Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
20 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Audit
Ability to initiate and implement audit cycles in relation to own work, team’s work and in service wide context.
- Audit
Evidence of completed audit.
- Research
Knowledge and experience of research methodologies
- Experience
Must be able to demonstrate a high level of clinical experience and competence in all aspects of paediatric neurology, with at least 2 years experience of working in the specialty at tertiary level.
- Experience
Experience of delivering care in a regionally distributed service
- Motivation
Motivated to work closely with staff in the Combined Child Health Service to develop an effective and integrated service within a regional network of general and specialist paediatric and neonatal care
- Personality
Good interpersonal and communication skills
- Personality
Team player with multidisciplinary approach to patient care
- Personality
Adaptable
- Management Ability
Knowledge of management structures and management experience (clinical and educational)
- Other requirements
GMC Registration (Specialist Register).
- Other requirements
Satisfactory fitness for employment and for recognition and approval as a trainer with the GMC
- Training and Teaching Experience
Teaching/training/ assessment/ curriculum management skills
- Training and Teaching Experience
Experience in postgraduate and/or undergraduate teaching
- Qualifications (Basic / Postgraduate)
M.B.Ch.B or equivalent
- Qualifications (Basic / Postgraduate)
CCT in Paediatric Neurology or within 6 months of obtaining CCT/ CESR
- Qualifications (Basic / Postgraduate)
GMC registration
- Ability / Knowledge / Clinical Skills / Technical Skills
To be competent in the management of acute neurological and other paediatric emergencies (APLS certification)
- Ability / Knowledge / Clinical Skills / Technical Skills
Commitment to CPD in paediatric neurology
- Ability / Knowledge / Clinical Skills / Technical Skills
Evidence of knowledge of and competence in child protection – Level 3 equivalent
Desirable
8 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Research
Published research or review paper.
- Research
Active or past contributor to research projects
- Personality
Demonstrated ability to lead a multi-disciplinary team
- Management Ability
Evidence of advanced organizational skill needed to run a service
- Other requirements
Full UK Driver’s Licence.
- Qualifications (Basic / Postgraduate)
Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of the UK Health system.
- Ability / Knowledge / Clinical Skills / Technical Skills
EEG interpretation skills; ability to interpret VTEM recordings
- Ability / Knowledge / Clinical Skills / Technical Skills
Familiarity with the complex tone management
Job details
- Job reference: 254229
- Salary: Consultant (£111,430 - £148,064)
- Job closing date: 20/09/2026
- Job Type: Medical and Dental
- Location: Royal Aberdeen Childrens Hospital
- Employment type: Fixed-term
- Hours Per Week: 24
- Job posted date: 25/08/2026
- Employer (NHS Board): NHS Grampian
- Department: Medical Paediatrics
NHS Grampian
Fixed Term Consultant in Paediatric Neurology
Fixed Term for 6 months
24 hours per week
Ref: EG254229
A short/medium term opportunity has arisen to join the tertiary Paediatric Neurology service for children based at Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital (RACH) for a period of 6 months.
Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital is part of the North of Scotland Child and Adolescent Neurology Network (NESCANN) which covers Grampian, Tayside, Highland and the northern isles of Shetland and Orkney.
This post holder will be based in Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital and join one other Consultant Paediatric Neurologist, and will cover 1: 3 rota for daytime (9am-5pm) Neurology cover for the Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital for advice to general Paediatrics, Neonatal Unit and other specialties. There is also an out-of-hours commitment to provide Paediatric Neurology telephone advice across NESCANN health boards on a 1: 5 rota that is shared with Paediatric Neurologists based in Dundee.
The job plan currently consists of 6 programmed activities/ week. Responsibilities will include Neurology ward rounds, continuing care, Outpatient Clinics and clinical administration.
Informal enquiries should be made to: Dr Elma Stephen, Consultant Paediatric Neurologist - elma.stephen@nhs.scot Dr Domenico Serino, Consultant Paediatric Neurologist - domenico.serino@nhs.scot Dr Sarah Jarvis, Consultant Paediatrician and Service Clinical Director – sarah.jarvis2@nhs.scot
Telephone: switchboard on 0345 456 6000 requesting any of the above
Full registration with a licence to practise with the GMC is required. (licence to practise must be in place prior to starting in post). For more information visit www.gmc-uk.org
Those trained in the UK should have evidence of higher specialist training leading to CCT or be within 6 months of confirmed entry on the GMC Specialist Register from date of interview.
CESR (Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration) or Portfolio Pathway route doctors are only eligible to apply for a substantive Consultant post once CESR or Portfolio Pathway specialist registration is awarded. Those with an International Recognised Specialist Qualification approved by GMC should have a confirmed entry on the GMC Specialist Register.
Apply for this post by visiting apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk and search for the above Ref No: EG254229
Closing date: Sunday 20th September 2026
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