Job overview

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated individual to join our well integrated team as a locum paediatric endocrine consultant. This is a 6 month post that will commence in September 2025.

This is a temporary 10 PA post in Paediatric Endocrinology that is intended to cover maternity leave as well as an additional shortfall in consultant hours.

There will be scope to tailor clinical responsibilities to the successful candidates interests. There will be an out of hours ‘telephone’ on-call commitment (approximately one week in 7) to the diabetes and endocrinology on call rota.

In addition to the challenges of the role, we can offer you a commitment to teaching, education, research and audit.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Main duties of the job

The Paediatric Endocrine Department provides a comprehensive tertiary service for a population of approximately 3.1 million across the North East and North Cumbria as well as supporting the secondary health care services in Newcastle (a population of around 500,000).  Most services are delivered in Newcastle upon Tyne but there are regional clinics held in Sunderland, Hartlepool, Stockton on Tees and Middlesbrough (James Cook University Hospital). There are strong links with regional district general hospitals and most are staffed by a consultant team that includes one or more experienced paediatrician/s with a major interest in paediatric endocrinology.

For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: Dr Claire Wood, Senior lecturer and Honorary Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist ([email protected]), Amanda Peacock, Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist ([email protected]) Prof Tim Cheetham, Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist.  0191 2829562 ([email protected]) ; Dr Jason Gane, Clinical director great North Children’s Hospital 0191 2826295 ([email protected]

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Working for our organisation

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.