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.
Other
- 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.
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care, providing a wide range of both hospital and community-based services, including specialist mental health services for children and young people, to over 275,000 children and young people each year. In addition to the hospital site located in the West Derby area of Liverpool, Alder Hey has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Alder Park building in the nearby borough of Sefton.
Alder Hey offers a number of specialist services. We are one of the two accredited major trauma units for children in the North West and are also nationally commissioned as one of four epilepsy surgical centres, a service we provide in partnership with Manchester Children’s Hospital. As the regional cardiac surgical centre we continue to work with the cardiac network across the region in order to provide seamless pathways of care for children with congenital heart problems. Alder Hey hosts a regional Tier 4 inpatient unit for children under the age of 13 who require highly specialised mental health support.
For further information in regards to the role please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached
