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Job overview

We are delighted to offer an opportunity for an enthusiastic and well-motivated individual to join our team as a Locum Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care at the Great North Children’s Hospital (GNCH), based at the Royal Victoria infirmary site in Newcastle upon Tyne. The successful applicant will join a team of clinicians who work in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit based at the Great North Children’s Hospital and/or the North East and Cumbria Transport And Retrieval service (NECTAR).

GNCH Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) is the lead centre for paediatric critical care for the Northern Region. We admit children referred for intensive care from an area extending from the West Coast of Cumbria, north through Northumberland to the Scottish Borders, and extending southwards to North Yorkshire. There are approximately 3500 intensive care bed days per year. Day to day care of children in the PICU is managed and led by the team of PICU consultants in consultation with subspecialties as appropriate. Paediatric cardiothoracic services are currently based at the Freeman Hospital with a separate PICU and ECMO beds based there with a separate clinical team. Co-location on the RVI site will be made a priority, enabling best possible care for children.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Main duties of the job

This purpose of this joint consultant post is twofold. 

Working in a team of paediatric intensivists, the successful candidate will play an important role in the day-to-day running and wider development of a state-of-the-art PICU that operates as the paediatric critical care hub for the North East and North Cumbria region.  The Great North Children’s Hospital also hosts a wide range of tertiary sub-specialities and a supra-regional immunodeficiency bone marrow transplant service that are all regular users of the PICU. Clinical duties will include consultant of the week and on call responsibilities.

In addition, the successful candidate will contribute to the day to the day running of the North East and Cumbria Transport and Retrieval paediatric service.  The role will include both in hours and out of hours support for acute patient transport. This involves telephone triage and clinical support for referral for transport, liaison between the referring hospital and the acute services at GNCH as well as going out on retrieval.

There is the opportunity for the successful candidate to negotiate the time commitment to either of the services.

For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and organisation, please contact: 
Dr Rachel Agbeko on 0191 282 5333 or [email protected], or Dr Raja Abouelella on 01912829420 or [email protected].

Working for our organisation

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve,and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.