Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking to appoint a Consultant in Emergency Paediatrics to be based at the Northumbria Specialist Emergency Hospital in Cramlington on a full time or part-time basis.

The successful candidate will have expertise in General and Emergency Paediatrics and will have a role in the ongoing development of the Children's Unit at the Northumbria Hospital.

You will work alongside other consultant paediatricians and participate in the training of junior doctors and paediatric advanced clinical practitioners in the department. When on duty your main role will be to provide and co-ordinate patient care in the Children's Emergency Department. There are opportunities to develop a regular out-patient clinic as well as teaching, training and service improvement.

The post is for 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) per week which includes regular on-site working in the evenings and at weekends. There is no regular overnight on call commitment.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

The post will be flexibly time-tabled to meet the demands of the service and the timing of sessions may change as the service develops. Full and part-time applications are welcomed and the content of the job will be agreed with individual candidates.

The Job Plan will typically include an average of 8.5 Programmed Activities for Direct Clinical Care duties and 1.5 Programmed Activities for Supporting Professional Activities (if full time). A proposed job plan has been outlined in Appendix 4 and will be agreed on commencement of appointment.

About us

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.

Job responsibilities

For detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the attached Job Description.

Person specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential

• Fully registered on the UK General Medical Council's Specialist Register or Specialist Registrars may apply if within 6 months of CCT at date of application.
• MRCPCH
• APLS provider (or equivalent)

Experience & Knowledge

Essential

• Clinical training and experience in paediatrics equivalent to that required to gain entry to the UK Certificate of Completed Training (CCT) in general paediatrics
• High standard of clinical skill and expertise in general paediatric medicine
• Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on range of general paediatric problems both emergency and elective and child protection
• Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients

Desirable

• Paediatric Emergency Medicine training/SPIN module
• Recent neonatal experience