Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to gain advanced experience of working in Paediatric Intensive Care and develop the skills necessary to pursue a career in Paediatric intensive care or in an allied field. It is also suitable for candidates who are looking to complete training via CESR in PICM or completing High Dependency Care SPIN.

The Senior Fellow post will be spent on the Regional Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at Alder Hey Hospital with an option to rotate to the Northwest & North Wales Paediatric Transport Service, NWTS (depending on candidate preference and available vacancies).

Successful candidate will provide clinical cover on a hybrid rota with the ACPs. Clinical duties will include shift work pattern on a unique rota with some academic days to pursue and participate in ongoing projects / audits that are happening on the unit. Trainees will also be allocated theatre days where they can attend theatre and practice / hone anaesthetic procedures. Teaching will be provided on a local and regional level.

The 24 bed Paediatric Intensive Care Unit is a mixed general and cardiac ward with 1100 admissions per year, 40% of which are post op cardiac patients. We are a designated ECMO and Major Trauma Centre, and Alder Hey has a co-located and separately staffed 15 bed High Dependency Unit.

Main duties of the job

This post offers a unique opportunity to work in an internationally recognised children’s hospital and designated Major Trauma and HCID Centre. Successful candidates will gain broad experience in paediatric intensive care including cardiac and respiratory ECMO, and paediatric transport medicine, and is relevant to all acute specialties.

The posts are for 6-24 months (maximum) and suitable for candidates with demonstrable experience in general paediatrics and neonatal intensive care. Candidates should also have at least 6 months paediatric intensive care experience. Candidates with extensive experience in anaesthetics or emergency medicine are invited to apply as well.

Working for our organisation

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust is one of Europe’s biggest and busiest children’s hospitals providing care for over 200,000 children and young people each year. It is one of only four stand-alone Paediatric trusts in the UK and is staffed by 2,800 employees. In 2017 the hospital has moved into the state-of-the-art children's hospital - Alder Hey in the Park. As the Paediatric Cardiac Surgical Centre for the North West, both departments also play a key role in the wider Paediatric Congenital Cardiac Network for the North West, North Wales, and Isle of Man.

Alder Hey offers 20 specialist services including being the designated national center for Craniofacial Surgery and a Centre of Excellence for Paediatric Oncology, Cardiac Surgery, Cardiology, Neurology and Orthopaedics. It is a teaching hospital and trains 550 medical and 400 nursing students each year.  A child and adolescent mental health service is also provided with an in-patient unit based at the Trust.  Recent expansion has seen the provision of additional theatres (there are 13 operating Theatres in total) and the opening of a new Neuro-sciences development.

Alder Hey serves not only the children of Liverpool but is the tertiary referral centre for children from Merseyside, Cheshire, parts of Lancashire, Shropshire and North Wales for many sub-specialties of Paediatrics.  The Trust provides a range of community services including school nursing, home careers and a child development centre.