Consultant Paediatric Intensivist (Cardiac and General)
| Posting date: | 01 July 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: | Newcastle upon Tyne, NE7 7DN |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9317-25-0922 |
Summary
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 Responsibility for the paediatric intensive care unit including managing referrals and new admissions Participate in advice on retrieval of critically ill children via NECTAR when required Provide remote advice in the management of acutely ill children at the DGHs within the region. Provide decision support for patient transfers within the region facilitated by NECTAR. 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: ensuring compliance with national guidelines relating to the care of children; 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 42 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. Flexibility: In line with the Trusts core value of placing patients at the heart of everything we do, we are developing our service provision to be responsive to the needs of our patients. To meet those needs some staff groups will be increasingly asked to work a more flexible work pattern so that they can offer services in the evening or weekend. As a result any offer of employment to a consultant post will be subject to you agreeing to work a new more flexible pattern or working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work. Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.