Consultant Paediatric Intensivist

Job overview

Join the Department of Paediatric Critical Care at Barts and The London Children's Hospital, an advanced facility located at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel. As the regional Pediatric Critical Care Unit (PCCU) for northeast London and Mid-East Essex, we offer comprehensive PICU, high-dependency, and major trauma services to local and regional populations. Our modern, well-equipped 10-bed unit, which admits approximately 400 patients annually, is situated next to the pediatric theatres and supports a range of individualized ventilation and critical care strategies.

Main duties of the job

Our unit works closely with the pan-London PIC forum and North Thames Paediatric Network, receiving patients from CATS, PANDR, and STRS retrieval teams to ensure the highest standard of care for deteriorating children. We place strong emphasis on research, quality improvement, and innovation, with established links to the Medicines for Children Research Network (MCRN) and regular multi-centre research collaborations. A 24-hour Pediatric Critical Care Outreach Team supports care across the pediatric wards and A&E, ensuring robust support in one of London’s busiest pediatric Major Trauma Centers. This position offers an exciting opportunity to work within a collaborative, well-supported environment that prioritizes excellence in critical care.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• -     To provide a high quality, accessible consultant led service in paediatric critical care. -      To deliver core clinical workload of the PCCU and administrative, managerial, and clinical governance responsibilities. We are happy to support a post-holder who has a complimentary interest, e.g., anaesthesia, research, cardiology, lecturing, sessional time DCC or SPA. This opportunity can be negotiated individually depending on necessary commitments. As the regional PCCU for northeast London the post holder, along with the other PCCU consultants, will be encouraged to form helpful links and support to our local hospitals.

To participate in the Paediatric Critical Care rota, to be up to date in Level 3 Safeguarding training and undertake appropriate review and action on cases admitted during attending weeks as well as support the development of the ward based HDU and LTV service.

To contribute to the training, development and education of medical and nursing staff and medical students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

• -       To foster multidisciplinary working and take an active role in developing clinical governance initiatives, by participation in multidisciplinary audit, clinical effectiveness initiatives, quality improvement and risk management. -       To review and modify current practice based on accepted techniques and use of evidence-based guidelines.

To be ‘in good standing’ with the RCPCH/RCOA or equivalent by making regular returns to the RCPCH/RCOA of CPD activities as required.