PICU and KIDS Consultant

3 weeks ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

The Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at Birmingham Children's Hospital (BCH) has 31 beds. There are 20 general paediatric intensive care beds and 11 cardiac intensive care beds. The unit supports a wide range of medical and surgical specialities, including supra-regional services such as hepatology, liver transplantation, stem cell transplantation and burns critical care. The hospital is a paediatric Major Trauma Centre and the unit is commissioned by NHS England as a respiratory ECLS Centre. The department admits around 1400 patients per year. 85% of the admissions are ventilated during their stay. The average length of stay is days; crude mortality rate is with Standardised Mortality Ratio of Our cardiac programme involves between 500-550 surgical cases a year, of which 380-430 are performed on bypass. The PICU has significant and expertise in safety, quality improvement, education & training as well as research & development, with many active clinical trials.

Main duties of the job

This substantive consultant post has 10 PAs, of which 8 are clinical PAs and 2 SPAs. The appointee will undertake clinical and SPA sessions in PICU and KIDS on a 50:50 basis.

The appointee will join the dedicated PIC and KIDS teams to provide high quality service delivery, maintain standards and protocols, to provide teaching and perform audit.

Candidates are required to be on, or eligible to be on, the Specialist Register and:

Minimum of two years training in an approved Paediatric intensive care medicine training unit plus six months (minimum) of anaesthetics (stand-alone), OR completed PICM GRID training (UK) OR On specialist register for PICM via the CESR route OR Existing Substantive consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine including transport Or Equivalent with evidence that this training has been signed off.

Applicants from overseas will need to be able to provide documentary evidence of their overseas training and this must be demonstrated to be equivalent to an approved UK training programme.

Applicants who do not wish to work full-time will be eligible to be considered for the post. If such a person is appointed, modification of the job content will be discussed on a personal basis with the Trust in consultation with consultant colleagues.

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is committed to an equal opportunities policy.

About us

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.

Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust.

When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).

Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

FRCA/MRCP/MRCPCH/Equivalent On GMC Specialist Register for base specialty on commencement of post Within six months of obtaining CCT for UK trainees, on the date of interview or equivalent for overseas trainees APLS/PALS/equivalent certification

Desirable

European Trauma Course (ETC) certification

Knowledge & Clinical expertise in specialty/sub-specialty

Essential

Minimum of two years training in an approved paediatric intensive care medicine department plus six months (minimum) of anaesthetics (stand-alone), or completed PICM GRID training in a unit/rotation and been signed off by GMC (approval via PICM ISAC) - OR - Existing practicing consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine including transport Or Equivalent with evidence that this training has been signed off Experience in management of cardiac patients including post-op cardiac surgical patients Level 3 Safeguarding training

Desirable

Experience in transfer of patients being considered for ECLS Experience in neonatal transport Experience in caring for children on ECLS Experience in Neurosurgical intensive care and Trauma management Experience in caring for patients with Liver disease including post -transplantation care.

Quality Improvement and audit

Essential

Experience of clinical audit and the maintenance of high quality of care Experience of quality and safety reviews eg: mortality reviews, review of critical incidents

Academic achievements Research/Publications

Essential

Knowledge and experience of clinical and other research related to intensive care and intensive care transport

Desirable

Publication in peer-reviewed journals

Other requirements

Essential

Teaching skills

Desirable

Training the trainers course

Leadership communication skills

Essential

Excellent oral and written communication skills in English Flexible/Adaptable/Supportive Able to work effectively under pressure

Desirable

Experience and training in medical management and/or clinical leadership Experience and training in human factors/CRM

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