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Oxford University Hospitals
Location:
Oxford, United Kingdom
Job Category:
Other
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Yes
Job Reference:
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Job Views:
2
Posted:
19.03.2025
Expiry Date:
03.05.2025
Job Description:
Job overview
The Paediatric Critical Care Unit (PCCU) is a busy unit serving the local population and district-general hospitals in the Thames Valley (TV) Area and supporting district hospitals across the Thames Valley and Wessex. The paediatric critical care transport and retrieval service is called the Southampton Oxford Retrieval Service (SORT). It is a joint venture run as a 24-hour, 7-day-a-year service with teams available from both Oxford and Southampton sites. We support a variety of specialist services including paediatric neurosurgery, craniofacial surgery, ENT, cardiology, respiratory, and haematology/oncology in conjunction with the specialist teams.
We are a Major Trauma Centre (MTC) and the hub for the Thames Valley major trauma network, responsible for the care of over adult and child major trauma cases per year. We have a vibrant clinical research portfolio contributing to a variety of national and international clinical trials. We jointly run and staff a 24-hour paediatric critical care transport and retrieval service in conjunction with University Hospitals Southampton (SORT).
Main duties of the job
Principal Activities
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 - children per year. The Unit provides high dependency (Level 2) and intensive (Level 3) care to children in the Thames Valley and Wessex region.
The unit supports medical specialties such as tertiary-level respiratory, cardiology, infectious disease and immunology, haematology and oncology, and gastroenterology. We are a major trauma centre and provide emergency and elective paediatric neurosurgery. We also have nationally recognized cleft lip and palate, ENT, plastic surgery, and craniofacial services, all of which depend on Oxford PCCU for post-operative care.
There are whole-time equivalent posts and these posts have been made with increased funding from NHSE for the expansion of the SORT retrieval service in Oxford to allow 24-hour cover from both Oxford and Southampton. The consultant group includes people with both anaesthetic and paediatric backgrounds who have a diverse range of interests including point-of-care ultrasound, echocardiography, clinical and academic research, and education and simulation.
Working for our organisation
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, 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.
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