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NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Main area: Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine
Grade: NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 10 sessions per week
Job ref: 321-MS-CON-6778704-S5
Site: John Radcliffe
Town: OXFORD
Salary: £105,504 - £139,882
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 16/04/2025 23:59
The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country, providing a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and serving as a base for medical education, training, and research.
The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington, and the Horton Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards, and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we build 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.
The Paediatric Critical Care Unit (PCCU) is a busy 18-bed unit serving the local population and 5 district-general hospitals in the Thames Valley Area, supporting district hospitals across the Thames Valley and Wessex. We support a variety of specialist services including paediatric neurosurgery, craniofacial surgery, ENT, cardiology, respiratory, and haematology/oncology.
We are a Major Trauma Centre (MTC) responsible for the care of over 1000 adult and child major trauma cases per year and have a vibrant clinical research portfolio contributing to various national and international clinical trials.
Main duties of the job
The post holder's duties will be to provide tertiary specialist intensive care to children presenting to the John Radcliffe Hospital and other hospitals primarily in the Thames Valley and Wessex paediatric critical care retrieval network.
Clinical
The Paediatric Critical Care Unit in Oxford admits around 850-900 children per year, providing high dependency (Level 2) and intensive (Level 3) care. The unit supports medical specialties such as tertiary-level respiratory, cardiology, infectious disease, immunology, haematology and oncology, and gastroenterology.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country, providing a wide range of general and specialist clinical services.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Outline Job Plan Weekly Provisional Programmed Activities
A draft indicative timetable and Job Plan is outlined below. The final Job Plan will be agreed with the team and clinical director upon appointment and will be subject to renegotiation at least annually.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Full GMC with licence to practice
* MRCPCH
* GMC specialist register or CCT in Paediatrics or equivalent (via portfolio pathway) or within 6 months of achieving this at the time of the interview
* NTN level 3 GRID training in Paediatric Intensive Care or equivalent
* Trained to level 3 safeguarding
* Higher medical degree e.g. MD, PhD or evidence of working towards a higher academic degree
* APLS or equivalent course in date
Experience
* Previous experience at tertiary level in paediatric intensive care
* Comprehensive training in Paediatrics and all aspects of Paediatric Intensive Care
* Evidence of ability to make decisions at consultant level, to manage complex clinical problems and to liaise appropriately with colleagues
* Previous experience as Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care
Skills
* Excellent leadership skills and evidence of ability to lead a clinical team at the consultant level
* Effective administrative and time management skills
* Evidence of significant contribution to successful teamwork
* Good written English and highly developed communication and interpersonal skills
* Experience of formal and informal contributions to teaching and training
* Evidence of effective and sustained contribution to clinical governance and clinical audit activities
* Evidence of previous active participation in research
* UK Driving licence
* Training in clinical management
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Please ensure that you read the job description and person specification attached below and that your statement in support reflects this as your application will be judged against these criteria.
All candidates will be contacted with an update on the application. The majority of correspondence will be via the e-recruitment system, so check your emails regularly.
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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: James Weitz
Job title: Paediatric ITU Consultant
Email address: James.weitz@ouh.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 01865 741166
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