Clinical Fellows Paediatric Critical Care- NICU, PICU, CICU, CATS ST6+

Job summary

The critical care departments at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), London, UK, invite applications for a training fellowship in intensive care medicinefor children, which will start on the Neonatal Intensive care unit (NICU). Rotations can include time on the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU), and the Children's Acute Transport Service (CATS).

We are able offer bespoke paediatric and neonatal critical care placements for an anaesthetist, paediatrician, cardiologist, paediatric emergency physician or other relevant specialty wishing to gain paediatric intensive care medicine (PICM) experience. This could be a 6-24-months NICU/PICU/CICU/CATS placement, or alternatively, a two-year fellowship (including PICU, CICU and CATS) for those wishing to train as paediatric intensivists. Experienced PICM applicants approaching consultant level may wish to spend time on the 'PICU senior tier' - a pre-consultant leadership role with the opportunity to lead ward rounds and run the shop floor.

In addition, we offer time on the NICU/PICU/CICU within this application as stand-alone 6-12 -months posts. We welcome applications from registrars from a range of backgrounds with a range of experience and can discuss individual training needs.

Please direct queries about your training needs to Dr Mirjana Cvetkovic, Training Programme Director for PICM at GOSH mirjana.cvetkovic@gosh.nhs.uk

Main duties of the job

Main duties and responsibilities

1. ICU weekly duties and timetableAs a tertiary/quaternary referral hospital many of the patients seen here are extremely complex and encompass all specialities. The consultant intensivists are fully committed to intensive care with no other clinical responsibilities, so all care is consultant led.The department provides facilities for complex monitoring and treatment procedures, including different techniques for mechanical ventilatory support, intracranial pressure monitoring and continuous veno-venous haemofiltration. Advanced support includes ECMO/VAD which is carried out in the CICU. There is separate consultant cover for PICU, NICU, CICU and CATS with two consultant led ward rounds on each unit every day. Formalised unit teaching activities are arranged around weekly teaching days and one monthly teaching day involving fellows from other North London PICUs. Bedside and ward-based teaching is provided within each unit. There is a hospital Grand Round at lunchtime on Wednesday.The appointees will be required to take a share in all activities of the unit. This will include partaking in "on call" duties, which are an integral part of the full shift as outlined. Although an agreed duty rota is carefully followed, occasional emergency cover may be required. Unit and hospital protocols exist, and the post-holder is expected to adopt management which takes note of these.

About us

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust (GOSH) is an international centre of excellence in child healthcare. GOSH is an acute specialist paediatric hospital with a mission to provide world-class care to children and young people with rare, complex and difficult-to-treat conditions.

Together with our research partner, the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, we form the UK's only academic Biomedical Research Centre specialising in paediatrics.

Most of the children we care for are referred from other hospitals throughout the UK and overseas. There are 60 nationally recognised clinical specialities at GOSH; the UK's widest range of specialist health services for children on one site. We believe our people are the head, the heart, the hands and the face of GOSH. Being part of our team is incredibly rewarding and you will be doing something extraordinary to the lives of the children and young people we care for. GOSH is a challenging, complex and inspiring place to work. Each and every day our people come together to support each other to deliver excellent patient care, often working to help our patients and their families navigate through demanding processes and difficult decisions.

Creating a working environment where all our people are valued for who they are as well as what they do, and where they enjoy their work and coming into work, is everybody's job and is in everybody's interests