Locum Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care

Job responsibilities

2. OBJECTIVES OF THE POST

To deliver care to patients with critical illness including:

Contribution to the First on (Lead); Second on (Support) and third on (HDU) roles in the department

Manage General Medical patients

Manage Medical and Surgical Cardiac patients

Manage patients on Extracorporeal Life Support

Manage Specialist surgery patients including Neurosurgery; Spinal surgery; Liver transplant and Renal transplant

Be familiar with equipment, operational policies and staffing levels/competencies

Liaise with Embrace and DGH colleagues regarding admission of Time Critical and other referrals

Contribution to PCCU department and Governance meetings as well as active engagement with hospital wide and other speciality meetings

2.2 To work with consultant colleagues in PCCU to deliver acute on call (this is currently 1 in 9). This includes acute ward rounds and unit management during normal working hours and regular out of hours commitment on the on-call rota.

2.3 To link with Consultant colleagues in other relevant site specialist teams within the Childrens Hospital and across the Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust and

with colleagues in District General hospitals, Sheffield Childrens Hospital

Foundation Trust and other regional transport services.

2.4 To contribute to research, teaching and new developments within the PICU. The post holder will be encouraged to facilitate and contribute to the current clinical research programs in the department.

THE LEEDS WAY VALUES

Our values are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see this as a strength, as well as a responsibility. They have been developed by our staff and set out what they see as important to how we work. Our five values are:

Patient-centered

Collaborative

Fair

Accountable

Empowered

All our actions and endeavours will be guided and evaluated through these values

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is part of the West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts (WYAAT), a collaborative of the NHS hospital trusts from across West Yorkshire and Harrogate working together to provide the best possible care for our patients.

By bringing together the wide range of skills and expertise across West Yorkshire and Harrogate we are working differently, innovating and driving forward change to deliver the highest quality care. By working for Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust this is your opportunity to be a part of that change.

WYAAT is the acute sector arm of the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership, one of the largest integrated care systems in the country. The Partnerships ambition is for everyone to have the best possible health and wellbeing, and the work of WYAAT, and each individual trust, supports that ambition.

Experience

Essential

• Must be able to demonstrate a high level of clinical experience and competence in the management of the critically ill child and children with congenital heart disease.
• Evidence of specialist training in Paediatric Intensive Care including Paediatric Cardiac Intensive care and Extracorporeal life support.
• Must be able to demonstrate higher professional training in paediatrics, anaesthesia or other related speciality
• Level 2 Child Protection training
• Evidence of continuous career progression consistent with personal circumstances.
• Should have completed sub speciality training for 2 years in rotation approved for Training in Paediatric intensive Care Medicine or equivalent
• Experience in training undergraduate medical students and postgraduate doctors.
• Experience of participation in regular clinical audit. Understanding of current issues in the NHS.
• Well organised and skilled in good time management.
• Effective interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrate ability to relate to and work within a team.
• Medically fit to fulfil ALL aspects of the post, and to be able to respond quickly to emergencies, as necessary. Meets professional health requirements (in line with GMC standards)

Desirable

• Echocardiography/ Bronchoscopy skills
• Previous attendance on Appraisal Techniques and Small Group Teaching Workshops.
• Attendance at recognised management course.

Eligibility and Fitness to Practice

Essential

• Eligible for full registration with the GMC at time of appointment and hold a current licence to practice.
• Eligibility to work in the UK.
• Fitness to practice Is up to date and fit to practise safely
• All applicants to have demonstrable skills in written and spoken English adequate to enable effective communication about medical topics with patients and colleagues demonstrated as follows
• Applicants have undertaken undergraduate medical training in English. OR Achieved the minimum score of 7 across all 4 of the following categories in the academic International English Language Testing
• System (IELTS) in a single sitting within 24 months at time of application Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing. (An overall minimum score of 7.5)
• OR Achieved the minimum Grade B across all 4 of the following categories in the Occupational English Test (OET) in medicine in a single sitting within 24 months at time of application
• application Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing. (You must provide your candidate number)

Additional Criteria

Essential

• * Hold full GMC Registration with a license to practice.
• * Entry on the GMC Specialist Register via: - CCT (proposed CCT date must be within 6 months of interview) - CESR (or) - European Community Rights

Qualifications

Essential

• Membership Examination of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health or Royal College of Anaesthetists or equivalent post graduate qualification

Desirable

• Relevant higher degree PhD MD

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).