Pediatric Critical Care Clinical Associate

The Department of Pediatrics, Section of Pediatric Critical Care, at the Alberta Children’s Hospital invite applicants for a 0.50 FTE Clinical Associate Position. 

Clinical Associates are not the Most Responsible Physician and these positions are designed to provide mid-level coverage to the PICU, supporting the PICU attending physician and the rotating resident medical staff to ensure 24/7 coverage. This role will help fill code team coverage for the ACH.   This role will work under the direction of a supervising physician under a multidisciplinary team setting to deliver acute patient care in the area of Pediatric Critical Care at the Alberta Children's Hospital. 
This role will work alongside other members of the Department including physicians and nurses to provide clinical care to pediatric patients in the Intensive Care Unit. This position will work 20 hours per week with approximate 50% day and 50% night coverage. The PICU operates 24/7 with continuous provision of all services irrespective of the time of the day. The physician will hand over patient care directly at the end of each shift to the next team.

The PICU provides care to 900 children per annum as mixed, closed general medical and surgical intensive care with an overall mortality of 2%. We provide extracorporeal life support, extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation, continuous renal replacement therapy, high frequency oscillation, inhaled nitric oxide therapy, as well as conventional mechanical ventilation, non-invasive ventilation and inotropic support. Pediatric cardiac surgery is not performed at the ACH. 

For more information regarding this position, please contact:  Dr Gonzalo Guerra, Section Chief, Pediatric Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics. Interested applicants should apply through the Dr. Jobs Alberta website portal and include the following attachments with their application:

•    Cover letter
•    Curriculum vitae
•    The names and contact information for three references

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