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Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an enthusiastic and committed Consultant Paediatrician to join our evolving Children and Young People’s Gender Service (CYPGS). This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a multidisciplinary, holistic service supporting children and young people experiencing gender-related distress.
The post holder will play a key role in delivering specialist paediatric assessment and care, working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team including psychology, psychiatry, nursing, and allied health professionals. You will help shape and develop a responsive, evidence-informed service focused on the wellbeing, safety, and individual needs of young people and their families.
This dedicated community-based service provides timely access to multi-disciplinary assessment and intervention to children and young people from across the country, predominantly those in the north, up to the age of 18. The North West service works closely and aligns with other regional hubs already ‘live’ or currently in development.
Main duties of the job
- Provide comprehensive paediatric assessment and ongoing care for children and young people referred to the Gender Service
- Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to develop personalised care plans and improve pathways for children and young people
- Contribute to service development, clinical governance, and quality improvement initiatives
- Development of pathways and protocols to improve care for children with complex
- needs
- Participate in safeguarding processes and holistic risk assessment
- Support teaching, training, and supervision of junior medical staff and multidisciplinary colleagues
- Engage in research and service evaluation where appropriate
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical
Allowing for flexibility according to the skills of the successful applicant, the responsibilities will be as follows:
Clinical work will be particularly around: -
- Assessment and management of children and young people who are experiencing gender incongruence and who may benefit from clinical support
- Vulnerable children, children looked after
- Developmental delay
- Assessment and management of children with Neurodevelopmental disorders
- Behavioural problems, to assess whether there are underlying developmental aetiologies
- Joint working service to improve pathways for children and young people
- Development of pathways and protocols to improve care for children with complex needs
Key Responsibilities
- Provide medical leadership and expertise working with the Service lead and Service Manager to ensure the specialty achieves its strategic objectives of person centred care
- In conjunction with service management, ensure that performance targets for the specialty are met and reported on.
- Support the standardization of practice by contributing to clinical guidelines / protocols across the service; setting up common sets of clinical standards and outcome measures.
- Ensure seamless provision of high-quality integrated care to patients along established care pathways.
- To contribute to the services quality improvement strategy.
- To support the Clinical Director in ensuring the service has systems for monitoring the quality of clinical care in the service.
- To collaborate with the Service Lead in the management of any risks.
- Actively promote effective multi-disciplinary working within the specialty and collaborative working with other stakeholders.
- Collaborate with Community & Mental Health Clinical Directors to ensure that all medical Colleagues have effective job plans to ensure clinical objectives are met.
- Along with the senior management team lead the planning and development of services, offering a medical perspective to discussions.
- Deputise for the Clinical Director as required.
Teaching & Academic role
- Participate in the teaching and training of undergraduates and postgraduates. Offer training in child development to health personnel and staff in partner agencies. Develop research interests in their area of interest and expertise.
Managerial responsibilities
Supervise junior staff.
Participate in departmental and Local Authority meetings related to strategic planning.
Take an active role in service review and development
CPD, Audit & Clinical Governance
Participate in CPD activity for which financial support is available
Initiate and undertake appropriate audits as required within the department.
Take part in the clinical governance programme
Proposed job plan
This post attracts 10 programmed activities per week. There may be the opportunity to discuss and review this with the Clinical Director.
The job plan for the first three months will be based on a provisional/indicative timetable. A formal job plan will be agreed between the appointee and the Clinical Director within three months of the commencement date of the appointee.
The supporting professional activities (SPAs) allocation within the provisional job plan is an
illustrative guide only and will be finalised following individual agreement with successful candidate.
The basic template for new consultants is 1.5 SPA. Any additional SPA time in the Job Plan is linked to defined roles with clear objectives.
- Ø 1.0 SPA for:
- Personal revalidation, appraisal/job planning/quality improvement /clinical governance/statutory & mandatory training/CPD.
