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
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