# Locum Consultant in Paediatric Surgery > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/locum-consultant-in-paediatric-surgery/3981d789-393e-48b6-99b8-cccf4ee07a7c - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/locum-consultant-in-paediatric-surgery/3981d789-393e-48b6-99b8-cccf4ee07a7c.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Birmingham Children's Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Medical doctor - **Speciality:** Paediatrics - **Grade:** Consultant - **Salary:** £113,565 - £150,569 Dependant on experience - **Contract type:** Locum: 12 months - **Employment type:** Full time - 10 sessions per week (Consultant on call rota) - **Closing date:** 2026-09-30T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-02T14:55:06.887Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Birmingham_Black_Country/Birmingham/Birmingham_Womens_Childrens_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Paediatric_Surgery/Paediatric_Surgery-v8182175 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8182175?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.bwc.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Applications are invited for a Locum Consultant Paediatric Surgeon to join the team in Department of Paediatric Surgery and Urology at Birmingham Children’s Hospital. This is a locum post, in the first instance but has the possibility of becoming substantive in 1 year. This post will be to provide paediatric surgery cover on an unselected on-call and to provide routine general paediatric surgery, and to work alongside Mr A Lander, Miss Anna Harris and Mr Ian Jones and in the colorectal team alongside the colorectal clinical nurse specialists and Physician Associate, and if the candidate does not have expertise in colorectal surgery now, to develop this interest and competence in post. Birmingham Children’s Hospital is part of Birmingham Women & Children’s NHS Foundation Trust. This comprises of 2 hospitals: Birmingham Children’s Hospital (BCH) and Birmingham Women’s Hospital (BWH), and includes Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) providing CAMHS care. The hospital covers a population of over 5 million and provides secondary, tertiary and quaternary services. It is a designated Paediatric Major Trauma centre. Paediatric Surgical service covers neonatal and general paediatric surgery, as well as gastroenterology, oncology, colorectal surgery, minimally invasive surgery, major trauma and non-cardiac thoracic surgery. ### Main duties of the job The Department of Paediatric Surgery & Urology is made up of 13 Consultant Surgeons, 13 Tier 2 clinicians, 3 Clinical Nurses Specialist teams and 3 Physician Associates. The Paediatric Urologists provide a service which encompasses all areas of Paediatric Urology practice except for Bladder Exstrophy / Epispadias. The Paediatric Urologists provide a separate Paediatric Urology on-call service to the Paediatric surgeons. This is a locum post in paediatric surgery. The successful applicant will be expected to have, or to develop, a subspeciality interest in Colorectal surgery (including anorectal malformations, Hirschsprung Disease, Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) and intestinal failure and support in the provision of these areas of practice. This is a 10 PA job, including both elective and on-call commitments. This post does not include the provision of any Specialist Paediatric Urology. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust. When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable). Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment. ### 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 ### Teaching **Essential** - Experience of supervising Registrar's and equivalent. - Ability to teach operative and clinical skills. **Desirable** - Ability to supervise & take part in research / audit - Train the trainer qualification ### Qualifications **Essential** - FRCS(Paed) or equivalent or overseas equivalent. **Desirable** - MD, PhD, MSc or equivalent - Post CCT Fellowship in Paediatric Colorectal Fellowship ### Audit and research **Essential** - Has undertaken audit and completed an audit cycle - Evidence of research activity and presentations **Desirable** - Clinical Trials experience as associate PI/sub-PI/PI/CI - Evidence of achieving grant funding - In-vitro/in-vivo/ex-vivo research experience - First or senior author on paper published in peer reviewed literature with paediatric Colorectal Surgery. ### Personal Qualities /Disposition **Essential** - Co-operative - Good at shared care - Good team member - Have leadership qualities - Good communication skills **Desirable** - Pleasant and cheerful ### Special Knowledge/ Abilities or Experience **Essential** - Ability to manage full range of Paediatric Surgical cases. - Ability to take full responsibility for clinical care of patients. - Able to operate independently. - Advanced laparoscopy experience - Logbook to be available. - Portfolio to be available. - Ability to complete busy surgical on-call commitments. - Experience of resident doctor supervision - Definitive Trauma surgical skills course or equivalent - Independent practice for outpatient perioperative and operative management of neonatal and colorectal cases **Desirable** - Consultant experience within the UK. - Consultant Paediatric Surgery on-call experience within the UK. - Current APLS or equivalent - Sub-speciality interest and experience in lower GI/colorectal - Experience in vascular access - Experience in management of resident doctors at Core and higher surgical level; experience of management of trainees in trouble. - Evidence of membership of specialist organisations/groups e.g. BAPS ## Documents - [job plan (pdf, 456.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10485597) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 325.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10584075) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.