Consultant - Paediatric Critical Care (CON 993)

Required to fill this replacement post within the Paediatric Intensive Care Department at the Leeds General Infirmary/St Jamess University Hospital.

The Paediatric Critical Care Unit at the Leeds General Infirmary is the regional lead centre. The unit admits approximately 650 Level 3 PICU patients and 250 Level 2 patients a year, of which approximately, 150 are retrieved from our referring district general hospitals by Embrace, the regional paediatric and neonatal retrieval service. The Paediatric Critical Care Service supports a wide range of services including cardiac, neurosurgery and liver transplant. Cardiac surgery/ Cardiology account for over 350 cases per year. The LGI is a major neurology / neurosurgical centre with trauma, spinal, oncology and craniofacial and spinal surgical interests and is also the trauma and paediatric surgical centre for the city. Paediatric Critical Care also supports the onsite tertiary specialities including haematology, oncology, bone marrow transplant and nephrology. We are also one of the 3 liver transplant centres in the country.

The service currently incorporates 26 beds in a refurbished unit in the Clarendon Wing which is adjacent to the cardiac and neurosurgery theatres and the new hybrid lab at the heart of the Leeds Childrens Hospital. There is a 6 bedded cardiac Level 2 facility located on the cardiology ward and there are two long term ventilation beds on the respiratory ward.