Consultant Paediatrician

Job summary

This post is for a Consultant Paediatrician with interest in Neonatal Medicine based at the Worcestershire Royal Hospital. The post holder will have the majority of their duties based at the Worcestershire Royal Hospital but will be expected to undertake outpatient clinics in a variety of settings around the whole county, including Redditch, Evesham, Malvern, Kidderminster. The Maternity and Paediatric Services provided within Worcestershire have recently been reviewed through a joint process with NHS England and the three local Clinical Commissioning Groups. The model agreed sees all Inpatient Paediatric and Neonatal Services based at the Worcestershire Royal Hospital. All births will be at the Worcestershire Royal Hospital with the option of the CCGs commissioning a Midwifery Led Unit in North East Worcestershire in the future should they wish to do so. There are no inpatient Neonatal or Paediatric beds at the Alexandra Hospital.The Alexandra Hospital in Redditch will provide an adult only Emergency Department although some children will be seen in a co-located Minor Injuries Unit or General Practice Out of Hours Service.

As part of the Consultant Advisory Appointment Committee, shortlisted candidates will be asked to provide a 5 minute presentation on the topic: Leading Quality improvement on NNU at WRH

Interested candidates are invited to contact Dr Wasiullah Shinwari to discuss the opportunity.

AAC Interview date: 16/07/2026

Please note: JD is pending Royal college approval.

Main duties of the job

This is a countywide post where the applicant will participating in a 1 in 8 rota covering the neonatal unit and 1 in 16 weeks covering paediatric assessment pathway (PAP), and also perform general paediatric clinics primarily at Worcestershire Royal Hospital, Alexandra Hospital (Redditch), and Kidderminster Treatment Centre. Additional clinics operate at Malvern and Evesham Community Hospitals.

About us

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Being open and honest

Ensuring people feel cared for

Showing respect to everyone

We are committed to developing a culture of continuous improvement by embedding the principles of our Improvement System.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

DBS Checks and Costs

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check (at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting Information section for more details on DBS checks and Costs.

Details

• Date posted: 03 June 2026
• Pay scheme: Hospital medical and dental staff
• Salary: £113,565 to £150,569 a year On-call availability supplement where applicable
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working
• Reference number: C9365-26-0430
• Job locations: Worcestershire Royal Hospital, Charles Hastings Way, Worcester, WR5 1DD, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

This job description, together with the job plan, will be reviewed annually and agreed with the Clinical Director and Divisional Director, on behalf of

the Chief Medical Officer, to ensure that it continually reflects the areas of work, clinical responsibility of the post and purchaser requirements.

• A suitably experienced post-holder will be expected to provide a clinical service in the relevant specialty to patients of the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust and to General Practitioners.
• The post-holder will be expected to provide a service to patients of the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, General Practitioners and to attend multi-disciplinary meetings. The successful candidate will be expected to work within multi-disciplinary teams in providing high quality clinical care. It is anticipated work will be undertaken on three sites and closer to the patients home. The Trust is seeking to extend services to GP surgeries/health centres etc and job plans may be revised in due course.
• The post-holder will provide support to the A&E department and acute medicine to ensure timely appropriate care and patient flow through the hospital.
• The post-holder will provide consultation and advisory service to clinical colleagues in the Trust and Primary Care.