Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care MedicineNHS

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join an enthusiastic, well-motivated and generally awesome team - as a full-time 10 programmed activity (PA) post in Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine at Alder Hey Children's Hospital Applicants for this post must have in-depth experience of general medical, neonatal surgical, neurosurgical & cardiac paediatric intensive care. They must have extensive experience in the provision of extra-corporeal support for children with extreme cardio-respiratory failure.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will contribute to a rota which provides 24/7 cover for PICU in combination with other consultant colleagues. A total of 10 PAs are payable with a breakdown as follows: 8 DCC + 2 SPAs (as detailed in the job plan section of this document). Additional clinical PAs may be available by mutual agreement.

Job description

The PICU consultants direct the day-to-day clinical management of all patients in the PICU with close working relationships with other consultants in the hospital. Patients are admitted under the joint care of the duty PICU consultant and another appropriate Alder Hey consultant, the latter taking charge of care when the patient is discharged from PICU.

The consultants in PICU work a system where daytime cover for the PICU is provided on a rotating basis, with a 1st on hot week consultant having prime responsibility for running the unit each day. Additionally, there are supporting 2nd and 3rd on consultants. The consultant out of hours on-call commitment will be a one in 6 rota with prospective cover as either 1st on or 2nd on. Daily morning hand-over rounds start at 8.00am. There are further rounds on call and an evening hand-over round at 8.30pm. Consultants do not have any clinical responsibilities in the 24 hours following being on-call. Job plans consider the full spectrum of clinical commitments.

The PHDU currently has a clinically open model of care, it is co-located with PICU and separately staffed from a nursing and medical perspective. Children in PHDU are under the care of either their admitting paediatric medical or surgical teams or the most appropriate clinical team at the time of transfer from PICU. With recent additional middle grade and consultant staff HDU is now covered 24/7 with dedicated HDU staff.

About us

As one of Europe's biggest and busiest children's hospitals, at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, we treat everything from common illnesses to highly complex and specialist conditions.In addition to our main hospital site, we offer paediatric services at a number of community sites and hold local clinics across Merseyside, Cumbria, Shropshire, Wales and the Isle of Man. We also provide specialist inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs in our recently relocated and newly opened state of the art facility.

Alder Hey has a thriving research portfolio and leads research into children's medicines, infection, inflammation and oncology. We are becoming recognised as one of the world's leaders in children's healthcare and research. We contribute to public health, lead cutting-edge research and teach the next generation of children's specialists. Alongside this is ourInnovation Hub, a dedicated space where clinicians and industries can come together to create new products and technologies.

We know that a children's hospital is different and that our job is more than just treating an illness. To us, every child is an individual. As well as giving them the very best care, we set out to make them feel happy, safe and confident as they play, learn and grow. At Alder Hey we are here to look after a child and their family and that includes mums, dads, brothers and sisters.