Paediatric Trauma & Retrieval Fellow

Job overview

Paediatric Trauma and Critical Care Fellowship

(ST7 level and above Equivalent)

Fellowship in Paediatric Trauma and Critical Care

Applications are invited to apply for the above post at the Children’s Hospital Oxford.

Candidates are invited to contact Dr Avishay Sarfatti at Oxford University Hospital (OUH) PCC.

Post commencing from March 2027 fixed term for 12 months

Main duties of the job

Paediatric Trauma

Oxford University Hospital (OUH) is a paediatric major trauma centre and manages paediatric trauma patents presenting locally, or transferred to OUH following presentation to one of the district general hospitals in Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire. We expect that the trauma fellow will be involved throughout the patient journey at OUH, from stabilization of the patient in ED, through admission to paediatric critical care and the rehabilitation pathway as needed. Their day time work will be focused on the trauma pathway and its delivery and development.

Southampton and Oxford Retrieval Service (SORT), Paediatric Critical Care, Oxford University Hospital

The Paediatric Critical Care (PCC) unit provides intensive and high dependency care to the local population and children of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire as well as further afield. It comprises an eight-bedded Intensive Care Area and an adjacent eight-bedded High Dependency ward

Paediatric Intensive Care retrievals from the Oxford region are managed on a 24-hour basis jointly with Southampton General Hospital under the umbrella of the Southampton Oxford Retrieval Team (SORT). SORT provides support to over 15 District General Hospitals in the combined South Central Region. Successful applicants will work out of hours as a retrieval fellow, undertaking independent retrievals of critically ill children between the DGHs and OUH.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Day time work will include:

Time allowed for office work/EDT/guidelines

Time to attend rehab pathway

Time to attend trauma meeting

Time to attend PICU to support the management of trauma patient

The trauma pathway

• - Trauma meeting – screens meeting at 0800. All trauma case are discussed approx. 1hr - Trauma coordinator team and trauma rehab team - Working with paeds to see what need of in-patients are - 0745- neurosurgery screens meeting- paeds case discussed first - Attend all paeds trauma calls - Follow patients from trauma call to theatre to rehabilitation on the ward - Undertake / ensure secondary and tertiraty survery completion in ED/PICU/ward - Clinical Governance trauma meeting- every other week

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.