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Junior Fellow in Paediatric Critical Care Medicine
| Posting date: | 29 January 2026 |
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| Salary: | £52,656.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £52656.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 February 2026 |
| Location: | Oxford, OX3 9DU |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9321-26-0125 |
Summary
The Paediatric Critical Care (PCC) unit provides intensive and high dependency care to the local population and children of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire as well as further afield. It comprises a ten-bedded intensive care area and an adjacent eight-bedded High Dependency ward. OUH is a major trauma centre and supports a number of medical and surgical specialities including Infectious Diseases, Respiratory medicine, Cardiology, Neurology, Endocrinology and Gastroenterology, Paediatric surgery, Neurosurgery, craniofacial surgery and Orthopaedic surgery. The department is run by the Consultant of the week. The Consultant is a strong presence on the unit and provides a continuous high level of training and supervision. There are twice daily consultant led ward rounds. The department is staffed with 18 trainees at ST6-7 level with a background in Paediatrics and Neonatology or Anaesthetics and adult Intensive Care Medicine. The post holders principle duties are patient review and monitoring and the implementation of management plans decided upon these ward rounds. They are also responsible for the admission and discharge of children, and liaison with speciality teams, the review and stabilization of deteriorating children on the wards and attending the Emergency Department for critically ill and injured children. Paediatric Intensive Care retrievals from the Oxford region and the neighbouring District General Hospitals are managed on a 24-hour basis jointly with Southampton General Hospital under the umbrella of the Southampton Oxford Retrieval Team (SORT). SORT provides support to over 15 District General Hospitals in the combined South Central Region. Successful applicants will be have opportunities to join retrievals and outreach educational activities to the district general hospitals as well as engage in an agreed project where clinical duties allow (Research / Education / Quality Improvement). Once we reach the required number of applications the vacancy will close.