the two units, the successful candidate will play an important role in the day-to-day running and wider development of a state-of-the-art paediatric critical care service that operates as the regional hub, serving several District General Hospitals.
This post will include clinical responsibilities across both units, including consultant of the week and on call responsibilities. There will also be appropriate SPA time and the ability to develop personal interests within the units.
Candidates must possess MRCPCH, FRCA or equivalent and show evidence of training and experience in Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine, including experience in ECMO, mechanical support for heart failure and cardiac transplantation.
In addition to the challenges of the role, we can offer you a commitment to teaching, education, research and audit.
Candidates for the post must be registered medical practitioners and on, or eligible to join, the Specialist Register within six months of the date of the Appointments Committee.
Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.
The Great North Children’s Hospital (GNCH) is based on the Royal Victoria Infirmary site. GNCH is one of twelve national tertiary centres and has international expertise in immunology and oncology. GNCH Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) is the lead general critical care unit for the Northern Region.
The Cardiothoracic PICU at the Freeman Hospital offers the full range of paediatric cardiac and thoracic services, including ECMO and heart and lung transplantation.
The division of commitment is half time across the 2 PICUs in the Trust.
For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: Dr Liz Day, Interim Clinical Lead GNCH PICU, on 0191 2821881 or elisabeth.day3@nhs.net, or Dr Yamuna Thiru, Clinical Lead, FRH PICU on 0191 2448374 or Yamuna.thiru@nhs.net
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Clinical:
• Contribute to the day to day running of the FRH Paediatric Cardiac Intensive Care and the GNCH Paediatric Intensive Care Units
• Contribute to cardiac and general PICU on-call rota
o Responsibility for the paediatric intensive care unit including managing referrals and new admissions
o Participate in advice on and retrieval of critically ill children via NECTAR when required
o Provide remote advice in the management of acutely ill children at the DGHs within the region.
o Provide decision support for patient transfers within the region facilitated by NECTAR.
• Contribute to NECTAR on-call rota
o Deliver and supervise transfer of critically ill children
o Provide remote advice in the management of acutely ill children in their local hospital
• The FH paediatric intensive care has 12 beds and 6 HDU beds. You would be working with the intensive care team to provide consultant led care for our patients. We provide a full range of intensive care support including ECMO (VA and VV) and VAD mechanical cardiac support.
Administrative:
• To undertake general administrative duties within the wider context of Directorate and Trust aims and objectives.
• Oversight of timely production of discharge summaries for patients on PICU.
• Excellent documentation of PICU activities.
• Maintain Continued Medical Education (CME) in accordance with guidelines stipulated by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH).
• Participate in all aspects of Clinical Governance, making a significant contribution to multidisciplinary audit and risk management activities in the care of children and their families. The aims of audit will include:
o ensuring compliance with national guidelines relating to the care of children;
o helping to create an environment of continuously seeking to improve the quality of that care
• Undertake an annual appraisal and job plan review. It is expected that objectives within job plan reviews will be based on individual requirements and interests as well as service requirements and Trust objectives such as fulfilment of fixed contractual commitments on the basis of a 43 week working year with due allowance for statutory holidays.
Research:
• Participation in the Trustwide paediatric critical care research programme
Enabling Learning:
• Contribution to paediatric critical care education programmes, including involvement with PICM GRID training. Participate in enabling learning of any other health care professionals within the departments and Directorates
• Participate in enabling learning of undergraduate medical students from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in all parts of the course but specifically in stage 3 and 5 during the attachments in Child Health
• The incumbent will be expected to contribute to enabling learning of all levels of paediatric postgraduate Trainees. Active involvement in the clinical supervision of all postgraduate trainees in the Trust.
This advert closes on Saturday 24 Aug 2024
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