# Consultant Paediatrician

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Chesterfield Royal Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Medical doctor
- **Speciality:** Paediatrics
- **Grade:** Consultant
- **Salary:** £113565.00 to £150569.00
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 10 sessions per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-30T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-16T16:08:27.863Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8264842
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8264842?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.chesterfieldroyal.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

We are looking to appoint a Consultant Paediatrician with a special interest in neurology / neurodisability to join our highly rated Paediatric department at Chesterfield Royal Hospital.

We provide high-quality patient centred care, maintain excellent team working, resilience, and have developed effective, close working relationships with other colleagues across the Network.

Your job plan will involve provision of services in neurodisability and epilepsy. An interest in other Paediatric subspecialities such as children in care is welcomed and candidates are encouraged to discuss further opportunities with team. There will also be leadership opportunities in all areas of the job role for an interested candidate.

The Children in Care team provides an efficient and high-performing service for initial health assessments, adoption panels and advisory panels.

### Main duties of the job

Please see the job description for further details about our hospital and department. Interested candidates are strongly encouraged to get in touch to discuss how you could be part of our future plans.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

## Person Specification

### Skills

**Essential**

- IT literate.
- Ability to lead and manage staff.
- Ability to clinically supervise junior staff.
- Participation in audit and quality improvement projects

### Experience

**Essential**

- Level 3 safeguarding competency
- Experience in Community Paediatrics
- Teaching experience
- Experience of working within the NHS
- Ability to teach clinical skills.

**Desirable**

- Epilepsy paediatric interest/ experience.
- Experience in Children in Care
- Experience in NHS management
- RCPCH supervision course
- Sound knowledge of multiple NHS structure and systems.

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- MRCPCH
- Full registration with the GMC with a licence to practise and entry on GMC specialist Register or within six months of receipt of Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) at time of interview.

## Documents

- [we work here (pdf, 178.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2691)
- [job description (pdf, 932.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10620985)
- [applicant guidance (pdf, 231.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2457)
- [10 reasons to choose us (pdf, 262.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2458)
- [hello my name is....... (pdf, 113.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2459)
- [our people pan - infographic (pdf, 878.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2757)
- [welcome to our proud to care team (pdf, 618.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2453)
- [wellbeing at chesterfield royal hospital (pdf, 656.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2456)

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