Employer Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Alder Hey Childrens Foundation Trust Town Liverpool Salary £105,504 - £139,882 Pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 01/07/2025 23:59
Locum Cons in Paeds Surgery with Specialist Interest in Lower GI
NHS Medical & Dental: Locum 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 Children's 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
A Paediatric and Neonatal Consultant is required to join the Department of Paediatric Surgery and Urology at Alder Hey. 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. They will join the sub-specialty Lower GI team. The candidate must have or be within 6 months of expecting to be awarded, CCT (or equivalent) in Paediatric and Neonatal Surgery.
The post is a locum for 12 months in the first instance. Close team working and participation in Multi-Disciplinary Team care will be required. The post will involve participating in both the acute general surgery on-call, and sub-specialty lower GI on-call rotas.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant 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 8 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, and the Lower GI rota, which will become 1 in 4 with the appointment of this post. 2 PAs are allocated for SPA.
Working for our organisation
As one of Europe’s biggest and busiest children’s hospitals, at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, we treat everything from common illnesses to highly complex and specialist conditions.In addition to our main hospital site, we offer paediatric services at a number of community sites and hold local clinics across Merseyside, Cumbria, Shropshire, Wales and the Isle of Man. We also provide specialist inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs in our recently relocated and newly opened state of the art facility.
Alder Hey has a thriving research portfolio and leads research into children’s medicines, infection, inflammation and oncology. We are becoming recognised as one of the world’s leaders in children’s healthcare and research. We contribute to public health, lead cutting-edge research and teach the next generation of children’s specialists. Alongside this is ourInnovation Hub, a dedicated space where clinicians and industries can come together to create new products and technologies.
We know that a children’s hospital is different and that our job is more than just treating an illness. To us, every child is an individual. As well as giving them the very best care, we set out to make them feel happy, safe and confident as they play, learn and grow. At Alder Hey we are here to look after a child and their family and that includes mums, dads, brothers and sisters.
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. The sub-specialty Lower GI rota will become a 1 in 4 commitment with the appointment of this post.
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. There is a regular lines list which the successful candidate will be expected to participate in.
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, Stoke University Hospital, Arrowe Park, Warrington, Leighton, Wrexham, Chester, Bangor and Ormskirk Hospitals.
Person specification
Education & Training
* Full registration with the GMC (or eligible for full registration) and Licensed to Practice.
* FRCS Paediatric Surgery or equivalent
* Completion of higher surgical training in Paediatric Surgery or equivalent
We reserve the right to close vacancies without notice when we have received a sufficient number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply regularly as we will contact you using this regarding your application. All candidates will be notified via email whether or not they have been shortlisted.
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are committed to creating a well-managed, flexible working environment that supports staff and promotes their welfare and development. We actively promote equality and diversity and operate a Zero Tolerance policy to aggression, violence, bullying and harassment.
Should you require any assistance during the application stages please contact recruiting manager of vacancy or the recruitment team at recruitment@alderhey.nhs.uk or call 0151 282 4599
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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.
Name Miss Sarah Almond Job title Clinical Director, Consultant Paediatric Surgeon Email address Sarah.Almond@alderhey.nhs.uk Telephone number 0151 293 3693 Additional information
Miss Rachel Rowson
Service Manager for Paediatric Surgery
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
Rachel.Rowson@alderhey.nhs.uk
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