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Locum Paediatric Consultant
The closing date is 15 July 2025
The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (RNOH) has an exciting opportunity within the Childrens Hospital Unit to appoint a Locum Paediatric Consultant (5PAs).
The postholder will be expected to maintain the highest clinical standards in the practice of paediatrics and will undertake any reasonable clinical responsibility which relates to paediatric medicine
The post includes 8 full attending weeks per year with daily ward round for the paediatric inpatients in CHDU and Coxen ward. Attending weeks run Wednesday to Wednesday and there is an MDT handover meeting on Wednesday. Attending weeks can be split in accordance with the needs of the individual and service.
You must be fully registered with the GMC/GDC and hold a full License to Practise and be on the specialist register, or within six months of attaining your CCT or equivalent at interview stage.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will be expected to maintain the highest clinical standards in the practice of paediatrics and will undertake any reasonable clinical responsibility which relates to paediatric medicine.
The post includes 8 full attending weeks per year with daily ward round for the paediatric inpatients in CHDU and Coxen ward. Attending weeks run Wednesday to Wednesday and there is an MDT handover meeting on Wednesday.
The consultant is expected to provide further on site paediatric input until 5 pm (weekdays) and 1pm (weekends). Ward cover is provided by the attending consultant paediatrician off site from 5pm to 8am (weekdays) and off site from 1pm-9am (on weekends).
The post holder will be expected to take a lead role in the care of postoperative patients on the childrens ward.
There is specific time allocated within this role for supporting the pre-assessment of children with complex neuromuscular conditions for spinal deformity correction.
The post holder will be expected to take an active and engaged role in departmental and academic responsibilities as allocated by agreement across the department, including cover for colleagues annual leave and other authorised absences as appropriate.
About us
RNOH Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (RNOH) is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a global leader in our field. We provide a dynamic working environment where we support frontline staff to implement improvements so that we can realise our vision of being a world leading neuro-musculoskeletal hospital providing the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS, delivering world leading research, and offering a strong foundation of education, training and career progression. Our dedicated staff come from diverse backgrounds, and our patients benefit from the wide range of experience they bring to the trust. RNOH brings unrivalled expertise together in one place allowing us to deliver some of the worlds most complex and innovative care to our patients. RNOH is rated good by the CQC and covers two sites, one in central London and one in Stanmore - which has recently opened The Stanmore Building, a new, state-of-the-art inpatient facility. For more information, please access the following link: https://www.rnoh.nhs.uk/
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The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust aims to be a world-leading orthopaedic hospital with the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS.
Job responsibilities
Jobs with 5 Programmed Activities will be offered as 4 Direct Clinical Care (DCC) and 1 Supporting Professional Activity (SPA). There will be an initial job plan review meeting with the Clinical Director within the first 6 months of employment. The specific job plan will be developed in partnership between the needs of the department and the successful applicant.
The post will have direct clerical and operational support as well as secondary administrative support to facilitate the consultants participation in national and local audits and registries.
The department are moving towards a team-based approach to their workload.
Resources are deployed flexibly in the way that best meets patients needs. The post holder would be expected to participate in this approach.
The job plan will involve the following commitments: -
Up to 4 PAs Direct Clinical Care including:
8 attending weeks per year
No less than 1 PA Supporting Professional Activities
Agreement should be reached with the Clinical Director with regard to scheduling of activities, including Supporting Professional Activities.
Person Specification
Education, qualification and training
* MRCPCH by examination or equivalent
* Full GMC registration
* Entry on the GMC specialist register via CCT/CESR/CESR-CP - proposed CCT date must be within 6 months of interview.
* Level 3 safeguarding training
* Evidence of training with regards to teaching health professionals
Skills and Knowledge
* Evidence of working effectively within a multi-specialist inter-disciplinary team environment
* Experience of preparing medically complex patients for surgery
* Interest in Respiratory/Neurodisability medicine
Experience
* Experience in UK Health system
* Experience of acute postoperative care.
Audit and Clinical Effectiveness
* Demonstration of an understanding of clinical audit.
* Evidence of having undertaken audits which have changed clinical practice.
Managerial
* Demonstration of an understanding of NHS management structure.
* Evidence of attendance on managerial course(s),
Communication and personal skills
* Able to communicate with and motivate colleagues, medical and non-medical.
* Evidence of being a good communicator.
* Demonstrates professionalism in attitude and application. Good Team worker.
* Evidence of ability to lead and motivate a team
People
* Able to integrate within the Paediatric Unit and compliments the existing skills/ interests of the Paediatric Directorate.
Circumstances
* Willing to reside within 30 minutes drive of the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital when on-call.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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