Job overview

Fixed term for 6 months.

This is an exciting opportunity to work at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital. It is the largest children’s hospital in the UK with 371 beds. The hospital provides children’s emergency, secondary and regional tertiary services.

The Department of Paediatric Surgery is the specialist children’s surgery centre in North West England including Neonatal, Oncological, Thoracic, Inflammatory Bowel Disease and specialist day-case surgery, and the surgery of intestinal failure and short bowel; supra-regional service supporting exstrophy, hyperinsulinaemia of the New-born, Metabolic disorders.

Please note: MFT is not a right to work sponsoring organisation for Tier 5. Should a candidate require Tier 5 sponsorship, they must apply through the Academy of Royal College via the MTI Scheme. 

Main duties of the job

We require Senior Locally Employed Doctors to work at ST3-8 level, as part of a surgical team with Junior Locally Employed Doctors and Consultants.  Daytime duties comprise clinical activity on the wards, in theatres and out-patient clinics.  A 1:10 on-call rota will be undertaken with the other middle grade trainees and Locally Employed Doctors.

Working for our organisation

MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £3bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.