Senior Clinical Fellow in Paediatric Critical Care and Palliative Care Medicine
(ST5 level and above Equivalent)
Post of Senior Clinical Fellow in Paediatric Critical Care Retrieval Medicine and Palliative Care Medicine
(Equivalent to ST5 level and above)
Applications are invited to apply for the above post as Clinical Fellows in Paediatric Critical Care (PCC) at the Children’s Hospital Oxford and Palliative Care Medicine with Helen & Douglas House.
Candidates are invited to contact Dr Helen Turnham at Oxford University Hospital (OUH) PCC.
Applicants must be registered with the General Medical Council and be in their ST5-ST8 year of training in Adult intensive care Medicine / Anaesthetics / Paediatrics / Emergency Medicine
We are pleased to offer a 12-month fellowship scheme at Oxford University Hospitals’ Paediatric Critical Care and Helen & Douglas House that will include work across both services. This fellowship is aimed at clinicians with considerable experience in critical care medicine who are interested in developing their palliative care medicine expertise.
The successful applicant will spend most of their “in hours” work with the palliative care team supporting activity across OUH PCC and Helen and Douglas House. The “out of hours” commitment will be spent as a senior Paediatric Critical Care fellow with a primary responsibility in retrieval medicine.
The successful applicant will work under the supervision of a team of consultants in the Paediatric Critical Care Medicine and Palliative Care Medicine. It is also expected that a successful applicant will take part in an agreed project that strengthens the link between OUH PCC and Helen & Douglas House. This can include outreach education, quality improvement, or guideline development.
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Helen & Douglas House
The specialist paediatric palliative care team for the region (Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire) are based at Helen House Children’s Hospice. The medical team comprises three part-time consultants and three part-time associate specialists, providing 24/7 specialist support for children in their preferred place. We work closely within a multi-disciplinary team to offer holistic care.
The hospice has a five-bedded inpatient unit for children and their families and a bereavement suite. Support is also offered where patients are hospital inpatients (intensive care, neonates, children’s wards) or in their own homes.
The hospice MDT includes psychology and counselling, physiotherapy, and clinical nurse specialists. Helen & Douglas House is registered for SPIN training in paediatric palliative care with the RCPCH and GMC.
Paediatric Critical Care, Oxford University Hospital
The Paediatric Critical Care (PCC) unit provides intensive and high dependency care to the local population and children of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire as well as further afield. It comprises an eight-bedded Intensive Care Area and an adjacent nine-bedded High Dependency ward. The OUH is a major trauma centre and supports a number of medical and surgical specialities, including Infectious Diseases, Respiratory medicine, Cardiology, Neurology, Endocrinology and Gastroenterology, Paediatric surgery, Neurosurgery, craniofacial surgery and Orthopaedic surgery.
The department is run by the Consultant of the week, one of eleven Paediatric Critical Care consultants with either a Paediatric or Anaesthetic background. The Consultant is a strong presence on the unit and provides a continuous high level of training and supervision. The department is staffed with 25 Doctors and ACCPs with a background in Paediatrics / Anaesthetics / adult Intensive Care Medicine / Emergency Medicine.
Paediatric Intensive Care retrievals from the Oxford region are managed on a 24-hour basis jointly with Southampton General Hospital under the umbrella of the Southampton Oxford Retrieval Team (SORT). SORT provides support to over 15 District General Hospitals in the combined South Central Region. Successful applicants will work both on the shop floor and as part of the retrieval service.
The PCC is nationally recognised for grid & SPIN training in paediatric critical care medicine with the RCPCH and GMC.
