Job summary
We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team.
The successful applicant will join a team of clinicians who work for the paediatric intensive care units based at the Freeman Hospital, the Great North Children's Hospital, and the transport service, North East & Cumbria Transport and Retrieval (NECTAR).
Candidates must possess MRCPCH, FRCA or equivalent and show evidence of training and experience in Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine, including experience in ECMO, mechanical support for heart failure and cardiac transplantation.
In addition to the challenges of the role, we can offer you a commitment to teaching, education, research and audit.
Candidates for the post must be registered medical practitioners and on, or eligible to join, the Specialist Register within six months of the date of the Appointments Committee.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Main duties of the job
Working in a team of paediatric intensivists across the two units, the successful candidate will play an important role in the day-to-day running and wider development of a state-of-the-art paediatric critical care service that operates as the regional hub, serving several District General Hospitals.
This post will include clinical responsibilities across both units, including consultant of the week and on call responsibilities. There will also be appropriate SPA time and the ability to develop personal interests within the units.
The division of commitment is half time across the 2 PICUs in the Trust. Clinical workload to both is a fully flexible annualised job plan.
For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: Dr Liz Day, Head of Department, GNCH PICU on 0191 2821881 or elisabeth.day3@nhs.net or Dr Yamuna Thiru, Head of Department, FRH PICU on 0191 2448374 or Yamuna.thiru@nhs.net
Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.
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 1.84 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:
Contribute to the day to day running of the FRH Paediatric Cardiac Intensive Care and the GNCH Paediatric Intensive Care Units
Contribute to cardiac and general PICU on-call rota
Responsibility for the paediatric intensive care unit including managing referrals and new admissions
Participate in advice on retrieval of critically ill children via NECTAR when required
Provide remote advice in the management of acutely ill children at the DGHs within the region.
Provide decision support for patient transfers within the region facilitated by NECTAR.
The FH paediatric intensive care has 12 beds and 6 HDU beds. You would be working with the intensive care team to provide consultant-led care for our patients. We provide a full range of intensive care support including ECMO (VA and VV) and VAD mechanical cardiac support.
Administrative:
To undertake general administrative duties within the wider context of Directorate and Trust aims and objectives.
Oversight of timely production of discharge summaries for patients on PICU.
Excellent documentation of PICU activities.
Maintain Continued Medical Education (CME) in accordance with guidelines stipulated by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH).
Participate in all aspects of Clinical Governance, making a significant contribution to multidisciplinary audit and risk management activities in the care of children and their families. The aims of audit will include:
ensuring compliance with national guidelines relating to the care of children;
helping to create an environment of continuously seeking to improve the quality of that care
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 42 week working year with due allowance for statutory holidays.
Research:
Participation in the Trustwide paediatric critical care research programme
Enabling Learning:
Contribution to paediatric critical care education programmes, including involvement with PICM GRID training. Participate in enabling learning of any other health care professionals within the departments and Directorates
Participate in enabling learning of undergraduate medical students from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in all parts of the course but specifically in stage 3 and 5 during the attachments in Child Health
The incumbent will be expected to contribute to enabling learning of all levels of paediatric postgraduate Trainees. Active involvement in the clinical supervision of all postgraduate trainees in the Trust.
Flexibility:
In line with the Trusts core value of placing patients at the heart of everything we do, we are developing our service provision to be responsive to the needs of our patients. To meet those needs some staff groups will be increasingly asked to work a more flexible work pattern so that they can offer services in the evening or weekend. As a result any offer of employment to a consultant post will be subject to you agreeing to work a new more flexible pattern or working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work.
Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical:
Contribute to the day to day running of the FRH Paediatric Cardiac Intensive Care and the GNCH Paediatric Intensive Care Units
Contribute to cardiac and general PICU on-call rota
Responsibility for the paediatric intensive care unit including managing referrals and new admissions
Participate in advice on retrieval of critically ill children via NECTAR when required
Provide remote advice in the management of acutely ill children at the DGHs within the region.
Provide decision support for patient transfers within the region facilitated by NECTAR.
The FH paediatric intensive care has 12 beds and 6 HDU beds. You would be working with the intensive care team to provide consultant-led care for our patients. We provide a full range of intensive care support including ECMO (VA and VV) and VAD mechanical cardiac support.
Administrative:
To undertake general administrative duties within the wider context of Directorate and Trust aims and objectives.
Oversight of timely production of discharge summaries for patients on PICU.
Excellent documentation of PICU activities.
Maintain Continued Medical Education (CME) in accordance with guidelines stipulated by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH).
Participate in all aspects of Clinical Governance, making a significant contribution to multidisciplinary audit and risk management activities in the care of children and their families. The aims of audit will include:
ensuring compliance with national guidelines relating to the care of children;
helping to create an environment of continuously seeking to improve the quality of that care
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 42 week working year with due allowance for statutory holidays.
