Job summary
We are delighted to offer an opportunity for an enthusiastic and well-motivated individual to join our team as a Locum Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care at the Great North Children's Hospital (GNCH), based at the Royal Victoria infirmary site in Newcastle upon Tyne. The successful applicant will join a team of clinicians who work in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit based at the Great North Children's Hospital and/or the North East and Cumbria Transport And Retrieval service (NECTAR).
GNCH Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) is the lead centre for paediatric critical care for the Northern Region. We admit children referred for intensive care from an area extending from the West Coast of Cumbria, north through Northumberland to the Scottish Borders, and extending southwards to North Yorkshire. There are approximately 3500 intensive care bed days per year. Day to day care of children in the PICU is managed and led by the team of PICU consultants in consultation with subspecialties as appropriate. Paediatric cardiothoracic services are currently based at the Freeman Hospital with a separate PICU and ECMO beds based there with a separate clinical team. Co-location on the RVI site will be made a priority, enabling best possible care for children.
Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Main duties of the job
This purpose of this joint consultant post is twofold.
Working in a team of paediatric intensivists, the successful candidate will play an important role in the day-to-day running and wider development of a state-of-the-art PICU that operates as the paediatric critical care hub for the North East and North Cumbria region. The Great North Children's Hospital also hosts a wide range of tertiary sub-specialities and a supra-regional immunodeficiency bone marrow transplant service that are all regular users of the PICU. Clinical duties will include consultant of the week and on call responsibilities.
In addition, the successful candidate will contribute to the day to the day running of the North East and Cumbria Transport and Retrieval paediatric service. The role will include both in hours and out of hours support for acute patient transport. This involves telephone triage and clinical support for referral for transport, liaison between the referring hospital and the acute services at GNCH as well as going out on retrieval.
There is the opportunity for the successful candidate to negotiate the time commitment to either of the services.
For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and organisation, please contact: Dr Rachel Agbeko on 0191 282 5333 or R, or Dr Raja Abouelella on 01912829420 or R.
About us
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We're also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around million patients 'contacts' each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve,and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people's race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical:
1. Contribute to the day to day running of the GNCH Paediatric Intensive Care Unit and the North East and Cumbria Transport and Retrieval
2. Contribute to GNCH PICU and NECTAR on-call rota
3. Responsibility for the paediatric intensive care unit including managing referrals and new admissions
4. Deliver and supervise transfer of critically ill children
5. Provide remote advice in the management of acutely ill children in their local hospital
6. Provide decision support for patient transfers within the region facilitated by NECTAR
Administrative:
7. To undertake general administrative duties within the wider context of Clinical Board Directorate and Trust aims and objectives
8. Excellent documentation of GNCH PICU activities
9. Excellent documentation of transport activities including discussions with clinicians for shared decision making
10. Timely review of NECTAR transfers and feedback on governance issues
11. Oversight of timely production of discharge summaries for patients on PICU
12. Maintain Continued Medical Education (CME) in accordance with guidelines stipulated by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) or relevant College
13. Participate in all aspects of Clinical Governance, making a significant contribution to multidisciplinary quality and safety activities in the care of children and their families. The aims of this process will include
- ensuring compliance with national guidelines relating to the care of children
- creating an environment of continuously seeking to improve the quality of that care
14. Undertake an annual appraisal and job plan review. It is expected that objectives within job plan reviews will be based on individual requirements and interests as well as service requirements and Trust objectives such as fulfilment of fixed contractual commitments on the basis of a 43 week working year with due allowance for statutory holidays
Research:
15. Participation in the GNCH PICU & NECTAR research programme
Enabling learning:
16. Contribution to and further development of the NECTAR regional education programme
17. Contribution to GNCH PICU team teaching programme, including training for GRID trainees, NECTAR fellows and APCCPs Participate in enabling learning of any other health care professionals within the department and Clinical Board
18. Participate in enabling learning of undergraduate medical students from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne during their attachments in Child Health. There will be opportunity for the appointee to be awarded Associate Clinical Lecturer status, at Newcastle University, for significant contributions. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to enabling learning of all levels of paediatric postgraduate Trainees. Active involvement is expected in the clinical supervision of all postgraduate trainees in the department.
Person Specification
Education, Qualifications and Specialist Skills
Essential
19. Primary Medical Qualification
20. Full GMC Registration
21. Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register (within 6 months from the date of the AAC)
22. MRCPCH or FRCA or equivalent
23. Evidence of training in Paediatric Intensive Care and Paediatric Critical Care Transport
Desirable
24. Higher Degree
25. Special skills training in the specialty
26. Leadership and management experience
27. International experience
Clinical Experience
Essential
28. Evidence of experience in the specialty
29. Evidence of a substantial commitment to the specialty
30. Ability to offer an expert clinical opinion within the speciality
31. Ability to take independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients referred to a tertiary centre
Management and Administration Experience
Essential
32. Involvement with management and project leadership within the specialty
33. Evidence of involvement in authoring or reviewing clinical guidelines
34. An understanding of Clinical Governance
Desirable
35. Proven management and administrative experience and understanding of management goals
36. Evidence of leadership / project management
37. Evidence of having implemented change
38. Experience in developing and implementing new technologies
Teaching
Essential
39. Experience of supervising junior medical staff
40. Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
41. Ability to teach clinical / technical / practical skills
Desirable
42. Attendance at courses to develop teaching skills
43. Postgraduate qualification in medical education
Research
Essential
44. Evidence of involvement in and understanding of research methodology and publication of findings
45. Research/critical review of literature
Desirable
46. Higher degree
47. Publications in the last five years
Audit
Essential
48. Evidence of participation in audit
Desirable
49. Evidence of having changed practice as a result of audit
50. Evidence of having revisited the audit to assess improvement
Personal Attributes
Essential
51. Alignment with the Trust's values
52. Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development
53. Committed to share in professional, managerial and teaching responsibilities necessary to fulfil the obligations of the Directorate to the Trust and its workforce
54. A commitment to personal / unit CPD
55. Ability and willingness to work the on-call rota
56. Ability and willingness to work a more flexible pattern of working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work