Trust Fellow in Paediatric Intensive Care (ST3+ level)

About the role

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team. Applicants should have 2 years’ experience at specialist registrar level or equivalent in an acute speciality; paediatrics, anaesthesia, emergency medicine or paediatric surgery. Successful applicants must possess full GMC registration at time of application.

Responsibilities

• Attendance at and contribution to daily ward rounds/handovers
• Assessment, admission and management of critically ill children
• Lead resuscitations and emergency care
• Post-operative management of neurosurgical, orthopaedic, ENT, general surgical patients, bone marrow and kidney transplant recipients
• Participation in the North East Children’s Transport and Retrieval (NECTAR) rota in and out of hours, with increasing responsibility and autonomy as experience is gained

Requirements

• Primary medical qualification
• Full GMC registration with a licence to practise at time of application
• 2 years’ experience at specialist registrar level or equivalent in an acute speciality; paediatrics, anaesthesia, emergency medicine or paediatric surgery

Qualifications

Education And Qualifications

• Essential
  • Primary medical qualification
  • Full GMC registration with a licence to practise at time of application
  • 2 years’ experience at specialist registrar level or equivalent in an acute speciality; paediatrics, anaesthesia, emergency medicine or paediatric surgery
• Desirable
  • Experience in critical care (Level 3 neonatal unit or paediatric intensive care unit, or an adult intensive care unit)
  • Experience in Paediatric Anaesthesia (for anaesthetic applicants)
  • APLS provider or equivalent

Clinical Skills and Knowledge

• Essential
  • Good history & examination skills
  • Able to formulate a working diagnosis
  • Able to order appropriate investigations
  • Image interpretation relevant to practice
  • Knows when to appropriately seek assistance from a senior colleague
• Desirable
  • Technical skills:
    • Airway management including intubation
    • Ultrasound guided line insertion
  • NHS experience

Maintaining Clinical Competence

• Written evidence of satisfactory training to date e.g. workplace assessments

Teaching

• Experience of teaching undergraduate medical students & Foundation Doctors

Clinical Governance, Audit and Research

• Experience of audit projects