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Job summary

Main area
Paediatric Critical Care
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months (12 months)
Hours
Full time - 10 sessions per week (Some weekend on-call commitments)
Job ref
164-6342024
Employer
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Queen's Medical Centre
Town
Nottingham
Salary
£99,532 - £131,964 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
17/07/2024 23:59

Employer heading

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Locum Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care

NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant

Job overview

We are seeking a 10 PA Locum Consultant Paediatric Intensivist for Nottingham Children’s Hospital at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and Comet, the East Midlands Paediatric Transport Service. This is an excellent opportunity to join a dynamic team of consultant paediatric intensivists. The team of paediatric intensive care consultants work very closely together, providing a very supportive group and is therefore an ideal environment for new consultant appointments. The wide clinical exposure across a variety of tertiary and quaternary children’s specialties is intellectually and practically stimulating and also very rewarding.

Main duties of the job

The following Job Plan reflects our best assessment of what the final plan will be, based on 10 PAs.  Please see the Job Description for further details:

 

Mon

Tues

Wed

Thurs

Fri

Sat

Sun

 PA

W1

SD

SD

SD

SD

SD

 

 

11.25

W2

SPAx2

 

 

SPA

 

 

OC

9.5

W3

 

MDT/PRA

 SPAx2

OC

 

 

 

8.25

W4

SPAx2

OC

 

COC

 

 

 

10.75

W5

SPAx2

PRAx2

OC

 

 

 

 

8.25

W6

OC

 

SPAx2

MDT/PRA

 

 

 

8.25

W7

SPAx2

 

PRAx2

 

OC

 

 

8.25

W8

COC

 

 SPAx2

 

 

 

COC

10

W9

 

PRA/MDT

SPAx2

SPAx2

 PRAx2

 

 

8

W10

 

 SPAx2

COC

 

 

OC

 

12

W11

SPAx2

OC

 

PRAx2

 

 

 

8.25

W12

SD

SD

SD

SD

SD

 

 

11.25

W13

SPAx2

SPA

 

OC

 

 

 

8.25

W14

OC

 

SPAx2

 

 

COC

 

9.75

W15

SPAx2

PRAx2

MDTx2

 SPA

 

 

 

8

W16

SPAx2

 

OC

 

 

 

 

6.25

W17

SPAx2

SPA

 

 

 

OC

 

9.5

W18

 

COC

 

 

OC

 

 

8.75

W19

SPAx2

 

MDT/PRA

 

 

 

OC

9.5

W20

 

PRAx2

 SPAx2

 

COC

 

 

8.5

Legend: SD: service Day; OC: unit on-call; COC: comet on-call; SPA: Supporting professional activities; PRA: patient related admin; MDT: Multi-disciplinary meetings.

The job plan reflects the actual service and on-call commitment in a 20 week period

 

Working for our organisation

Nottingham Children’s Hospital at QMC is mainly situated in East Block on D and E floors:

  • Five in-patient wards - 110 Beds 
  • The Paediatric Critical Care Unit – 14 Beds (flexible between intensive care and high dependency)
  • An Oncology Day Case Unit with anaesthetic facilities
  •  A Teenage Cancer ward
  • A Short Stay unit for observation of the acutely ill child
  • A large Hospital school
  • The Academic Division of Child Health (University of Nottingham School of Human Development) 
  • Neonatal Intensive Care Unit - 20 Beds (B floor) – about to be expanded to 32 cots.
  • Children’s outpatient department with 30 000 attendances per year (B floor)
  • A separate children’s A and E department sees over 40,000 children per year (A floor)

Nottingham is the Lead Centre for PCCU in North East Midlands and since April 2012 has become East Midlands Major Trauma Centre.

The Paediatric Critical Care area admitted 563 patients in 2023 (469 emergencies). We delivery about 5000 bed days per year, of which invasively ventilated (ETT and tracheostomy) and NIV bed days are approximately 2000 each. Our PIM3 adjusted SMR for 2021 was 1.34.

We support a variety of specialist services including:

  • Supra-regional nephrology and renal replacement treatment, including kidney transplants
  • Supra-regional spinal surgery
  • Regional neurosurgery
  • Regional oncology
  • The busiest Major Trauma Centre in the UK
  • Regional neurology
  • Regional paediatric ENT
  • Regional general paediatric surgery

 

 

 

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further details of the main responsibilities for this post, please see the attached job description.

Person specification

Professional Registration

Essential criteria
  • Full GMC registration
  • Eligible to be included on the Specialist Register
  • CCT expected within 6 months of interview date

Professional Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • MRCP/MRCPCH/FRCA/FRCS or equivalent.
Desirable criteria
  • Higher professional degree

Clinical Skills/Experience

Essential criteria
  • Has completed training in Paediatric Intensive Care as specified by RCPCH PICM CSAC or training assessed to be equivalent by the GMC OR Existing practicing substantive consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care
  • Substantial experience in the transfer of critically ill children
  • Evidenced technical skills as described in the job description
  • APLS provider
Desirable criteria
  • Specific training in communication skills
  • Specific training in patient safety and/or human factors
  • APLS instructor

Management Skills

Essential criteria
  • Able to develop, present and operationalise coherent ideas for service development/delivery
Desirable criteria
  • Higher management degree or qualification or training
  • Experience of change management

Personal Skills/Qualities

Essential criteria
  • Able to use the Trust’s IT support systems

Teaching, Audit & Research

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of participation in Clinical Audit
  • Able to teach and support junior staff effectively
Desirable criteria
  • Original Research
  • Publications
  • Higher teaching degree or qualification or training

Practical Requirements

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of Level 3 Safeguarding Children (Paediatric positions only)

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Dr Shrirang Alurkar
Job title
Clinical lead
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0115 9249924
Additional information

Dr Shrirang Alurkar (Clinical Lead)

0115 9249924 ext 81232

Dr Georgina Harlow (COMET Lead)

Tel 0115 9249924 ext 87503

[email protected]

Additionally, Consultant applicants are encouraged to visit Anthony May, the Chief Executive, as part of the selection process. His PA can be contacted on Tel 0115 9691169 ext 76007

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