Consultant Embrace Neonatal

This is an exciting opportunity for CCT holders in Paediatrics, Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine, Neonatology, Paediatric Emergency Medicine (PEM) or Paediatric Anaesthesia to join Embrace, a joint neonatal and paediatric transport service for Yorkshire & Humber.

The post holders should be able to demonstrate appropriate experience in primary and/or secondary critical care transport.

Any consultant who is unable, for personal reasons, to work full time will be considered for the post. If such a person is appointed, modification of the job plan will be discussed on a personal basis with the Trust in consultation with consultant colleagues.

**Specific duties**:

- Take clinical and managerial responsibility for the transport service while on duty
- Be familiar with equipment, operational policies and staffing levels/competencies
- Facilitate conference calls for patients requiring immediate high priority transfer
- Provide initial advice; facilitate conference call between referring clinician, identified accepting unit consultant and any other specialist required
- Triage calls to determine the composition of the transport team
- Provide advice to the transport team on the management of the transfer
- Perform transfers including when patient acuity dictates a consultant level of care
- Support training and development, including supervised transports, for new members of the team
- Utilisation review
- Reporting of incidents as part of a just culture
- Involvement in audit and research
- Adherence to policies agreed by the service
- Be involved in the management of the service
- Provide mentoring support to medical and nursing staff

Embrace was the first combined neonatal and paediatric transport service to be developed in the UK. It takes responsibility for the secondary inter-hospital transfer of neonates and critically ill children within Yorkshire and Humber, North Derbyshire and North Lincolnshire. Its main functions are clinical decision support to clinical teams, triage and transport of patients into the two regional PICUs in Leeds and Sheffield and between the Network Neonatal Units, including level 3 centres in Leeds, Sheffield, Bradford and Hull. When the clinical condition demands, or when capacity cannot be identified within the networks, the service will transport patients out of region. Embrace provides ground and air transport and is fully accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems - Global (camtsglobal.org) for surface, rotary wing and fixed wing operations. The service handles 3,500 referrals a year, providing clinical advice and logístical support, and consistently transfers more than 2,000 patients annually. In 2021 Embrace supported the rapid development of an adult critical care transport service for the region as part of the response to the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. This operated for 6 weeks and work is now ongoing to assist in the delivery of a permanent service later this year.

This is an exciting opportunity for CCT holders in Paediatrics, who have an interest in critical care medicine, or a subspeciality CCT holder in either Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine, Neonatology, Paediatric Emergency Medicine (PEM) or Paediatric Anaesthesia to join Embrace, the neonatal and paediatric transport service for Yorkshire & Humber. This is a 10PA full time Permanent Consultant post, with the potential for extra PAs at one of the regional PICUs.

Please see the job description and person specification attached. These documents are combined and detail all aspects of the role including proposed rota