Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust · Consultant · viaNHS Jobs
£105504.00 to £139882.00
- Closing date
- 11 Nov 2026
- Posted
- Today
- Specialism
- Consultant
- Sector
- Healthcare
- Reference
- nhs-5687047
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Job summary
Applications are invited for two substantive consultant posts in the Paediatric Intensive Care unit at the Evelina London Children's Hospital. Candidates are welcome to apply from both paediatric or anaesthetic based training background. Proposed start date is February/ March 2027.
Main duties of the job
The Evelina PICU comprises 35 beds over 2 floors depending on activity and patient case load. The post-holder will be one of a team of 26 paediatric intensivists providing care for the paediatric critical care unit and integrated retrieval service, STRS at the Evelina.
The successful applicant will provide a specialist service to children requiring paediatric critical care in the Trust. They will also provide consultant-led triage and management of emergency inter-hospital referrals and transfers with South Thames Retrieval Service.
For those applicants from an anaesthetic background, a fixed day in anaesthesia with anaesthetic on call can be negotiated.
The post-holder will be part of the paediatric intensive care consultant on call rota, with 1:6 on call for the management of the intensive care and supervision of the South Thames Retrieval Service. Both services are managed from within the same consultant team. Additional on call commitment may be necessary and attract additional PAs.
About us
The Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at Guys and St Thomas' Foundation Trust is the regional lead PICU, serving the health needs of children in the South East of England, including South, West and some areas of North London. It forms an integral part of a large tertiary children's hospital and regional children's operational delivery network, including tertiary specialist services in neonatology, cardiology/cardiac surgery, neurology, nephrology, metabolic medicine, general paediatrics, paediatric surgery and clinical genetics, among others. Cardiology and cardiac surgery forms a large part of the PICU case load with elective admissions from all sub specialties, emergencies from within the children's hospital and referred admissions from the South Thames catchment area.
Details
Date posted
27 October 2026
Pay scheme
Hospital medical and dental staff
Grade
Consultant
Salary
£105,504 to £139,882 a year per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
196-CON1181
Job locations
Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
London
SE1 7EH
United Kingdom
Job description
Job responsibilities
The successful applicant will be expected to provide significant cover for the South Thames Retrieval Service including educational support of the service and the region. The South Thames Retrieval Service is integrated and staffed from the PICU. Day to day management of the service is one of the main responsibilities of the on-call consultant team with support from other PICU colleagues. An active PICU and retrieval teaching programme to PICU retrieval nurses, nurse practitioners, doctors and the regions nurses and doctors is ongoing and is supported and delivered by the consultant team. This includes education delivered for a national advanced paediatric critical care clinical practice programme.
The post will be based in the paediatric intensive care unit.
The successful applicant will be appointed under the terms and conditions of the consultant contract.
Job responsibilities
The successful applicant will be expected to provide significant cover for the South Thames Retrieval Service including educational support of the service and the region. The South Thames Retrieval Service is integrated and staffed from the PICU. Day to day management of the service is one of the main responsibilities of the on-call consultant team with support from other PICU colleagues. An active PICU and retrieval teaching programme to PICU retrieval nurses, nurse practitioners, doctors and the regions nurses and doctors is ongoing and is supported and delivered by the consultant team. This includes education delivered for a national advanced paediatric critical care clinical practice programme.
The post will be based in the paediatric intensive care unit.
The successful applicant will be appointed under the terms and conditions of the consultant contract.
What you need to do now
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