International Clinical Fellow In Paediatric Critical Care Medicine

International Paediatric Critical Care Fellowship

The Division of Paediatric Critical Care Medicine of Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) has devised a 12 to 24 month fellowship programme to meet the requirements of senior trainees from around the globe seeking to qualify as specialists in Paediatric Critical Care Medicine.

The Division of Paediatric Critical Care Medicine

CHI at Crumlin houses a 23 bedded Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) incorporating both a General and Cardiac ICU. It is one of the largest ICUs in the UK and Ireland with approximately 1,000 admissions per annum and supports multiple national sub-specialist services including cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery (at quaternary level for the Island of Ireland), oncology, gastroenterology, respiratory medicine, endocrinology, neurology and ENT. Furthermore, it houses Ireland’s only extracorporeal life support (ECLS) service for children.

The PICU at CHI Temple Street is a 9 bedded general unit which supports the national metabolic and neurosurgical services amongst others and facilitates the national renal transplant programme. It receives over 400 admissions yearly.

Both units staff the Irish Paediatric Acute Transport Service (IPATS), which stabilises and retrieves patients referred from throughout Ireland, by both land and air.

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants must have completed at least 2 years of subspecialty training in the field of paediatrics, anaesthesiology or emergency medicine and 6 months of tertiary level neonatal, paediatric or adult intensive care.

Applications

Fellowships commence in Jan or July of any given year. We advise those interested to apply at least 12 months in advance of their preferred start date and ideally 18 months in advance albeit occasionally places may become available at short notice and enquiries are welcome at any time.

Competition Specific Selection Process

The criteria for short listing are based on the requirements of the post as outlined in the eligibility criteria and/or the essential & desirable knowledge, skills outlined in the attached job description.

Failure to include information regarding these requirements may result in you not being called forward to the next stage of the selection process

To apply for this position, please send a CV and letter of application, by clicking ‘Apply for Job’ on the advertised post on CHI.jobs.

Applications will not be accepted through direct email or any other method.

Informal Enquiries can be obtained from:

Dr Cormac Breatnach at cormac.breatnach@childrenshealthireland.ie

For other queries relating to this recruitment process, please contact medicalrecruitment@childrenshealthireland.ie