Research:
Participation in the Trustwide paediatric critical care research programme
Enabling Learning:
Contribution to paediatric critical care education programmes, including involvement with PICM GRID training. Participate in enabling learning of any other health care professionals within the departments and Directorates
Participate in enabling learning of undergraduate medical students from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in all parts of the course but specifically in stage 3 and 5 during the attachments in Child Health
The incumbent will be expected to contribute to enabling learning of all levels of paediatric postgraduate Trainees. Active involvement in the clinical supervision of all postgraduate trainees in the Trust.
Flexibility:
In line with the Trusts core value of placing patients at the heart of everything we do, we are developing our service provision to be responsive to the needs of our patients. To meet those needs some staff groups will be increasingly asked to work a more flexible work pattern so that they can offer services in the evening or weekend. As a result any offer of employment to a consultant post will be subject to you agreeing to work a new more flexible pattern or working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work.
Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person Specification
Education, Qualifications and Specialist Skills
Essential
- Primary Medical Qualification
- Full GMC Registration at time of application
- Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register (within 6 months from the date of the AAC).
- MRCPCH or FRCA or equivalent
- Evidence of training in Paediatric Intensive Care
- Evidence of experience in the specialty, including ECMO, Mechanical support for Heart Failure and cardiac transplantation
Desirable
- Higher Degree
- Special skills training in the specialty
- Leadership and management experience
Clinical Experience
Essential
- Evidence of experience in the specialty
- Evidence of a substantial commitment to the specialty
- Ability to offer an expert clinical opinion within the specialty
- Ability to take independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients referred to a tertiary centre
Management and Administration Experience
Essential
- Involvement with management and project leadership within the specialty.
- Evidence of involvement in authoring or reviewing clinical guidelines
- An understanding of Clinical Governance
Desirable
- Proven management and administrative experience and understanding of management goals
- Evidence of leadership / project management
- Evidence of having implemented change
- Experience in developing and implementing new technologies
Teaching
Essential
- Experience of supervising junior medical staff
- Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
- Ability to teach clinical / technical / practical skills
Desirable
- Attendance at courses to develop teaching skills
- Postgraduate qualification in medical education
Research
Essential
- Evidence of involvement in and understanding of research methodology and publication of findings.
- Research/critical review of literature
Desirable
- Higher degree
- Publications in the last five years
Audit/Quality Improvement
Essential
- Evidence of participation in audit/QI
Desirable
- Evidence of having changed practice as a result of audit.
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Alignment with the Trust's values
- Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development
- Committed to share in professional, managerial and teaching responsibilities necessary to fulfil the obligations of the Directorate to the Trust and its workforce.
- A commitment to personal / unit CPD
- Ability and willingness to work the on-call rota.
- Ability and willingness to work a more flexible pattern of working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work
Person Specification
Education, Qualifications and Specialist Skills
Essential
- Primary Medical Qualification
- Full GMC Registration at time of application
- Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register (within 6 months from the date of the AAC).
- MRCPCH or FRCA or equivalent
- Evidence of training in Paediatric Intensive Care
- Evidence of experience in the specialty, including ECMO, Mechanical support for Heart Failure and cardiac transplantation
Desirable
- Higher Degree
- Special skills training in the specialty
- Leadership and management experience
Clinical Experience
Essential
- Evidence of experience in the specialty
- Evidence of a substantial commitment to the specialty
- Ability to offer an expert clinical opinion within the specialty
- Ability to take independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients referred to a tertiary centre
Management and Administration Experience
Essential
- Involvement with management and project leadership within the specialty.
- Evidence of involvement in authoring or reviewing clinical guidelines
- An understanding of Clinical Governance
Desirable
- Proven management and administrative experience and understanding of management goals
- Evidence of leadership / project management
- Evidence of having implemented change
- Experience in developing and implementing new technologies
Teaching
Essential
- Experience of supervising junior medical staff
- Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
- Ability to teach clinical / technical / practical skills
Desirable
- Attendance at courses to develop teaching skills
- Postgraduate qualification in medical education
Research
Essential
- Evidence of involvement in and understanding of research methodology and publication of findings.
- Research/critical review of literature
Desirable
- Higher degree
- Publications in the last five years
Audit/Quality Improvement
Essential
- Evidence of participation in audit/QI
Desirable
- Evidence of having changed practice as a result of audit.
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Alignment with the Trust's values
- Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development
- Committed to share in professional, managerial and teaching responsibilities necessary to fulfil the obligations of the Directorate to the Trust and its workforce.
- A commitment to personal / unit CPD
- Ability and willingness to work the on-call rota.
- Ability and willingness to work a more flexible pattern of working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
