Consultant Children's Intensive Care

The Methodist Church in Britain; Stoke-on-Trent; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working requests considered

Job summary

Staffordshire Children's Hospital, part of University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust, invites applications for a Locum Paediatric Critical Care Consultant. The role covers PICU and HDU on a consultant-of-the-week rota, eight weeks per year, with on-call at one in 5.5 for PICU including evenings and weekends, and time for educational supervision.

Applicants must have GMC registration and be on the specialist register, or within six months of CCT by interview.

Qualifications

• MRCPCH, FRCA or equivalent
• Current APLS/EPLS provider
• Up to date safeguarding children level 3
• GMC registration and on specialist register or within six months of CCT

Responsibilities

• Consultant of the week cover to PICU, eight weeks per year
• Consultant of the week cover to HDU, eight weeks per year
• On-call rota for PICU at one in 5.5, including evenings and weekends
• Educational supervision
• Attending departmental meetings
• Emergency airway access and intubation
• Seldinger technique for securing vascular access
• Pleural drain insertion
• Renal support (CVVH)
• Transport of the critically ill child
• Invasive and non-invasive respiratory support
• Working closely with the PICU team and wider multidisciplinary teams

Skills

Teaching

Communication

Time management

Leadership

Clinical governance

CPD

Research

Education

MRCPCH

FRCA

APLS/EPLS provider

Safeguarding level 3

Job description

Locum Paediatric Critical Care Consultant post at Staffordshire Children's Hospital, part of University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust. The core of the work is consultant-of-the-week cover on the paediatric intensive care unit and high dependency unit, eight weeks on each per year. The post also carries a one in 5.5 on-call rota for PICU covering evenings and weekends, plus time for educational supervision. Applicants need full GMC registration and to be on the specialist register, or within six months of CCT by interview.

What the job involves

• Consultant of the week cover to PICU, eight weeks per year
• Consultant of the week cover to HDU, eight weeks per year
• On-call rota for PICU at one in 5.5, including evenings and weekends
• Educational supervision
• Attending departmental meetings
• Emergency airway access and intubation
• Seldinger technique for securing vascular access
• Pleural drain insertion
• Renal support (CVVH)
• Transport of the critically ill child
• Invasive and non-invasive respiratory support
• Working closely with the PICU team and wider multidisciplinary teams

What's required

Qualifications

• MRCPCH, FRCA or equivalent
• Current APLS/EPLS provider
• Up to date safeguarding children level 3

Registration & licences

• Full GMC registration
• On the specialist register, or within six months of CCT by interview

Experience

• PICM training route: two years in an approved unit plus six months anaesthetics, PICM GRID, CESR specialist register, substantive PICM consultant, or equivalent signed off
• Experience of supervising junior medical staff

Skills & knowledge

• Ability to teach clinical skills
• Willingness to take part in teaching
• Understanding of management issues including clinical governance and service planning
• Evidence of CPD, commitment to continuing medical education, and participation in research or clinical audit
• Good written and oral communication
• Time management, working under pressure and without immediate supervision

Checks & eligibility

• Means to meet the travel requirements, with residence allowing return to base within 30 minutes
• Accessible by telephone for on-call duties

Other

• Working in a multidisciplinary team, with good interpersonal skills and a supportive, caring manner

Nice to have

• Higher degree (MD, PhD) in a related field
• Experience of managing complex long term ventilated patients
• Experience of continuous renal replacement therapy
• APLS/EPLS/ATLS instructor
• Formal training in research or teaching methods
• Publications in peer reviewed journals
• Willingness to develop leadership skills through project work and mentoring junior staff
• Willingness to take on additional professional responsibilities at local, regional or national level

What's offered

• Flexible working requests considered