Job summary
Applications are invited to apply for the above Locum consultant post in Paediatric Intensive Care based at the Oxford Children's Hospital, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford. The f
Funding is permanent and there will be the potential for later conversion to a substantive post following appropriate interview and CSAC appointment process. This post is being offered as locum initially as there is an urgent need to appoint as soon as possible due to the increased clinical workload from the above expansion.
The Paediatric Critical Care Unit (PCCU) is a busy 18 bedded unit serving both the local population and 5 district-general hospitals in the Thames Valley (TV) Area as well as supporting district hospitals across Wessex in conjunction with the Southampton Oxford Retreival Service (SORT). We support a variety of specialist services including paediatric neurosurgery, craniofacial surgery, ENT, cardiology, respiratory and haematolgoy/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 successful applicant will join a team of 8 substantive Consultants. The post-holder's commitments will include the day to day management of children on the paediatric critical care unit, staffing the retrieval service and mentoring and teaching junior and nursing staff. The successful applicant should also be able to demonstrate experience with and a commitment to clinical governance and patient safety issues. Appropriate administrative support will be provided to support this post.Principal Activities
The post holder's duties will 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.
Medical specialties supported by the unit include 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 have nationally recognised cleft lip and palate, ENT, plastic surgery and craniofacial services all of whom are dependant on Oxford PCCU for post operative care.
About us
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trustis 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 thisDelivering Compassionate Excellenceand 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 theOUH YouTube channel.
Job description
Job responsibilities
A draft indicative timetable and Job Plan is outlined on the Job description. 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.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Full GMC with licence to practice
- MRCPCH
- NTN level 3 GRID training in Paediatric Intensive Care or equivalent
- Trained to level 3 safeguarding
Desirable
- APLS or equivalent course in date
- Higher medical degree e.g. MD, PhD or evidence of working towards a higher academic degree.
Experience
Essential
- 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
Desirable
- Previous experience as Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care
Skills
Essential
- 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 spoken and 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
Desirable
- Training in clinical management
- Education qualification
- 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.
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UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
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Employer details
Employer name
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
John Radcliffe
Headington
Oxford
OX3 9DU