Medical Specialty Trainee in Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine (PICM)

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust; Reading; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS trust in the UK is offering a Medical Specialty Trainee position in Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine. This 12-month role provides experience in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia. Candidates must have at least 1 year of PICU experience and qualifications like MB ChB or equivalent. You will join an enthusiastic anaesthetic department, develop skills in managing complex cases, and have opportunities to engage in quality improvement and research initiatives. Excellent support and training will be provided.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 1 year's experience in Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine.
• Experience working in a Paediatric retrieval team.
• GMC registration required.

Responsibilities

• Assess and manage a wide range of elective and emergency theatre cases.
• Participate in quality improvement projects.
• Attend teaching sessions including simulation.

Skills

Experience in Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine

Educational diploma or equivalent

Provider status in ALS, ATLS, or APLS

Education

MB ChB, MBBS or equivalent

MRCPCH or equivalent

Job description

Medical Specialty Trainee in Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine (PICM)

This 12-month post offers candidates the opportunity to gain experience in Intensive Care medicine and Anaesthesia in a busy district general hospital. This post has been available at the RBH for the last 8 years and is designed for PICU trainees to enable the candidate to achieve a CCT/CSER in PICU grid training. This job would be ideally suited to individuals who are PICU trainees and have at least 6 months experience working in a PICU.

This post will provide experience in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia for trainees with a background in Paediatrics.

Main duties of the job

Successful applicants would receive the same training opportunities as doctors in training and dedicated time for study leave. Educational supervision would be provided and support with undertaking quality improvement projects/audits to support specialist training applications.

The clinical training programme is outcome-based and follows the curriculum developed by the Faculty of Intensive care medicine (FICM). This is described in detail on the FICM's documents on outcome-based training and assessment (http://www.ficm.ac.uk).

About us

Our ICU has just been rated 'Outstanding' for patient care by the CQC and the Trust overall has a 'Good' rating. The unit currently admits nearly 1000 level 2 and level 3 patients per year into 19 beds. The case mix is predominantly medical with trauma and surgical patients making up about 20%. Around 90% of our admissions are emergencies with the remainder being high risk surgical cases including, colo-rectal & urological procedures. There are about 60 paediatric admissions and stabilisations a year the vast majority of which are retrieved via the Southampton and Oxford Retrieval Team (SORT). The Trust is a tertiary referral cancer centre and includes all specialties except neurosurgery, transplant, vascular and cardiothoracic surgery. The trust has a primary coronary angioplasty service with the fastest door to needle times in the country as well as the fastest door to needle times for stroke thrombolysis. There is an excellent interventional radiology department staffed by six consultants. We also get excellent support from our microbiology department with daily ward rounds on the ICU.

Job responsibilities

The successful candidate would join an enthusiastic and friendly anaesthetic department for six months of their placement. They will develop competence in assessing and managing a wide range of elective and emergency theatre cases under appropriate supervision. Surgical specialities delivered at RBH include orthopaedics, general surgery, urology (including robotic cases), ENT, dental, gynaecology and bariatrics. The trainee will have a named clinical supervisor to ensure they get the most out of their time with us. The trainee will be encouraged and supported to complete quality improvement projects and will be supported to attend the teaching on offer e.g. monthly simulation and weekly teaching sessions.

Where possible the successful candidate will attend the RIACT and BASICS-equivalent courses, which supplements the knowledge and skills required for the Initial Certificate of Competence.

Research

We have a strong urgent care research team running clinical trials across the ICU, ED and AMU. Professor Frise and Professor Keating run the Urgent Care research team of five research nurses and a research assistant. We work closely with our colleagues in the Research and Development department as well as the local Clinical Research Network. We have been the successful recipients of three College of Emergency Medicine research grants as well as co-applicants for successful Intensive Care Foundation grant. The successful candidates will be expected to take an active role in these areas and will be supported to undertake Good Clinical Practice (GCP) Training.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• MB ChB, MBBS or equivalent MRCPCH or equivalent GMC registration
• Educational diploma or equivalent

Experience

• Minimum of 1 years' experience in Paediatric Intensive Care medicine Experience of working in a Paediatric retrieval team
• Provider status in one of the following: ALS, ATLS, or APLS

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.