Job summary
- Main area
- Intensive Care Medicine
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Trainee ST6 – ST8
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week (on-call, nights and weekends)
- Job ref
- 193-MS1497UCG
- Employer
- Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Berkshire Hospital
- Town
- Reading
- Salary
- £63,152 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/05/2024 08:00
Employer heading
Medical Specialty Trainee in Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine (PICM)
NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Trainee ST6 – ST8
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 7 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.
Main duties of the job
This post will provide experience in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia for trainees with a background in paediatrics.
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.
Working for our organisation
Our ICU has just been rated outstanding for patient care and the Trust overall has a Good rating from the CQC. The unit currently admits nearly 1000 level 2 and level 3 patients per year into 21 beds.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Intensive Care Medicine
The case mix is predominantly medical with trauma and surgical patients make up about 20%. Around 95% of our admissions are emergencies with the remainder being high-risk surgical cases including, colo-rectal, robotic urological procedures and cervical spinal surgery cases. There are about 80 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 five consultants. We also get excellent support from our microbiology department with daily ward rounds on the ICU.
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 educational 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.
Research
We have a strong urgent care research team running clinical trials across the ICU, ED and AMU. Dr Walden and Dr Keating run the Urgent Care research team of five research nurses and a research assistant
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 Jonathan Hughes
- Job title
- Consultant in Critical Care Medicine
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Dr Mike Raffles
Consultant in Critical Care Medicine
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