The post is an appointment for 12 months as a LAS in Paediatric Emergency Medicine at Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.
There are in the region of over 70,000 new attendances at Alder Hey ED annually, of which about 15% are admitted. The medical, surgical and orthopedics specialties see referred patients within the department who have been sent to them by the general practitioners for possible admission as well as patients referred by ED for admission.
There is a PEM Consultant presence in the clinical areas of the ED from 0800 to 0000 seven days a week.
Facilities
The clinical area is spacious and well equipped. It consists of:
- Two resuscitation rooms and 2 high dependency rooms.
- One multi-sensory room.
- One Section 136 ‘safe’ room.
- 18 acute cubicles for reviewing and treating patients.
- A minor operations room.
- An Emergency Decisions Unit with 12 beds to allow observation and short-term treatment of patients.
- An integrated decontamination unit.
- The Paediatric Urgent Treatment Centre
Clinical
- The resuscitation, examination, investigation, diagnosis and treatment of patients presenting to the Emergency Department
- To work as part of a multidisciplinary Team
- There will be senior supervision available for training grade doctors in the Department i.e Consultant presence 16 hours per day. Night shift support is provided by the non resident ED consultant, and on site medical, surgical, ICU and anaesthetic paediatric ST4+ doctors.
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 UK and is staffed by 2,800 employees. Alder Hey offers 20 specialist services including being the designated national centre 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 carers and a child development centre. The hospital has over 300 beds, including day beds for surgery, a medical day care unit and Emergency Decision Unit. A purpose built Education Centre is situated on the hospital site and is available for all postgraduate educational activity.
- Liaison with senior colleagues to ensure the provision of effective ED clinical services.
- Responsibility in respect of the reasonable and effective use of hospital and district resources in liaison with ED budget holder.
- Liaison through the directorate with other staff of the hospital and the health authority.
- Participation in the Major Incident Procedure
- Assistance and liaison with the ambulance service
- Teaching and training of medical students, junior staff (medical and nursing) within the department and health professionals on placements in the department to gain paediatric experience.
- Contribution to Clinical Governance activities in the Department.
- Participation in improvement initiatives in the Department eg implementation of National Guidance.
