Locum Consultant in Paediatric Critical Care Medicine

Job overview

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust are delighted to invite applications for a Locum Consultant Paediatric Intensivist to join the Critical Care team based at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children (BRHC), this will be for an initial 9 month maternity leave cover.

Paediatric Critical Care at BRHC consists of an 18 bedded Paediatric Intensive Care in addition to 18 designated High Dependency beds distributed across the medical, surgical and cardiac specialist areas.  The Wales and West Acute Transport for Children service (WATCh) is the regional paediatric critical care transport and decision support service which takes approximately 1400 advice and referral calls annually, with approximately 500-600 transports performed each year. Together, we support the critical care needs for all the major sub-specialities hosted in our regional specialist paediatric hospital.  In addition, there is an active congenital cardiac surgery programme, specialist haematology, oncology and BMT services and the hospital is the designated regional Major Trauma Centre and is a national Burns Centre.  The service is recognised for training by the PICM ISAC and support general paediatricians to achieve the HDU SPIN competencies.  The successful candidate will work across all paediatric critical care areas (PIC/WATCh/HDU).

Main duties of the job

Applicants should be from a paediatric or anaesthetic background and those with a strong interest in management and leadership would be welcomed.  They should have completed a minimum of two years training in Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine and must either be on the Specialist Register in their base speciality or be a Specialist Registrar within six months of their expected date of receipt of a CCT / CESR(CP) at the time of interview. We are open to supporting the development of the successful candidate’s specialist interests through the job planning process.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for further details of this position