We are seeking a 10 PA Locum Consultant Paediatric Intensivist for Nottingham Children's Hospital at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and CoMET, the East Midlands Paediatric Transport Service. CoMET is now based on Castle Donington in a purpose facility (DE74 2NP). This is an excellent opportunity to join a dynamic team of consultant paediatric intensivists in this RCPCH approved PICM grid training centre. The team of paediatric intensive care consultants work very closely together, providing a very supportive group and is therefore an ideal environment for new consultant appointments. The wide clinical exposure across a variety of tertiary and quaternary children’s specialties is intellectually and practically stimulating and also very rewarding.
The successful applicant will have responsibility both for Paediatric Critical Care Unit work and for Transport service work (approximately 25% of DCC). The balance between these responsibilities is negotiable with the clinical team. Please see the Job Description for further details. Working for our organisation Nottingham Children’s Hospital at QMC is mainly situated in East Block on D and E floors:
* Five in‑patient wards – 110 beds
* The Paediatric Critical Care Unit – 14 beds (flexible between intensive care and high dependency)
* An Oncology Day Case Unit with anaesthetic facilities
* A Teenage Cancer ward
* A Short Stay unit for observation of the acutely ill child
* A large Hospital school
* The Academic Division of Child Health (University of Nottingham School of Human Development)
* Neonatal Intensive Care Unit – 32 cots (B floor)
* Children’s outpatient department with 30 000 attendances per year (B floor)
* A separate children’s A & E department sees over 40 000 children per year (A floor)
Nottingham is the Lead Centre for PCCU in the North East Midlands and since April 2012 has become the East Midlands Major Trauma Centre. The Paediatric Critical Care area at QMC admitted 498 patients in 2024 (420 emergencies). We deliver around 5 000 bed days per year, of which 2 584 invasively ventilated (ETT and tracheostomy) and 2 415 NIV bed days. Our PIM3 adjusted SMR for 2021‑2023 was ~0.80.
Specialist Services Supported
* Supra‑regional nephrology and renal replacement treatment, including kidney transplants
* Supra‑regional spinal surgery
* Regional neurosurgery
* Regional oncology
* The busiest Major Trauma Centre in the UK
* Regional neurology
* Regional paediatric ENT
* Regional general paediatric surgery
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