Locum Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine
| Posting date: | 30 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £105,504.00 to £139,882.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £105504.00 - £139882.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 July 2025 |
| Location: | Liverpool, L14 5AB |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9411-25-0264 |
Summary
The post holder will contribute to a rota which will provide 24/7 cover for PICU in combination with other Consultant colleagues. A total of 10 PA's are payable with a breakdown as follows: 8.5 DCC + 1.5 SPA (as detailed in the Job Plan section of this document). Additional clinical PA's may be available by mutual agreement. The PICU Consultants direct the day to day clinical management of all patients in the PICU with close working relationships with other Consultants in the hospital. Patients are admitted under the joint care of the duty PICU Consultant and another appropriate Alder Hey Consultant, the latter taking charge of care when the patient is discharged from PICU. The Consultants in Paediatric Intensive Care work a system where daytime cover for the PICU is provided on a rotating basis, with a 1st on PICU Consultant having prime responsibility for running the unit each day. Additionally, there are supporting 2nd and 3rd on Consultants. The Consultant out of hours on-call commitment will be a one in 6 rota with prospective cover as either 1st on or 2nd on. Daily morning hand-over rounds start at 8.30AM. There are further rounds at 5:00PM and an evening hand-over round at 8.30PM. Consultants do not have any clinical responsibilities in the 24 hours following being on-call. Job plans take into account the full spectrum of clinical commitments. There is personal desk space and unit secretarial support. In order to cover a growing ECMO Service and be compliant with the PICS Standards we are expanding Consultant numbers to ensure that there are 2 PICU Consultants on call (i.e. available) at all times. The job plan is displayed later. The PHDU currently has a clinically open model of care, it is co-located with PICU and separately staffed from a nursing and medical perspective. Children in PHDU are under the care of either their admitting paediatric medical or surgical teams or the most appropriate clinical team at the time of transfer from PICU. The current model of PHDU care is changing with the appointment of HDU Consultants.