Locum Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care
This is a 10 PA locum appointment for a Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care. This post will be available from January 2026 for a period of 6 months. This post will support the PICU team. The post-holder will also support a 1:9 on-call rota. The post will be based at Leeds General Infirmary. The successful applicant should hold membership of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health or Royal College of Anaesthetists (or equivalent), and should be on the Specialist Register or within six months of being admitted to the Register for trainees if currently in a training programme within the UK, or have references which have been authorised by the Deputy Medical Director and Clinical Director. Applicants should have established skills in Paediatric Intensive Care and its related specialties. Excellent communication and team working skills, a strong commitment to teaching and service development are essential.
Consideration will be given to applicants who wish to work full or part time and those wishing to job share.
Responsibilities
Todeliver care to patients with critical illness including:
* Contribution to the First on (Lead); Second on (Support) and third on (HDU) roles in the department
* Manage General Medical patients
* Manage Medical and Surgical Cardiac patients
* Manage patients on Extracorporeal Life Support
* Manage Specialist surgery patients including Neurosurgery, Spinal surgery, Liver transplant and Renal transplant
* Be familiar with equipment, operational policies and staffing levels/competencies
* Liaise with Embrace and DGH colleagues regarding admission of Time Critical and other referrals
* Contribution to PCCU department and Governance meetings as well as active engagement with hospital wide and other specialty meetings
* Work with consultant colleagues in PCCU to deliver acute on call (currently 1 in 9). This includes acute ward rounds and unit management during normal working hours and regular out of hours commitment on the on-call rota
* Link with Consultant colleagues in other relevant site specialist teams within the Children’s Hospital and across the Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust and with colleagues in District General hospitals, Sheffield Children’s Hospital Foundation Trust and other regional transport services
* Contribute to research, teaching and new developments within the PICU. The post holder will be encouraged to facilitate and contribute to the current clinical research programmes in the department
Main duties of the job
OBJECTIVES OF THE POST
* Todeliver care to patients with critical illness including the items listed above
About us
PAEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE
This speciality is within the Leeds Children’s Hospital at Leeds General Infirmary.
The PICU is the regional lead centre. The unit admits 750 patients a year of which approximately 150 are retrieved from our referring district general hospitals by Embrace, the regional paediatric and neonatal retrieval service. The unit supports a range of services including cardiac and neurosurgery. Cardiac surgery accounts for over 350 cases per year. The LGI is a major neurology / neurosurgical centre with trauma, spinal, oncology and craniofacial surgical interests. The LGI is also the trauma and paediatric surgical centre for the city. The PICU also supports the onsite tertiary specialities including haematology, oncology and bone marrow transplant, hepatology including liver transplantation, and nephrology. There is a separate HDU which admits around 400 surgical and medical patients per year.
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Person Specification
Experience
* Must be able to demonstrate a high level of clinical experience and competence in the management of the critically ill child and children with congenital heart disease.
* Evidence of specialist training in Paediatric Intensive Care including Paediatric Cardiac Intensive care and Extracorporeal life support.
* Must be able to demonstrate higher professional training in paediatrics, anaesthesia or other related speciality.
* Level 2 Child Protection training.
* Evidence of continuous career progression consistent with personal circumstances.
* Should have completed sub speciality training for 2 years in rotation approved for Training in Paediatric intensive Care Medicine or equivalent.
* Experience in training undergraduate medical students and postgraduate doctors.
* Experience of participation in regular clinical audit. Understanding of current issues in the NHS.
* Well organised and skilled in good time management.
* Effective interpersonal skills.
* Demonstrate ability to relate to and work within a team.
* Medically fit to fulfil ALL aspects of the post, and to be able to respond quickly to emergencies, as necessary. Meets professional health requirements (in line with GMC standards).
* Previous attendance on Appraisal Techniques and Small Group Teaching Workshops.
* Attendance at recognised management course.
Eligibility and Fitness to Practice
* Eligible for full registration with the GMC at time of appointment and hold a current licence to practice.
* Eligibility to work in the UK.
* Fitness to practice is up to date and fit to practise safely.
* All applicants to have demonstrable skills in written and spoken English adequate to enable effective communication about medical topics with patients and colleagues demonstrated as follows: Applicants have undertaken undergraduate medical training in English. OR Achieved the minimum score of 7 across all 4 of the following categories in the academic International English Language Testing System (IELTS) in a single sitting within 24 months at time of application (Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing). (An overall minimum score of 7.5) OR Achieved the minimum Grade B across all 4 of the following categories in the Occupational English Test (OET) in medicine in a single sitting within 24 months at time of application.
* Application Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing. (You must provide your candidate number).
Additional Criteria
* Hold full GMC Registration with a license to practice.
* Entry on the GMC Specialist Register via:
o CCT (proposed CCT date must be within 6 months of interview)
o CESR (or)
o European Community Rights
Qualifications
* Membership Examination of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health or Royal College of Anaesthetists or equivalent postgraduate qualification.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
£109,725 to £145,478 a year+ Out of Hours
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