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Main area Critical Care Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow

Contract Fixed term: 6 months (With possibility for extension to 24 months (maximum))

Hours Full time - 48 hours per week (on call)

Job ref 411-SUR-25-7071904-A

Employer Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type NHS

Site Alder Hey Town Liverpool

Salary £61,825 - £70,425 Per annum

Salary period Yearly

Closing 23/04/2025 23:59

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man.

The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.

You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:

• Great flexible working opportunities
• Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• Extensive staff health and well-being programmes

These posts offer a unique opportunity to work in an internationally recognised children’s hospital and designated major trauma and HCID centre. The successful candidate will gain broad experience in paediatric intensive care including cardiac and respiratory ECMO.

These 6-month posts (with a view to potentially extend if suitable), are suitable for candidates who have completed PICM RCPCH grid training or trainees who have completed equivalent training, and are looking to develop a special interest in one of 4 areas:

• Artificial intelligence and data science
• Airway and bronchoscopy
• ECMO
• POCUS

This is an excellent opportunity for trainees who have completed their training and are looking to extend their portfolio and develop a specialty interest within the fields of paediatric critical care in preparation for future consultant posts. Candidates will be offered “chief” weeks as part of their post to gain valuable leadership experience with consultant support.

Successful candidates will provide clinical cover on a hybrid rota with the ACPs, paediatric speciality doctors on rotation, PICM grid trainees and ICM trainees. Clinical duties will include shift work pattern on a bespoke rota covering day and night shifts. Fellows will be allocated “chief” weeks and with support from the consultant on service, will be responsible for leading ward rounds, planning management, and working collaboratively with the wider multi-disciplinary team and other specialities. Fellows will be expected to manage patient flow, lead MDT discussions, and take lead on management of long-term patients.

Fellows will support the unit’s educational programme to participate and teach the PICU doctors/ ACPs/ and nursing staff.

Fellows will be given allocated academic days in addition to usual rota-ed academic / SPA days to complete the projects agreed with their special interest supervisor. Fellows will present their completed project at the weekly PICU senior team meeting and either at a national or international meeting.

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust is one of Europe’s biggest and busiest children’s hospitals providing care for over 200,000 children and young people each year. It is one of only four stand-alone Paediatric trusts in the UK and is staffed by 2,800 employees. In 2017 the hospital has moved into the state-of-the-art children's hospital - Alder Hey in the Park. As the Paediatric Cardiac Surgical Centre for the North West, both departments also play a key role in the wider Paediatric Congenital Cardiac Network for the North West, North Wales, and Isle of Man.

Alder Hey offers 20 specialist services including being the designated national center for Craniofacial Surgery and a Centre of Excellence for Paediatric Oncology, Cardiac Surgery, Cardiology, Neurology and Orthopaedics. It is a teaching hospital and trains 550 medical and 400 nursing students each year. A child and adolescent mental health service is also provided with an in-patient unit based at the Trust.

• Registration (or able to register) with the General Medical Council
• Previous appointments which provided professional training in General Paediatrics & Neonates, Paediatric Intensive Care
• Experience of General Paediatrics & Neonatal Intensive Care and Paediatric Intensive Care
• Ability to communicate and liaise effectively with patients, their parents, and other relatives and with colleagues of all discipline
• Demonstrates ability to work flexibly when necessary
• Ability to work as a team with professional colleagues both medical and other disciplines
• Satisfactory medical clearance from the Trust’s Occupational Health Physician
• Free from disabilities or illness that would prevent clinical management of patients

• Registration (or able to register) with the General Medical Council
• A Higher qualification, e.g. MRCP, FRCA, FRCS

• Previous appointments which provided professional training in General Paediatrics & Neonates, Paediatric Intensive Care
• Training in Paediatric Intensive Care

• Experience of General Paediatrics & Neonatal Intensive Care and Paediatric Intensive Care
• Anaesthetic experience

• Experience of clinical audit i.e. participation

• Experience of teaching medical and other staff

• Evidence of recent and current research with relevant publications

We reserve the right to close vacancies without notice when we have received a sufficient number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply regularly as we will contact you using this regarding your application. All candidates will be notified via email whether or not they have been shortlisted.

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are committed to creating a well-managed, flexible working environment that supports staff and promotes their welfare and development. We actively promote equality and diversity and operate a Zero Tolerance policy to aggression, violence, bullying and harassment.