Job Overview
We have an opportunity for an acute consultant paediatrician with an interest in epilepsy to join our friendly paediatric team at Airedale. The department offers a supportive and encouraging environment for professional development and a satisfying work‑life balance.
The role involves covering acute shifts, the children’s ward, the assessment unit and the neonatal unit, with elective work covering outpatient epilepsy and neurology alongside an established consultant and community consultants.
Main Duties of the Job
Epilepsy patients are shared between community paediatricians who look after patients with complex neurodisability, and the paediatrician with expertise in epilepsy. Patients are also supported by an epilepsy specialist nurse.
We have facilities for most neurological investigations you would expect in a District General Hospital, including standard, sleep and 24‑hour ambulatory EEG, CT and MRI. We use the V-CREATE video service to aid diagnosis and participate in the epilepsy 12 national audit.
There are headache clinics and an opportunity to develop further neurology clinics if desired by the successful candidate. Our tertiary centre for neurology referrals and support is Leeds. Airedale has visiting specialists from the local teaching hospital in Leeds, including cardiology, endocrinology, nephrology, rheumatology and various paediatric surgical specialities. There is also an established diabetes and allergy service and we are a shared‑care site for paediatric oncology.
The paediatric rota is 1 in 10 and we have a paediatrician‑of‑the‑week structure. Weekend cover is split between the paediatrician of the week and another consultant. Please see the attached example timetable on page 5.
Working for Our Organisation
We are always looking for enterprising and innovative approaches to how we provide our services. We are a national centre for telemedicine and introduced telehealth to the UK offender healthcare sector and also provide a similar service to patients in their care homes. Community matters to us and we are supported by 400 dedicated volunteers and have strong links with Leeds Medical School, Bradford University, Craven College and Leeds City College to ensure we inspire the workforce of the future.
We want to attract staff who embrace our ‘Right Care’ behaviours of compassion, a commitment to quality of care and working together for patients – we want to make this part of our DNA.
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
For further details of this post please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Full GMC Registration
* MB BCh or equivalent
* Higher qualification in Paediatrics – MRCPCH or equivalent
* Child Protection Training
* On the GMC’s Specialist Register or be no more than three months from obtaining CCT at interview date
Desirable Criteria
* Post‑graduate degree e.g. MD, PhD, MSc
Experience
Essential Criteria
* General paediatric experience post‑SHO
* Training and experience otherwise equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT
* Six months as Middle Grade training on Level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Desirable Criteria
* Experience of working in a DGH general paediatrics
* Six months experience in a speciality useful to the Department
* Management qualification
* Budgetary awareness
* One year as Middle Grade training on Level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
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