- Engagement in Quality Improvement, including:
- Attending Quality Improvement meetings
- Contributing data; and
- Implementing agreed Quality Improvement recommendations in own practice. Ø 0.5 SPA for departmental & Trust meetings and teaching (UG, departmental, Trust). Ø Indicative 0.25 SPA for a formal Postgraduate Medical Educational Supervisor role. Ø Additional SPA(s) for defined roles or activities in research, departmental leadership or wider governance, and audit, as agreed through the job planning process
The Job plan entails:
Regular job planning meetings will be undertaken with the post holder to ensure that the appointee is remunerated for any additional activities undertaken and that the job plan accurately reflects the overall workload undertaken by the post holder.
Provision of Services
Clinics will be booked according to locally agreed templates that are responsive to the needs of children and young people.
Person specification
Other
Essential
- Knowledge of recognised tools for the assessment of developmental disorders (Griffiths Mental Development Scales, SOGS etc.)
- Understand multiagency working in the context of the management of children with complex Neuro-disability
- Good knowledge of the theory and practice of child safeguarding
- Awareness of legislation appropriate to paediatric patients
- Familiarity with NICE guidance on the management of childhood epilepsies, spasticity and cerebral palsy
Skills
Essential
- Teaching skills and experience
- Ability to supervise the clinical work of doctors in training and other staff
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
- Ability to organise and prioritise personal workload and that of others.
- Ability to build effective relationships and work collaboratively with staff at all levels of the organisation.
- Ability to relate to patients and carers from a wide range of backgrounds and to empathise with their needs and concerns.
- Ability to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty
- Ability to make decisions based on evidence and experience including the contribution of others
- Evidence of being a team player and effective communicator as part of a multiagency team
- Able to conduct a comprehensive assessment relevant to children and young people with gender diversity or gender incongruence who may benefit from clinical support.
- Able to demonstrate an understanding of the absolute need for child advocacy in any forum
- Leadership: ability to develop a vision and lead the change that brings it into effect within a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency context
- Effective time management, able to work under pressure
- Well-developed reflective and self-care skills and able to foster these attributes in others
- Ability to share knowledge and difficulties with colleagues
- Highly developed IT skills
Knowledge
Essential
- Applicants should be able to demonstrate developed competence across the following 5 qualities contained in the “Delivering the Service” cluster of the NHS Leadership Qualities Framework (LQF).
- Leading change through people
- Holding to account
- Empowering others
- Effective and strategic influencing
- Collaborative working
Experience
Essential
- Ability to take full and independent responsibility and clinical management for clinical care of complex patients
- Teaching experience in a wide variety of settings
- Audit and clinical governance principles including evidence of understanding of audit principles and having taken a lead role in completing at least two audit projects in clinical areas relevant to this application
Desirable
- Experience in other areas relevant to child health e.g. General Practice, Child Mental Health, Obstetrics, Public Health
- Specialist experience in child protection
- Experience of working with Children and Young People in the field of gender
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Self-motivated to set and achieve targets
- Flexible in regards to teamwork
- Effective member of multidisciplinary team
- Reliable work record with regard to attendance/punctuality
- Demonstrable evidence of ongoing commitment to personal and professional development
- Demonstrable evidence of ongoing commitment to the development of a high quality service
- Flexible, adaptable, thorough and resilient
- Demonstrable evidence of ongoing commitment to clinical governance
- An exceptional practitioner who is able to demonstrate ambition for themselves, the team and the service.
- Membership of appropriate professional groups
- Car Driver/ ability to use other means of transport as required by the role.
Education and Training
Essential
- GMC registration with licence to practise
- GMC Specialist Registration for Community Paediatrics, or within 6 months of obtaining GMC Specialist Registration
- MRCPCH or equivalent
- Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT in relevant Paediatric specialty (dual accreditation in General Paediatrics or Community Paediatrics ) or Demonstrates evidence of experience in Community Paediatrics at a senior level in the UK for at least a period of 3 years ( independent and unsupervised)
- Level 3 Child Safeguarding training
- Valid BLS Training
- Note: CESR applicants must be on the Specialist Register at the point of application
Desirable
- Higher Degree e.g. MSc, DCH, DCCH, MBA or post graduate qualification
- Valid APLS and NLS Training
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This advert is for Consultant Paediatrician with Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool, North West, England. It is listed as a Consultant Medical doctor Paediatrics role. The advertised salary is £113,565 - £150,569 per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 19 Jun 2026.
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