Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatrics
- Grade
- Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent: Substantive
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week (40 Hours Per week)
- Job ref
- 213-MED-DH-7235927
- Employer
- King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- KCH
- Town
- Denmark Hill
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 Per Annum Excluding London Zone Allowance.
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/06/2025 08:00
Employer heading
Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care
Consultant
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1.8 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.
We encourage all our staff to have a healthy work/life balance. In doing so, you can apply for flexible working from the beginning of your employment. We offer a range of options which are designed to suit different circumstances and priorities in line with service requirements.
Job overview
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Site: King’s College Hospital (Denmark Hill)
Consultant in Paediatric Critical Care
Full-time 10 PAs
Permanent
Applications are invited for this 10PA full time post in Paediatric Critical Care based at the Department of Child Health at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. King’s College Hospital is a major London teaching hospital which has tertiary paediatric specialist services, including paediatric hepatology and neurosurgery. It also provides general paediatric services for a large multi-ethnic innercity population. King’s College Hospital is part of London’s most comprehensive Academic Health Sciences Centre (King’s Health Partners), along with King’s College London and Guys and St Thomas’ (GSTT) and the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts.
Main duties of the job
This is a replacement consultant post. The remit of the postholder will be to work within the multi–disciplinary team providing and further developing care in paediatric critical care at Denmark Hill, as part of the from Child Health care group. In addition, the individual will be required to play an active role in the general workload of the Care Group while having a significant commitment to teaching and training of junior staff.
Interested applicants are invited to discuss the post with Professor Akash Deep (Consultant Paediatric Intensivist and Head of PICU) and arrange an informal visit to the Unit by E-mailing [email protected]
Working for our organisation
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts – and we are delighted you are considering a career with us.
Our teams provide services out of five hospitals across South East London and Kent, namely King’s College Hospital, the Princess Royal University Hospital, Orpington Hospital, Queen Mary’s Hospital Sidcup, and Beckenham Beacon.
We employ nearly 14,000 staff, who together treat over 1.5 million patients every year.
We provide a full range of local and specialist services, and our teams are nationally and internationally recongised for our work in liver disease and transplantation, neurosciences, cardiac, haemato-oncology, fetal medicine, stroke, major trauma, and emergency medicine.
Our Strong Roots, Global Reach strategy, published in 2021, sets out our BOLD vision, and commitment towards:
- Brilliant People
- Outstanding care
- Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education
- Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do.
At King’s, we are proud to serve a diverse range of communities, and our staff reflect the diversity of the communities we serve, with many people also travelling from all the world to start and develop their careers with us.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Together with other colleagues, to provide a high quality care service to patients. This includes all aspects of treatment and relevant management duties for the proper functioning of the Care Group.
2. Shared responsibility with other colleagues for providing 24 hours, 7 days a week cover for the Unit on a rota basis. Responsible also for covering colleagues’ periods of annual leave and short-term sickness as detailed in your contract.
3. Provide clinical supervision of junior medical/dental practitioners as a shared responsibility with other consultant colleagues.
4. Responsible for carrying out teaching, examination and accreditation duties as required and contributing to CPD and clinical governance initiatives.
5. Responsible for outpatient clinic commitments in peripheral hospitals as agreed with the Care Group’s management team where part of the service structure.
6. Contribute to the Care Group’s research interests in accordance with the Trust’s R&D framework.
7. Contribute to the audit programmes, Morbidity and Mortality, Clinical Governance programmes and Learning from Deaths.
8. Take an active role in the formulation, implementation and monitoring of the Care Group’s Business Plan. This may include assisting with discussions regarding service plans and developments with internal and external agencies.
9. Conduct all activities within the contracted level of service and operating plan for service(s).
10. Exercise professional leadership for all staff working in the specialty. This will include fostering and developing projects focused towards these ends and ensuring that the momentum of post-qualification professional education and other appropriate training is maintained.
11. Work in conjunction with clinical and other professional colleagues to ensure that the productivity of staff within the specialty is maintained and their job satisfaction is enhanced. This may include involvement in the appraisal process for peers and/or junior colleagues.
12. Undertake Care Group management duties as agreed with the Care Group/Departmental Manager/Clinical Director.
13. Be aware of, and comply with, all Trust infection prevention and control policies, to include hand hygiene, personal hygiene, environmental and food hygiene.
14. Prepare for and undertake the protective interventions that you are responsible for in a manner that is consistent with evidence-based practice and maintaining patient safety.
15. King’s is committed to providing Consultant led 7-day services and in the event of future developments the post holder would be expected to contribute equally with other Consultant colleagues.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MBBS or equivalent
- Full MRCP, MRCPCH or equivalent
- APLS/EPLS
Desirable criteria
- Other higher degree or diploma (e.g., MD or PhD)
Registration
Essential criteria
- Full Registration with GMC
- Name on GMC Specialist Register on date of taking up appointment
- Entered on the Specialist Register for Paediatric Intensive Care
- On the day of interview , applicants must be within 6 months of CCT or be in final stages of portfolio application or be fully registered on the GMC Paediatric Specialist Register. Any applications not meeting these criteria will not be considered.
- Evidenced Level 3 safeguarding training
Training and Experience
Essential criteria
- Wide experience in all aspects of paediatric intensive care medicine (minimum two years) in a unit approved for training by the RCPCHP GRID training programme. culminating in award of Certificate of Completion of Training by GMC, or award of Certificate of Eligibility for Specialty Registration (CESR) by GMC.
- Minimum of 6 months of anaesthetic training
Desirable criteria
- Interest and experience in paediatric echocardiography and/or flexible bronchoscopy
Administration
Essential criteria
- Experience in day-to-day organisation of paediatric services in a busy Teaching Hospital
- Familiarity with information technology and general computer skills
- Familiar with current structure of UK National Health Service and conversant with recent initiatives and changes
Management and Leadership
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate leadership capability within multi-disciplinary teams
Desirable criteria
- Management course and/or qualification
Audit and Quality Improvement
Essential criteria
- Thorough understanding of principles of medical audit. Must have undertaken and completed audit projects
- An understanding of clinical governance, patient safety and corporate risk
- Evidence of contribution to effective clinical audit and clinical risk management
- Must be able to demonstrate ability to lead change
Desirable criteria
- Audit Publications
- Experience in clinical guideline development
Research and Publications
Essential criteria
- Experience of clinical research.
Desirable criteria
- Publication of relevant review articles or case reports.
Teaching
Essential criteria
- Experience of undergraduate and post-graduate teaching and exam preparation
Desirable criteria
- Teaching skills course/qualification
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
- Professor Akash Deep
- Job title
- Consultant Paediatric Intensivist and Head of PICU
- Email address
- [email protected]
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