Job summary
- Main area
- Critical Care
- Grade
- NHS Medical and Dental: Specialty Trainee
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Planned split between ICU and A+E)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week (Nights weekends)
- Job ref
- 193-MS1199UCG
- Employer
- Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Berkshire NHS Trust
- Town
- Reading
- Salary
- £49,909 - £70,425 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/05/2025 08:00
Employer heading
Medical Specialty Trainee in Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine (PICM)
NHS Medical and Dental: Specialty Trainee
Royal Berkshire Hospital are pleased to announce that following our CQC inspection we have been rated ‘Good’ with inspectors reporting that we have made significant improvements. The Trust’s overall rating has also improved to ‘good’. This is a great opportunity to join our clinical or non-clinical teams to create a positive and motivating environment within our trust. Come and join our team in this exciting time of change as we pride ourselves, our staff and our services on excellence.
At the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust we put our patients at the heart of every element of health and care that we provide. The Trust works together as a community to deliver its vision which is “Working together to provide outstanding care for our community.”
We are Compassionate in our thoughts, words and actions
We are Aspirational and have a true desire to be dynamic and to innovate
We are Resourceful and responsible in the way we work and live
We are Excellent in our development, fairness and sharing best practice
Amazing things happen at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust; delivered by amazing people so why don’t you come and join us. We offer a range of learning and development for all employees may you be clinical or non-clinical.
Job overview
This 12-month post offers candidates the opportunity to gain experience in Intensive Care medicine and Anaesthesia in a busy district general hospital. This post has been available at the RBH for the last 8 years and is designed for PICU trainees to enable the candidate to achieve a CCT/CSER in PICU grid training. This job would be ideally suited to individuals who are PICU trainees and have at least 6 months experience working in a PICU.
This post will provide experience in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia for trainees with a background in Paediatrics.
Main duties of the job
Successful applicants would receive the same training opportunities as doctors in training and dedicated time for study leave. Educational supervision would be provided and support with undertaking quality improvement projects/audits to support specialist training applications.
The clinical training programme is outcome-based and follows the curriculum developed by the Faculty of Intensive care medicine (FICM). This is described in detail on the FICM’s documents on outcome-based training and assessment (http://www.ficm.ac.uk).
Working for our organisation
Our ICU has just been rated ‘Outstanding’ for patient care by the CQC and the Trust overall has a ‘Good’ rating. The unit currently admits nearly 1000 level 2 and level 3 patients per year into 19 beds. The case mix is predominantly medical with trauma and surgical patients making up about 20%. Around 90% of our admissions are emergencies with the remainder being high risk surgical cases including, colo-rectal & urological procedures. There are about 60 paediatric admissions and stabilisations a year the vast majority of which are retrieved via the Southampton and Oxford Retrieval Team (SORT). The Trust is a tertiary referral cancer centre and includes all specialties except neurosurgery, transplant, vascular and cardiothoracic surgery. The trust has a primary coronary angioplasty service with the fastest door to needle times in the country as well as the fastest door to needle times for stroke thrombolysis. There is an excellent interventional radiology department staffed by six consultants. We also get excellent support from our microbiology department with daily ward rounds on the ICU.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Anaesthesia section
The successful candidate would join an enthusiastic and friendly anaesthetic department for six months of their placement. They will develop competence in assessing and managing a wide range of elective and emergency theatre cases under appropriate supervision. Surgical specialities delivered at RBH include orthopaedics, general surgery, urology (including robotic cases), ENT, dental, gynaecology and bariatrics. The trainee will have a named clinical supervisor to ensure they get the most out of their time with us. The trainee will be encouraged and supported to complete quality improvement projects and will be supported to attend the teaching on offer e.g. monthly simulation and weekly teaching sessions.
Where possible the successful candidate will attend the ‘RIACT’ and ‘BASICS’-equivalent courses, which supplements the knowledge and skills required for the Initial Certificate of Competence.
Research
We have a strong urgent care research team running clinical trials across the ICU, ED and AMU. Professor Frise and Professor Keating run the Urgent Care research team of five research nurses and a research assistant. We work closely with our colleagues in the Research and Development department as well as the local Clinical Research Network. We have been the successful recipients of three College of Emergency Medicine research grants as well as co-applicants for successful Intensive Care Foundation grant. The successful candidates will be expected to take an active role in these areas and will be supported to undertake Good Clinical Practice (GCP) Training.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MB ChB, MBBS or equivalent MRCPCH or equivalent GMC registration
Desirable criteria
- Educational diploma or equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
- Minimum of 1 years’ experience in Paediatric Intensive Care medicine Experience of working in a Paediatric retrieval team
Desirable criteria
- Provider status in one of the following: ALS, ATLS, or APLS
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Joshua Moorhouse
- Job title
- ICM / Anaesthetics Consultant
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Dr M Raffles
Paediatric lead and College tutor
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