Pcc & Palliative Care Senior Clinical Fellow - Oxford, United Kingdom - Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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We are pleased to offer a 12 months 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 clinician with considerable experience in critical care medicine who have an interest in palliative care medicine which they would like to develop further.


The successful applicant will spend most of their "in hours" work supporting palliative care provision across OUH PCC and Helen & Douglas House.

The "out of hours" commitment will be spent as a senior Paediatric Critical Care fellow with a primary responsibility to 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 strengthening the link between OUH PCC and Helen & Douglas House.

This can include outreach education, quality improvement or guideline development.

On Call work


Retrieval fellow shifts are 13 hours long - Day shifts are 8am until 9pm and night shifts are 8pm until 9am.

The post holder will undertake their on call commitments either as night shifts during the week or as either day or night shifts during weekends

Clinical Fellow (ST5-ST8) posts in Paediatric Intensive Care and Paediatric Retrieval Medicine

Posts commencing from August / Sept 2024

Fixed Term posts lasting 12 months

We are pleased to offer a 12 months 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 clinician with considerable experience in critical care medicine who have an interest in palliative care medicine which they would like to develop further.


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 to 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 strengthening the link between OUH PCC and Helen & Douglas House.

This can include outreach education, quality improvement or guideline development.

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.


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.


Summary of the Role's Main Purpose:

To work in Paediatric Critical Care at OUH to support and improve the provision of palliative care planning and symptom management to the benefit of our patients.

To participate in PICU out-of-hours and retrieval service rotas


To work alongside paediatric colleagues at Helen and Douglas House (HDH), OUH Trust and regional hospitals, children's community services and other partner children's hospice services as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide the highest possible standard of care, in the setting most appropriate to their needs.


To develop skills in providing Paediatric Palliative Care to children and families across the region with consultant support and mentorship.

To further enhance the links and shared working practices between Paediatric Intensive Care Unit and Paediatric Palliative Care through caring for patients across both settings, and contributing to education/training needs analysis and delivery and processes/patient & family journey through settings (CCCG)

To participate in the Clinical Ethics Advisory Group, at a level appropriate to the applicant, initially as an observer


Key working relationships:


Medical and outreach nursing children's palliative care team serving the palliative care needs of children across Berkshire, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire (BOB) based at Helen and Douglas House Hospice (HDH) - team member.

Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) based at
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