Consultant PAEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE (PICU)

NHS; Oxford; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job description

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The Paediatric Critical Care Unit (PCCU) is a busy 18-bed unit serving the local population and 5 district-general hospitals in the Thames Valley (TV) Area and supporting district hospitals across the Thames Valley and Wessex. The paediatric critical care transport and retrieval service is called the Southampton Oxford Retrieval Service (SORT). It is a joint venture run as a 24-hour, 365-day-a-year service with teams available from both Oxford and Southampton sites. We support a variety of specialist services including paediatric neurosurgery, craniofacial surgery, ENT, cardiology, respiratory and haematology/oncology in conjunction with the specialist teams.

We are a Major Trauma Centre (MTC) and the hub for the Thames Valley major trauma network, responsible for the care of over 1000 adult and child major trauma cases per year. We have a vibrant clinical research portfolio contributing to a variety of national and international clinical trials. We jointly run and staff a 24-hour paediatric critical care transport and retrieval service in conjunction with University Hospitals Southampton (SORT).

Main duties of the job

The post holder's duties will be to provide tertiary specialist intensive care to children presenting to the John Radcliffe Hospital and other hospitals primarily in the Thames Valley and Wessex paediatric critical care retrieval network.

Clinical

The Paediatric Critical Care Unit in Oxford admits around 850-900 children per year. The Unit provides high dependency (Level 2) and intensive (Level 3) care to children in the Thames Valley and Wessex region.

The unit supports medical specialties such as tertiary-level respiratory, cardiology, infectious disease and immunology, haematology and oncology, and gastroenterology. We are a major trauma centre and provide emergency and elective paediatric neurosurgery. We also have nationally recognised cleft lip and palate, ENT, plastic surgery, and craniofacial services, all of which depend on Oxford PCCU for post-operative care.

There are 8 whole-time equivalent posts and these posts have been made with increased funding from NHSE for the expansion of the SORT retrieval service in Oxford to allow 24-hour cover from both Oxford and Southampton. The consultant group includes people with both anaesthetic and paediatric backgrounds who have a diverse range of interests including point-of-care ultrasound, echocardiography, clinical and academic research and education and simulation.

About us

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.

We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

Job responsibilities

Outline Job Plan Weekly Provisional Programmed Activities

A draft indicative timetable and Job Plan is outlined below. The final Job Plan for the post will be agreed with the team and clinical director upon appointment and will be subject to renegotiation at least annually. Job plans in PICU are fully annualised.

1. Monday: 08:00-17:00 Supervised time in theatres for non anaesthetists. (1 week/year) DCC 0.043
2. Monday: 08:30-18:00 Consultant of The week (ICU). (6 weeks/year) DCC 0.339
3. Monday: 09:00-17:00 (3 days per year) DCC 0.115
4. Tuesday: 08:00-17:00 Supervised time in theatres for non anaesthetists. (1 week/year) DCC 0.043
5. Tuesday: 08:30-18:00 Consultant of The week (ICU). (6 weeks/year) DCC 0.339
6. Tuesday: 16:30-08:00 Overnight 1st on call (29 nights/year) DCC 2.04
7. Tuesday: 08:00-17:00 Supervised time in theatres for non anaesthetists. (1 week/year) DCC 0.043
8. Tuesday: 08:30-18:00 Consultant of The week (ICU). (6 weeks/year) DCC 0.339
9. Tuesday: 20:00-08:00 Overnight 2nd on call (Regional transport cover) (26 nights/year) DCC 0.619
10. Thursday: 08:00-17:00 Supervised time in theatres for non anaesthetists. (1 week/year) DCC 0.043
11. Thursday: 08:30-18:00 Consultant of The week (ICU). (6 weeks/year) DCC 0.339
12. Thursday: 08:30-18:00 2nd on Daytime work (transport, HDU, seeing internal referrals, supporting 1st on) (23 days/year) DCC 1.3
13. Friday: 08:00-17:00 Supervised time in theatres for non anaesthetists. (1 week/year) DCC 0.043
14. Friday: 08:30-18:00 Consultant of The week (ICU). (6 weeks/year) DCC 0.339
15. Friday: DCC 0.24
16. Saturday + Sunday: 08:30-16:30 (5 weekends per year) DCC 0.634
17. Saturday + Sunday: 16:30-08:00 (5 weekends per year) DCC 0.754
18. Weekend 2nd on call: (5 weekends per year) DCC 0.476
19. Flexible: Clinical Admin work to support above DCC 0.404
20. Flexible: Additional agreed activity to be worked flexibly (details discussed in individual job plan meetings) SPA 0.5
21. Flexible: CPD, Appraisal and Revalidation SPA 1.0

Total DCC: 8.5

Total SPA: 1.5

Number: 8.5

Supporting professional activities: 1.5

TOTAL PROGRAMMED ACTIVITIES: 10

Anticipated on-call availability supplement: 1 in 5

Agreed on-call rota e.g. 1 in 5: A

Agreed category (delete): 5%

On-call supplement %:

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Full GMC with licence to practice
• MRCPCH
• GMC specialist register or CCT in Paediatrics or equivalent (via portfolio pathway) or within 6 months of achieving this at the time of the interview
• NTN level 3 GRID training in Paediatric Intensive Care or equivalent
• Trained to level 3 safeguarding
• Higher medical degree e.g. MD, PhD or evidence of working towards a higher academic degree
• APLS or equivalent course in date

Experience

• Previous experience at tertiary level in paediatric intensive care
• Comprehensive training in Paediatrics and all aspects of Paediatric Intensive Care
• Evidence of ability to make decisions at consultant level, to manage complex clinical problems and to liaise appropriately with colleagues
• Previous experience as Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care

Skills

• Excellent leadership skills. Evidence of ability to lead a clinical team at the level of a consultant in a teaching hospital
• Effective administrative and time management skills.
• Evidence of significant contribution to successful teamwork
• Good written English. Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team
• Experience of formal and informal contributions to teaching and training.
• Evidence of effective and sustained contribution to clinical governance, clinical risk management and clinical audit activities
• Evidence of previous active participation in research. Presentations at national meetings and publication of research in peer-reviewed journals.
• UK Driving licence
• Training in clinical management
• Previous leadership roles in clinical governance
• Good Clinical Practice (GCP). CI/Pi on local studies. Presentations at international meetings. Previous holder of research grants

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.