Consultant PAEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE (PICU)

Job summary

The Paediatric Critical Care Unit (PCCU) is a busy 18-bed unit serving the local population and 5 district-general hospitals in the Thames Valley (TV) Area andsupporting district hospitals across the Thames Valley and Wessex. The paediatric critical care transport and retrieval service is called the Southampton Oxford Retrieval Service (SORT). It is a joint venture run as a 24-hour, 365-day-a-year service with teams available from both Oxford and Southampton sites. We support a variety of specialist services including paediatric neurosurgery, craniofacial surgery, ENT, cardiology, respiratory and haematology/oncology in conjunction with the specialist teams.

We are a Major Trauma Centre (MTC) and the hub for the Thames Valley major trauma network, responsible for the care of over 1000 adult and child major trauma cases per year. We have a vibrant clinical research portfolio contributing to a variety of national and international clinical trials. We jointly run and staff a 24-hour paediatric critical care transport and retrieval service in conjunction with University Hospitals Southampton (SORT).

Main duties of the job

Principal Activities

The post holder's duties will be to provide tertiary specialist intensive care to children presenting to the John Radcliffe Hospital and other hospitals primarily in the Thames Valley and Wessex paediatric critical care retrieval network.

Clinical

The Paediatric Critical Care Unit in Oxford admits around 850-900 children per year. The Unit provides high dependency (Level 2) and intensive (Level 3) care to children in the Thames Valley and Wessex region.

The unit supports medical specialities such as tertiary-level respiratory, cardiology, infectious disease and immunology, haematology and oncology, and gastroenterology. We are a major trauma centre and provide emergency and elective paediatric neurosurgery. We also have nationally recognised cleft lip and palate, ENT, plastic surgery, and craniofacial services, all of which depend on Oxford PCCU for post-operative care.

There are 8 whole-time equivalent posts and these posts have been made with increased funding from NHSE for the expansion of the SORT retrieval service in Oxford to allow 24-hour cover from both Oxford and Southampton. The consultant group includes people with both anaesthetic and paediatric backgrounds who have a diverse range of interests including point-of-care ultrasound, echocardiography, clinical and academic research and education and simulation.

About us

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.

We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.