Job summary
OXFORD UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
The Paediatric Critical Care (PCC) departments at Oxford University Hospital (OUH), Oxford, UK invite applications for Paediatric Trauma and Retrieval Medicine Fellow post.
Clinical Fellow (ST7-ST8) posts in Paediatric Trauma and Paediatric Critical Care Medicine
Posts commencing from February 2025.
Fixed Term posts lasting 12 months
We are pleased to offer a 12 months post at Oxford University Hospitals Paediatric Critical Care and Southampton and Oxford Retrieval (SORT) service. The post is dedicated to developing the management of paediatric trauma pathway within our region while out of hours commitments will be with the Southampton and Oxford Retrieval Service.
This post would be a dedicated stand-alone fellow post working across specialties within the Oxford University hospitals, coordinating the specialist care for paediatric trauma patients, while building substantive education roles across the region and pre-hospitably to improve paediatric trauma management across our network.
Main duties of the job
Paediatric Trauma
Oxford University Hospital (OUH) is a paediatric major trauma centre and manages paediatric trauma patents presenting locally, or transferred to OUH following presentation to one of the district general hospitals in Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire. We expect that the trauma fellow will be involved throughout the patient journey at OUH, from stabilization of the patient in ED, through admission to paediatric critical care and the rehabilitation pathway as needed. Their day time work will be focused on the trauma pathway and its delivery and development.
Southampton and Oxford Retrieval Service (SORT), Paediatric Critical Care, Oxford University Hospital
The Paediatric Critical Care (PCC) unit provides intensive and high dependency care to the local population and children of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire as well as further afield. It comprises an eight-bedded Intensive Care Area and an adjacent eight-bedded High Dependency ward
Paediatric Intensive Care retrievals from the Oxford region are managed on a 24-hour basis jointly with Southampton General Hospital under the umbrella of the Southampton Oxford Retrieval Team (SORT). SORT provides support to over 15 District General Hospitals in the combined South Central Region. Successful applicants will work out of hours as a retrieval fellow, undertaking independent retrievals of critically ill children between the DGHs and OUH.
About us
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.
We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Day time work will include:
Time allowed for office work/EDT/guidelines
Time to attend rehab pathway
Time to attend trauma meeting
Time to attend PICU to support the management of trauma patient
The trauma pathway
- Trauma meeting screens meeting at 0800. All trauma case are discussed approx. 1hr
- Trauma coordinator team and trauma rehab team
- Working with paeds to see what need of in-patients are
- 0745- neurosurgery screens meeting- paeds case discussed first
- Attend all paeds trauma calls
- Follow patients from trauma call to theatre to rehabilitation on the ward
- Undertake / ensure secondary and tertiraty survery completion in ED/PICU/ward
- Clinical Governance trauma meeting- every other week
Job description
Job responsibilities
Day time work will include:
Time allowed for office work/EDT/guidelines
Time to attend rehab pathway
Time to attend trauma meeting
Time to attend PICU to support the management of trauma patient
The trauma pathway
- Trauma meeting screens meeting at 0800. All trauma case are discussed approx. 1hr
- Trauma coordinator team and trauma rehab team
- Working with paeds to see what need of in-patients are
- 0745- neurosurgery screens meeting- paeds case discussed first
- Attend all paeds trauma calls
- Follow patients from trauma call to theatre to rehabilitation on the ward
- Undertake / ensure secondary and tertiraty survery completion in ED/PICU/ward
- Clinical Governance trauma meeting- every other week
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Full GMC with licence to practice
- MBBS or equivalent
- FRCA or MRCPCH or equivalent
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- A minimum of 4 years training in paediatrics / anaesthetics / ICM / Emergency Medicine / Orthopaedics / paed surgery
- A minimum of two years at a registrar level
- Experience of teaching and presenting
- Evidence of leading an impactful QI project
- Previous intensive care experience
Desirable
- Critical care transport experience
- Experience of pre hospital medicine
- Postgraduate diploma in education
Skills
Essential
- Good spoken and written English.
- Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills.
- APLS
- ATLS or equivalent
- Excellent leadership skills.
- Ability to work under pressure in a multi-disciplinary environment
- Able to work within multidisciplinary teams
- Able to prioritise and manage time effectively
- Adaptable
- Able to work under pressure
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Full GMC with licence to practice
- MBBS or equivalent
- FRCA or MRCPCH or equivalent
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- A minimum of 4 years training in paediatrics / anaesthetics / ICM / Emergency Medicine / Orthopaedics / paed surgery
- A minimum of two years at a registrar level
- Experience of teaching and presenting
- Evidence of leading an impactful QI project
- Previous intensive care experience
Desirable
- Critical care transport experience
- Experience of pre hospital medicine
- Postgraduate diploma in education
Skills
Essential
- Good spoken and written English.
- Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills.
- APLS
- ATLS or equivalent
- Excellent leadership skills.
- Ability to work under pressure in a multi-disciplinary environment
- Able to work within multidisciplinary teams
- Able to prioritise and manage time effectively
- Adaptable
- Able to work under pressure
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
