Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care

Salary/Rate:£109,725 to £145,478 a year

Job type:Permanent

County:Hampshire

Sector:Women's & Children’s

Job ref:880

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Simon Handley

Senior Recruitment Consultant

0203 854 0082 / 07460 630884

Simon@kaizenrecruitment.co.uk

About the Role

We are working in partnership with a leading Teaching NHS Foundation Trust in Hampshire to recruit a Consultant PICU on a substantive or fixed term basis.

The PICU department is a 16 bedded intensive care unit delivering a comprehensive service for all sub-specialties for the geographical area covering the Wessex Region. In addition, a General Paediatric Service is provided to the District and congenital cardiac surgical services are delivered to the Thames Valley area.

The regional PIC retrieval service is delivered from the trust in collaboration with Oxford University Hospital. In 2022/23 there were 900 admissions to hopsital with 350 level 3 retrievals and 250 transport episodes. All types of cardiac interventional procedures are carried out, with approximately 350 cardiac operations performed each year. The PICU department has consistently one of the lowest SMRs and highest throughputs per bed of any PICU in the UK. We are a regional ECMO centre offer VV and VA ECMO for respiratory and cardiac support.

Job responsibilities
Clinical Duties: All clinical sessions will be in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU).
The case mix of admissions reflects a mixed general PICU. Support is provided for all the paediatric subspecialty services including paediatric cardiology and cardiac surgery, paediatric neurology and neurosurgery, paediatric nephrology, haematology/oncology, respiratory, gastroenterology, infectious diseases/immunology, endocrinology, paediatric surgery, general paediatrics and trauma. The Intensive Care consultants manage patients in collaboration with the various multi-disciplinary teams involved with the patients.

It is essential for you to have significant experience in paediatric cardiac intensive care, renal replacement therapies and techniques of advanced ventilatory support including the use of inhaled nitric oxide, high frequency oscillation and extracorporeal life support. Ideally you would have spent time in a commissioned ECMO unit. It is also necessary for you to have significant experience in management of severe traumatic head injuries and management of complex patients with multiple organ failure and transport medicine.

Person Specification
Qualifications, Training & Experience
Essential

MRCPCH/ FRCA or equivalent
GMC registration with a licence to practise
Valid Level 3 Safeguarding Training
Valid APLS Training

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