Paediatric Trauma & Retrieval FellowNHS

Job summary

Paediatric Trauma and Critical Care Fellowship

(ST7 level and above Equivalent)

Fellowship in Paediatric Trauma and Critical Care

(ST7 level and above Equivalent)

Applications are invited to apply for the above post at the Children's Hospital Oxford.

Candidates are invited to contact Dr Avishay Sarfatti at Oxford University Hospital (OUH) PCC.

Post commencing from March 2027 fixed term for 12 months

Main duties of the job

Paediatric Trauma

Oxford University Hospital (OUH) is a paediatric major trauma centre and manages paediatric trauma patents presenting locally, or transferred to OUH following presentation to one of the district general hospitals in Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire. We expect that the trauma fellow will be involved throughout the patient journey at OUH, from stabilization of the patient in ED, through admission to paediatric critical care and the rehabilitation pathway as needed. Their day time work will be focused on the trauma pathway and its delivery and development.

Southampton and Oxford Retrieval Service (SORT), Paediatric Critical Care, Oxford University Hospital

The Paediatric Critical Care (PCC) unit provides intensive and high dependency care to the local population and children of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire as well as further afield. It comprises an eight-bedded Intensive Care Area and an adjacent eight-bedded High Dependency ward

Paediatric Intensive Care retrievals from the Oxford region are managed on a 24-hour basis jointly with Southampton General Hospital under the umbrella of the Southampton Oxford Retrieval Team (SORT). SORT provides support to over 15 District General Hospitals in the combined South Central Region. Successful applicants will work out of hours as a retrieval fellow, undertaking independent retrievals of critically ill children between the DGHs and OUH.

Job description

Day time work will include:

Time allowed for office work/EDT/guidelines

Time to attend rehab pathway

Time to attend trauma meeting

Time to attend PICU to support the management of trauma patient

The trauma pathway

• Trauma meeting screens meeting at 0800. All trauma case are discussed approx. 1hr
• Trauma coordinator team and trauma rehab team
• Working with paeds to see what need of in-patients are
• 0745- neurosurgery screens meeting- paeds case discussed first
• Attend all paeds trauma calls
• Follow patients from trauma call to theatre to rehabilitation on the ward
• Undertake / ensure secondary and tertiraty survery completion in ED/PICU/ward
• Clinical Governance trauma meeting- every other week

About us

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is 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 this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and 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 the OUH YouTube channel.