Chief Fellow- Paediatric Critical Care Medicine

Job overview

The chief fellow (transition to consultant) post is a clinical leadership and management development role, aimed at post graduate doctors who have completed their paediatric intensive care medicine and are awaiting a consultant post. The training completion can be either from the RCPCH PICM Grid program or an equivalent training programme. Key aspect of the role will include being supported to work at a consultant level based on your experience, engagement with higher departmental management opportunities which will be expected as a new consultant in PICM such as attendance at Directorate level meetings, teaching, governance opportunity such as PSIRF training and complaints investigation and conducting a project during their tenure, following one of the 5 domains of the Care Quality Commission: Safety, Effective, Caring, Responsiveness, Leadership.

On occasion, the chief fellow will start off their rotation in a senior fellow post, gaining an understanding of the department before moving into the chief role.

Main duties of the job

The chief fellow (CF) will be assigned to a bespoke rota similar to the consultant service week shift patterns (starting at 07:30hrs, finishing after the afternoon ward rounds, for 5 consecutive weekdays).

The chief fellow will be responsible for leading the ward rounds; planning treatments pathways in conjunction with the PICU multidisciplinary team (physio, pharmacist, registrars and nurses), discussing with consulting specialists, teach and support PICU post graduate doctors/ANP's/nurses and discussing management plans with parents.

Throughout the 'supervision week' the CF will be supported by the PICU Consultant on service.

The service week rotations will be done in the ‘three pods’ – sides A+B (CARDIAC ICU) +C. At the end of the day, the CF will actively seek feedback from the supporting PICU Consultant. At the end of the week the CF will actively seek written feedback from the supporting PICU Consultant on the attached form below (mandatory)

The CF will lead on multidisciplinary discussions where appropriate with the supervising consultant observing and CF will feedback to the parents where appropriate. The CF will also be assigned to a PANDA  PICU patient.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.

When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).

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