Trust Fellows in ECMO/Cardiac Intensive Care

Job overview

GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN NHS FOUNDATION TRUST

Clinical Fellowship Posts in the following area:

Trust Fellow (Equiv.  ST6+) in ECMO & Cardiac Intensive Care

Applications are invited for Clinical Fellowship positions in ECMO and Paediatric Cardiac Intensive Care at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust.

These posts are suitable for a specialty trainee (ST6 and above), equivalent trainee, or post CCST to gain additional specialist experience and open to both national and international applicants.

The Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Great Ormond Street Hospital with 19 commissioned beds is one of the largest in the UK dedicated to the care of children with congenital and acquired heart disease with over 700 admissions annually.

The unit provides comprehensive care for critically ill children with complex heart disease including nearly 600 open heart surgeries/year. In addition, the unit provides care for 5 highly specialised services which include extracorporeal life support (ECLS) for neonatal and paediatric respiratory failure, mechanical circulatory support including ventricular assist devices (VAD) programme, heart/lung transplantation (largest in Europe), dedicated national Tracheal programme and national paediatric Pulmonary Hypertension Service.

Main duties of the job

This trust post is tenable for 12 months. Applicants should have completed a minimum of 2 years of training at the equivalent of specialist registrar level in either paediatrics or anaesthesia in addition to two years of paediatric intensive care experience at registrar level and either six months cardiac intensive care or paediatric cardiology. This should include experience in managing patients with complex congenital heart disease and patients supported on extracorporeal life support including ventricular assist devices. The post holder will join other trust doctors and specialist registrars in the training programme for paediatric intensive care medicine.

Appointment will be at the equivalent of specialist trainee year 6 upwards depending on previous experience.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents please view the attachments.