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Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS FT

Locum Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care (10 PAs)

Start Date: ASAP

Applications are invited for the post of Locum Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care based at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust. This is a 6-Month, Fixed-Term position.

Main duties of the job

As a member of the Paediatric Intensive Care Team the applicant will be expected to deliver Paediatric Intensive care clinical cover for the PICU. The on-call commitment for this joint post will be providing on call commitment on the PICU proportionate to the DCC allocated. There is internal cover for consultant leave within PICU.

During periods where the consultant is not clinically on service there will be time to undertake the administrative duties of the post, such as clinical summaries, audit, teaching and appraisal.  The job plan also includes attendance at regular unit clinical meetings including the multidisciplinary case conferences, the clinical governance meeting, weekly consultant meeting, weekly morbidity and mortality meeting and the weekly joint PICU multidisciplinary meeting. Office space and secretarial support will be available for the consultant to enable them to carry out the administrative duties of the post.

The attached job plan provides an idea of the work programme of the post. It is recognised that there will need to be some flexibility between consultants in how these duties are discharged.

Prior to taking up a post there will be negotiated allocation of specific roles within the unit to fall within the allotted 1 SPA time on Intensive Care.

Additional duties may be required at short notice to cover colleagues’ short-term sick leave.

Working for our organisation

Our commitment to you

GOSH is committed to recruiting the best person for the job, based solely on their ability and individual merit as measured against the criteria for the role; through a process that is fair, open, consistent and free from bias and discrimination.

We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture where all staff are valued, respected and acknowledged. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, disability status or length of time spent unemployed.

We particularly welcome applications from BAME communities, people with disabilities and/or long-term health conditions and LGBT+ community members.

We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that all applicants and employees are treated fairly and consistently. We are proud to be accredited as a Disability Confident Employer, a member of Business Disability Forum and a Stonewall Diversity Champion.

We have active and Executive supported BAME, LGBT+ and Allies, Disability and Long-Term Health Conditions and Women’s staff networks. Staff networks are employee-led groups formed around interests, issues and a common bond or background. Staff network members create a positive and inclusive work environment at GOSH by actively contributing to the Trust’s mission, values and efforts specific to inclusion. All of our staff networks are open to any employee.