Overview
Applications are invited for a whole-time or part-time consultant in Paediatric Gastroenterology. This will be a substantive permanent post. This opportunity has arisen due to retirement of a consultant colleague.
You will join 3 consultants and a team of paediatric gastroenterology specialist nurses, paediatric surgery specialist nurses, a specialist gastroenterology dietitian, a PN and gastroenterology pharmacist and full support staff. We provide services for children and families in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland and further afield. We are a GRID training centre, and provide a full range of tertiary gastroenterology services including managing IBD, intestinal failure including Home PN, and full range of gastroenterological conditions. Day case investigations and treatments are done on our daycare ward. Our working week includes management of inpatients, outpatient clinics (individual, telephone clinics and multidisciplinary clinics), regular endoscopy lists, on service weeks and weekly nutrition round on neonatal unit and paediatric wards. Special interest in leading regional intestinal failure service is desirable.
On the interview date, applicants must already be on the GMC specialist register with a certificate of completion of specialist training in Paediatric Gastroenterology (or equivalent training e.g. CSER), or be within 6 months of completion. Our new strategy, developed with the support and feedback of colleagues, patients, and partners, is our compass for the next seven years (2023-2030). We have four primary goals: high-quality care for all, being a great place to work, partnerships for impact, and research and education excellence. We will embed health equality in all we do - taking active steps to reduce the avoidable differences in healthcare that some people face, working in partnership with communities. Our strategy is underpinned by new values and we will work to ensure they are an everyday reality for all: we are compassionate, we are proud, we are inclusive, and we are one team. This is an exciting moment as we look to the future with clarity on what we already do well and where we need to focus our energies to make an even bigger difference for the people we serve.
About the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust:
http://www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/aboutus/work-for-us/current-vacancies/
Responsibilities include participation in care of paediatric gastroenterology inpatients, and providing advice and input to other specialties. To provide telephone advice to peripheral hospitals (service week model). One multidisciplinary and one to two individual outpatient clinics per week at LRI. Regular endoscopy lists. Participation in telephone clinics. On-call commitment for paediatric gastroenterology (currently telephone only). Involvement as needed in teaching and training (undergraduate and postgraduate). If appropriately trained and experienced, a candidate with a strong interest in leading intestinal failure and Home PN service is desirable.
Duties and Responsibilities of the post
Clinical
* Provide the highest standard of care and professionalism in the inpatient, acute and outpatient settings
* Work collaboratively with the paediatric gastroenterology team and other services
* Work in a multidisciplinary team, participate in MDT meetings and supervise trainees
* Ensure effective communication between all stakeholders including patients, their parents or carers and all members of the multidisciplinary team
* Work to appropriate national and local clinical guidelines and policies
* Work with the team to develop and review protocols of care
* Ensure that consistently high standards of service are delivered by example and mentorship
* Work effectively with the Clinical Management Group clinical quality & safety coordinator to identify and reduce risk, incidents and complaints to ensure that the team learn from any such occurrences to improve patient safety
* Initiate and participate in clinical audit as part of the clinical governance arrangements within the UHL Trust
* Instigate and engage with Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) initiatives
* Actively ensure the appropriate safeguarding of patients
Education and Training
* Clinical supervision of trainee doctors
* Clinical teaching of medical students
* Undertaking trainees work-based assessment and providing clinical supervisor reports
* Participation in undergraduate examinations
* Develop and participate in outreach education to primary care and other stakeholders
Research
It is the aim of the Leicester Children's Hospital to continue to develop the University Hospitals of Leicester as a recognised centre of excellence. This will require not only excellence in the clinical service but also an on-going programme of excellence in education and research. Participate in local, national and international research studies (when available) in collaboration with departmental colleagues
Management and Administration
* Undertake managerial duties associated with the care of their patients and the running and development of their Clinical Department
* Have an understanding of the wider health agenda and modern NHS
* Engage fully with the Children's Hospital Strategy and the strategic direction of the wider trust
* Be able to account for their non-fixed session time - this may be filled with additional teaching, audit, research and/or administrative duties
* It is not envisaged that the post holder will have a designated budgetary responsibility, although the post holder will be expected to work with the Management Team and Lead Clinicians to ensure that the service is delivered within budget
This advert closes on Wednesday 24 Dec 2025
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