Senior Fellow in PCC, Retrieval Medicine & Palliative Care Medicine


Company:	NHS Jobs
Salary:	£76,582
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Oxford, OX3 9DU
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	27 Jul 2026
Closing date:	10 Aug 2026

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Summary

Helen & Douglas House The specialist paediatric palliative care team for the region (Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire) are based at Helen House Childrens Hospice. The medical team comprises three part-time consultants and three part-time associate specialists, providing 24/7 specialist support for children in their preferred place. We work closely within a multi-disciplinary team to offer holistic care. The hospice has a five-bedded inpatient unit for children and their families and a bereavement suite. Support is also offered where patients are hospital inpatients (intensive care, neonates, childrens wards) or in their own homes. The hospice MDT includes psychology and counselling, physiotherapy, and clinical nurse specialists. Helen & Douglas House is registered for SPIN training in paediatric palliative care with the RCPCH and GMC. Paediatric Critical Care, Oxford University Hospital The Paediatric Critical Care (PCC) unit provides intensive and high dependency care to the local population and children of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire as well as further afield. It comprises an eight-bedded Intensive Care Area and an adjacent nine-bedded High Dependency ward. The OUH is a major trauma centre and supports a number of medical and surgical specialities, including Infectious Diseases, Respiratory medicine, Cardiology, Neurology, Endocrinology and Gastroenterology, Paediatric surgery, Neurosurgery, craniofacial surgery and Orthopaedic surgery. The department is run by the Consultant of the week, one of eleven Paediatric Critical Care consultants with either a Paediatric or Anaesthetic background. The Consultant is a strong presence on the unit and provides a continuous high level of training and supervision. The department is staffed with 25 Doctors and ACCPs with a background in Paediatrics / Anaesthetics / adult Intensive Care Medicine / Emergency Medicine. Paediatric Intensive Care retrievals from the Oxford region are managed on a 24-hour basis jointly with Southampton General Hospital under the umbrella of the Southampton Oxford Retrieval Team (SORT). SORT provides support to over 15 District General Hospitals in the combined South Central Region. Successful applicants will work both on the shop floor and as part of the retrieval service. The PCC is nationally recognised for grid & SPIN training in paediatric critical care medicine with the RCPCH and GMC.

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