Job summary
Employer heading
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:
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Mon |
Tues |
Wed |
Thurs |
Fri |
Sat |
Sun |
PA |
W1 |
SD |
SD |
SD |
SD |
SD |
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11.25 |
W2 |
SPAx2 |
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SPA |
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OC |
9.5 |
W3 |
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MDT/PRA |
SPAx2 |
OC |
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8.25 |
W4 |
SPAx2 |
OC |
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COC |
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|
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10.75 |
W5 |
SPAx2 |
PRAx2 |
OC |
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|
|
8.25 |
W6 |
OC |
|
SPAx2 |
MDT/PRA |
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8.25 |
W7 |
SPAx2 |
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PRAx2 |
|
OC |
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|
8.25 |
W8 |
COC |
|
SPAx2 |
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|
|
COC |
10 |
W9 |
|
PRA/MDT |
SPAx2 |
SPAx2 |
PRAx2 |
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8 |
W10 |
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SPAx2 |
COC |
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|
OC |
|
12 |
W11 |
SPAx2 |
OC |
|
PRAx2 |
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|
|
8.25 |
W12 |
SD |
SD |
SD |
SD |
SD |
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11.25 |
W13 |
SPAx2 |
SPA |
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OC |
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|
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8.25 |
W14 |
OC |
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SPAx2 |
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|
COC |
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9.75 |
W15 |
SPAx2 |
PRAx2 |
MDTx2 |
SPA |
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8 |
W16 |
SPAx2 |
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OC |
|
|
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6.25 |
W17 |
SPAx2 |
SPA |
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|
|
OC |
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9.5 |
W18 |
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COC |
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|
OC |
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8.75 |
W19 |
SPAx2 |
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MDT/PRA |
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|
OC |
9.5 |
W20 |
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PRAx2 |
SPAx2 |
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COC |
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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)
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
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
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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