Medical Specialty Trainee in Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine (PICM)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Intensive Care Medicine

The case mix is predominantly medical with trauma and surgical patients make up about 20%. Around 95% of our admissions are emergencies with the remainder being high-risk surgical cases including, colo-rectal, robotic urological procedures and cervical spinal surgery cases. There are about 80 paediatric admissions and stabilisations a year the vast majority of which are retrieved via the Southampton and Oxford Retrieval Team (SORT). The Trust is a tertiary referral cancer centre and includes all specialties except neurosurgery, transplant, vascular and cardiothoracic surgery. The trust has a primary coronary angioplasty service with the fastest door to needle times in the country as well as the fastest door to needle times for stroke thrombolysis. There is an excellent interventional radiology department staffed by five consultants. We also get excellent support from our microbiology department with daily ward rounds on the ICU.

Anaesthesia section

The successful candidate would join an enthusiastic and friendly anaesthetic department for six months of their placement. They will develop competence in assessing and managing a wide range of elective and emergency theatre cases under appropriate supervision. Surgical specialities delivered at RBH include orthopaedics, general surgery, urology (including robotic cases), ENT, dental, gynaecology and bariatrics. The trainee will have a named educational supervisor to ensure they get the most out of their time with us. The trainee will be encouraged and supported to complete quality improvement projects and will be supported to attend the teaching on offer e.g. monthly simulation and weekly teaching sessions.

Research

We have a strong urgent care research team running clinical trials across the ICU, ED and AMU. Dr Walden and Dr Keating run the Urgent Care research team of five research nurses and a research assistant

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• MB ChB, MBBS or equivalent MRCPCH or equivalent GMC registration

Desirable

• Educational diploma or equivalent

Experience

Essential

• Minimum of 1 years' experience in Paediatric Intensive Care medicine Experience of working in a Paediatric retrieval team

Desirable

• Provider status in one of the following: ALS, ATLS, or APLS

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Berkshire Hospital

London Road

Reading

RG1 5AN

Employer's website

https://www.royalberkshire.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)