Job summary
Employer heading
Locum Consultant in Paediatric Surgery
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.
We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Childrens NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:
- Great flexible working opportunities
- Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Extensive staff health and well-being programmes
Job overview
We require two full-time (10PA) locum consultants to join the Department of Paediatric Surgery and Urology. The successful applicant will work alongside the current consultant team to provide outpatient and inpatient services at Alder Hey. They will also be expected to provide services at one or more partner hospitals.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicants will primarily work within the Department of Paediatric Surgery consisting of 12 Consultant Paediatric Surgeons, alongside a highly skilled specialist nursing team.
The post offers 10 PA’s which consists of 7.5 Direct Clinical Care PAs, including specific PAs for on call commitments in General Paediatric Surgery at Alder Hey Hospital, currently as part of a 1 in 10 rota. 1.0 PAs are awarded for SPA and Admin, respectively.
Working for our organisation
As a leader in child healthcare and research, Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust provides care for more than 275,000 children and young people each year, making us one of the biggest and busiest children’s hospitals in Europe. This care is delivered not only on our main site in Liverpool, but in patients’ homes and communities, and at other hospitals across the North of England.
Our state-of-the-art hospital, on our main site in Liverpool, opened in October 2015. It sets a new benchmark within the NHS and has won many prestigious industry awards. Buildings, however, are only as good as what happens inside them.
Our highly professional, skilled staff include some of the best clinicians in their field in the world. This expertise is combined with a care and compassion, evident in all of our staff, that our patients and families tell us is unique. This dedication and passion for putting our patients at the heart of everything we do has helped us to achieve a rating from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) of ‘Good’ overall and ‘Outstanding’ in the category of ‘Caring’. This is something that we’re proud of, but it’s something that wouldn’t have been possible without our staff.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful candidate will work alongside the current consultant team in providing emergency and elective paediatric surgery. Emergency duties will be according to a rota of approximately 1 in 10 FTE and include the full range of emergency paediatric and neonatal surgery.
Emergency daytime consultant cover Monday to Friday is by a designated ‘Surgeon of the Week’ who does not have elective scheduled activity and provides continuity of care for children presenting as emergencies. This week includes input to neonatal surgical patients both at Alder Hey and Liverpool Women’s Hospital, where three times weekly ward rounds are provided. An additional ‘2nd on’ consultant provides 24 hour on-call emergency cover including split weekends (Fri/Sun and Sat) with a rest day following.
Elective activity will include both outpatient and inpatient service at Alder Hey and at partner hospital(s) with whom we hold Service Level Agreements including Glan Clwyd Hospital, Blackpool Victoria Hospital, Royal Preston Hospital and Stoke University Hospital, Arrowe Park, Warrington, Leighton, Wrexham, Chester, Bangor and Ormskirk Hospitals.
Person specification
GMC
Essential criteria
- GMC registration
Relevant Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant Experience
Research activity
Essential criteria
- Research activity
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Georgia Von Bargen
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Miss Sarah Almond
Clinical Director, Consultant Paediatric Surgeon (SI in Lower Gastrointestinal Surgery),
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
0151 293 3693
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