Consultant in Paediatric Critical Care and COMET transport

Consultant in Paediatric Critical Care and COMET transport

The closing date is 07 April 2026

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We are seeking a 10 PA Consultant Paediatric Intensivist for Nottingham Children's Hospital at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and CoMET, the East Midlands Paediatric Transport Service. CoMET is based at Castle Donington in a purpose facility (DE74 2NP). This is an excellent opportunity to join a dynamic team of consultant paediatric intensivists in this RCPCH approved PICM grid training centre. The team of paediatric intensive care consultants work very closely together, providing a very supportive group and is therefore an ideal environment for new consultant appointments. The wide clinical exposure across a variety of tertiary and quaternary children's specialties is intellectually and practically stimulating and also very rewarding.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will have responsibility both for Paediatric Critical Care Unit work and for Transport service work (approximately 25% of DCC). Please see the Job Description for further details.

About us

Working for our organisation

Nottingham Children's Hospital at QMC is mainly situated in East Block on D and E floors:

• The Paediatric Critical Care Unit - 14 Beds (flexible between intensive care and high dependency)
• An Oncology Day Case Unit with anaesthetic facilities
• A Teenage Cancer ward
• A Short Stay unit for observation of the acutely ill child
• A large Hospital school
• The Academic Division of Child Health (University of Nottingham School of Human Development)

Neonatal Intensive Care Unit - 32 cots (B floor) Children's outpatient department with attendances per year (B floor)

• A separate children's A and E department sees over 40,000 children per year (A floor)

Nottingham is the Lead Centre for PCCU in North East Midlands and since April 2012 has become East Midlands Major Trauma Centre.

Job responsibilities

The Paediatric Critical Care area at QMC admitted 498 patients in 2024 (420 emergencies). We deliver around 5000 (4999 in 2024) bed days per year, of which 2584 invasively ventilated (ETT and tracheostomy) and 2415 NIV bed days. Our PIM3 adjusted SMR FOR was 0.80.

We support a variety of specialist services including:

• Supra-regional nephrology and renal replacement treatment, including kidney transplants
• Supra-regional spinal surgery
• Regional oncology
• The busiest Major Trauma Centre in the UK
• Regional paediatric ENT
• Regional general paediatric surgery

Person Specification Professional Registration

• oFull GMC registration
• oEligible to be included on the Specialist Register
• oCCT expected within 6 months of interview date
• MRCP/MRCPCH/FRCA/FRCS or equivalent.
• Higher Professional degree

Clinical Skills/experiance

• Is able to demonstrate having achieved the competencies equivalent to the Highest Specialist Paediatric Training
• Substantial experience in the transfer of critically ill children
• Evidenced technical skills as described in the job description
• APLS provider
• Completion of RCPCH Progress PICM Curriculum as part training in an RCPCH PICM ISAC approved centre/rotation PICM plus six months (minimum) of anaesthetics (standalone) OR training assessed to be equivalent by the GMC OR Existing practicing substantive consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care
• Specific training in communication skills
• Specific training in patient safety and/or human factors
• APLS instructor

Managment Skills

• Able to develop, present and operationalise coherent ideas for service development/delivery
• Higher management degree or qualification or training
• Experience of change management

Personal Skills/Qualities

• Able to use the Trust's IT support systems

Teaching, audit and research

• Evidence of participation in Clinical Audit
• Able to teach and support junior staff effectively
• Original Research
• Publications
• Higher teaching degree or qualification or training

Pratical Requirments

• Evidence of Level 3 Safeguarding Children

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Address

Nottingham University Hospitals and COMET based at Castle Donnington