Senior Locally Employed Doctor in Paediatric Critical Care Transport

NHS; Warrington; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

Senior Locally Employed Doctor in Paediatric Critical Care Transport

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

3-4 posts to start August / September 2025

The NWTS Senior Locally Employed Doctor (SLED) post is a full-time position with NWTS and is ideal for senior trainees (ideally post-CCT) in anaesthetics, paediatrics, emergency medicine, pre-hospital medicine, and paediatric or adult intensive care medicine, who want to gain further experience in the management of the acutely sick child and transport medicine.

The SLED is an integral part of the multidisciplinary paediatric critical care regional transport team. The main role of the clinical fellow is to manage all aspects of a transfer, including giving advice at the initial referral call, coordinating the logistics of transport, stabilizing the patient, and ensuring a safe, efficient, and cohesive transfer from the referring centre to the accepting intensive care unit. It is expected that the clinical fellow will take an interest in an audit, guideline, or quality assurance projects. In addition, the clinical fellow is part of the NWTS education team and is expected to be involved with the design and delivery of a wide variety of education and training projects run by NWTS.

Due to the short-term nature of the role, the successful candidate must hold a current registration with the GMC at the time of application, whether it be an active licence, ceased licence, or a pending application - MFT cannot support GMC Sponsorship for vacancies less than 12 months fixed term.

Main duties of the job

The role will involve working on a rotational shift system. Shift pattern includes long days (7:30 to 20:00), nights (20:00 to 08:00), twilight shift (11:30 to 00:00), and educational days.

The senior clinical fellow will be expected to:

• Complete referral and transport documentation to an appropriate legible standard.
• Give advice as necessary, according to NWTS/APLS guidelines.
• Liaise with NWTS and tertiary centre paediatric intensive care staff.
• Arrange and undertake transport.
• Maintain the NWTS database.
• Daily check of NWTS transport equipment.
• Maintain an up-to-date personal National Paediatric Critical Care Transport Passport.
• Discuss issues of importance arising from transport, e.g., incidents and excellence.
• Attend and actively participate in monthly regional PICM training.
• Complete an audit or quality assurance project.
• Be involved in the delivery of NWTS education, simulation, and training.
• Be involved in the coordination of trainees rotating from tertiary PICUs and their rota.

Person Specification

Qualifications & Training

• Medical Degree
• ST6 or above in their parent specialty
• MRCPCH/MRCP/FRCA or equivalent
• GMC registration and a License to Practice at the point of application
• Experience in paediatric or adult intensive care
• APLS
• Experience in the transportation of critically ill patients
• CCT in relevant specialty
• Experience in anaesthesia including higher-level paediatrics
• Experience in managing patients with congenital cardiac disease

Skills and Abilities

• Basic training in intubation
• Basic training in venous access (including central)
• Basic training in arterial line insertion

Audit and Education

• Previous experience in the organization and delivery of educational activity
• Experience of audit
• Postgraduate certificate in Medical Education
• Simulation training and experience

Interpersonal Skills

• Effective Communication Skills
• Team Working Skills
• Motivated and enthusiastic individual
• Able to cope well under pressure
• Good insight into own limitations
• Confidence in dealing with emergency situations

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.