Locum Consultant in Paediatric Respiratory

The postholder's duties will be primarily at Oxford Children's Hospital, but it is a condition of the appointment that the postholder will be willing to work in any of the Trust's locations such as the Horton Hospital in Banbury. Clinical The postholder will provide, within a multi-disciplinary team including 3 consultant colleagues, a comprehensive paediatric resipiratory service for children in the Thames Valley and Northamptonshire (approximate population 2 million). The services offered include:

• regional cystic fibrosis centre
• respiratory sleep service
• non-invasive respiratory support service (CPAP and BiPAP)
• long term ventilation via tracheostomy
• care of children with tracheostomies
• management of empyema and other respiratory infections
• management of asthma
• management of chronic lung disease
• investigation of respiratory problems
• respiratory support to the ITU, cleft service, craniofacial service, neuromuscular service, ENT service, oncology service, cardiology service.
Outreach cystic fibrosis clinics are provided 3-monthly at 5 network clinics. There are 3 CF Transition clinics per year run jointly with the Adult CF Teams in Oxford and Frimley Park Hospital. There are biannual PCD clinics run jointly with the Southampton Quaternary PCD service. The postholder will undertake clinic work and inpatient work, as well as taking an equal share in a 1 in 3 on call service for paediatric respiratory medicine.


• Full GMC with licence to practice
• MBBCh or equivalent
• MRCPCH or equivalent.
• CCT in paediatrics and paediatric respiratory medicine or equivalent OR CESR OR within 6 months of achieving CCT at the time of interview;
• Current APLS certification
• Level 3 safeguarding training for children
Desirable criteria
• Higher Medical Degree e.g. PhD or MD or evidence of working towards a higher academic degree, Comprehensive training in Paediatrics and all aspects of paediatric respiratory medicine, including ability to carry out bronchoscopy and experience of managing children on long-term ventilation.
• Ability to make decisions at consultant level and to manage complex clinical problems
Desirable criteria
• Experience in interpreting respiratory polygraphy, Sufficient leadership, organisational, communication, professional and personal skills to undertake effectively the role of a consultant in a large teaching hospital.
• Effective administrative and time management skills.
• Ability to work within and lead a multi-disciplinary team.
• Good spoken and written English. Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience of formal and informal contributions to teaching and training.
• Experience of clinical risk management and clinical audit activities
• Participation in clinical research
Desirable criteria
• Management qualification.
• Education qualification
• Presentations at national and international meetings and publication of research in peer-reviewed journals. Research grants, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
  The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton Hospital in Banbury. Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel. Many of our recruitment programmes use values-based interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significance difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families., Applications are invited for the above post in the Department of Paediatrics at the Oxford Children's Hospital, Level 2, Oxford OX3 9DU. This is a 12-month locum post for maternity cover. The postholder will join as one of 3 specialist paediatric respiratory consultants working within a multidisciplinary team that also includes 5 specialist nurses, 2 physiotherapists, 2 dieticians, a psychologist, a respiratory physiologist and other support staff. We are a dynamic and committed team who together provide a comprehensive paediatric respiratory service for Oxfordshire, the Thames Valley and Northamptonshire. The majority of the postholder's time will be spent at the Children's Hospital in Oxford. One consultant also delivers a regular clinic at the Horton Hospital in Banbury. There will be a focus for the post holder on work related to the paediatric respiratory sleep service., Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. For more information on OUH please view OUH At a Glance by OUHospitals - Issuu Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.