Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care Transport Medicine

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust; Warrington; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A major NHS healthcare provider is seeking a Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care Transport Medicine. This role involves providing high-quality clinical care and advice for critically ill children. The successful candidate will be responsible for overseeing patient referrals, providing 24-hour consultant support, and ensuring the management of paediatric patients during transport. High standards and strong collaborative skills are essential for success in this role.

Qualifications

• Anaesthetic experience is necessary.
• Significant experience in a paediatric intensive care unit approved for training is essential.
• Experience in the transport of critically ill children is required.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct clinical care and consultant advice for transport service.
• Join the team for 24-hour consultant cover.
• Track patient follow-up for 24 hours post-referral.

Skills

Building effective relationships

Communication skills

Leadership skills

Ability to work collaboratively

Practical skills in paediatric intensive care

Education

Full GMC registration

MRCPCH/FRCA or equivalent

On GMC specialist register for Paediatrics

MD or PhD

Job description

Go back Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care Transport Medicine

The closing date is 11 November 2025

This service provides a dedicated paediatric intensive care stabilisation and transport service for critically sick or injured children in the North West (England) and North Wales Region. It works closely with the region's two paediatric intensive care units, Alder Hey Children's Hospital and Royal Manchester Children's Hospital. The team are looking to strengthen links with the PIC team at Royal Stoke University Hospital in line with already established links for Surgical (including neonates), Neurosurgical and Neurology patients to the Lead Centres in the North West.

The service has been established to support and provide high quality care for critically sick or injured children and their families from the first point of contact with secondary care and during their transportation to an appropriate PICU. NWTS provides a single point of contact for referring hospitals with Consultant-led specialist advice on stabilisation, transport, and triaging facilities for all referrals at all timeThe service receives approximately 1,400 referrals and undertakes between 600 - 700 transfers annually from the 29 District General Hospitals in the region into the two tertiary hospitals within the North West. NWTS works closely with both the referring hospitals and the two providers of paediatric intensive care in the region, and is part of the Paediatric Critical Care, Children's Major Trauma and Congenital Cardiac Networks in region. NWTS is hosted by Manchester Foundation Trust (MFT).

Main duties of the job

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

Duties will be providing direct clinical care, Consultant advice and support for the NWTS transport service. Approximately 45% of referrals to NWTS are for advice on patient management only. Patients are followed up for a minimum of 24 hours following referral to track whether they have improved or deteriorated and need escalation of care.The successful candidate will join the team providing 24-hour consultant cover for NWTS.

About us

MFT is England's largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £3bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we've launched in September 2022.

We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Job responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at [e-mail].

Were looking forward to hearing from you!

Person Specification

Qualifications & Training

• Anaesthetic experience
• Significant PICM experience in a unit approved for training
• MRCPCH/FRCA or equivalent
• Full GMC registration and licensed to practice
• Experience in the transportation of critically ill children
• APLS/EPLS provider
• On GMC specialist register for Paediatrics (+ PICM), Anaesthetics or equivalent via CESR
• MD or PhD
• PGCert
• APLS instructor

Experience & knowledge

• Significant training in an approved paediatric intensive care medicine department including PICM transport, or completed PICM grid training in an approved unit and been signed off by GMC (approval via PICM ISAC) or oExisting practising consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine including transport
• Extensive experience in the care of neonatal & paediatric patients with life-threatening medical and surgical conditions
• Extensive experience in management of cardiac patients including post-op cardiac surgical patients
• Extensive experience in the transportation of neonatal & paediatric patients receiving intensive care
• Level 3 Safeguarding training
• Extensive experience in management of patients on ECMO
• Credentials supporting management training
• Knowledge of research governance procedures

Skills and abilities

• Ability to build effective relationships and work collaboratively with staff at all levels across the region Teaching skills and experience
• Competent in practical skills relating to paediatric intensive care
• Ability to triage / prioritise workload
• Ability to supervise the clinical work of doctors in training and other staff
• Ability to relate to patients and carers from a wide range of backgrounds and to empathise with their needs and concerns.
• Excellent oral/ written communication skills in English
• Good leadership skills and people management skills
• Experience & training in simulation and debrief techniques
• Experience of quality and safety improvements - e.g., critical incident & mortality reviews.
• Leading change through people
• Holding to account
• Empowering others
• Effective and strategic influencing
• Collaborative working

Personal Qualities

• Competent in practical skills relating to paediatric intensive care
• Self-motivated to set and achieve targets for self & others
• Good leadership skills and people management skills

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust