Applications are invited for at least one position for full-time and part-time substantive consultant posts in Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine at Southampton Children’s Hospital. It is essential for you to have experience in paediatric cardiac intensive care, renal replacement therapies and techniques of advanced ventilatory support, including the use of inhaled nitric oxide, high frequency oscillation and extracorporeal life support. You should have significant experience in management of severe traumatic head injuries and management of complex patients with multiple organ failure and critical care transport medicine. 

Southampton PICU is a 16 bedded intensive care unit delivering a comprehensive service for all sub-specialties for the geographical area covering the Wessex Region. In addition, a General Paediatric Service is provided for Southampton Health District and congenital cardiac surgical services are delivered to the Thames Valley area.

The regional PIC retrieval service is delivered from UHS in collaboration with Oxford University Hospital. In 2022/23 there were 900 admissions to UHS with 350 level 3 retrievals and 250 transport episodes. All types of cardiac interventional procedures are carried out, with approximately 350 cardiac operations performed each year. UHS PICU has consistently one of the lowest SMRs and highest throughputs per bed of any PICU in the UK. We are a regional ECMO centre offer VV and VA ECMO for respiratory and cardiac support.