Locum Consultant in Paediatric Surgery

Job overview

Applications are invited for a full time post of a Paediatric and Neonatal surgeon at Guy’s & St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.

You are invited to apply for one of two locum Consultant posts in Paediatric and Neonatal Surgery. One is to cover a substantive colleague on a prolonged period of leave. This post has a specialist interest in Lower GI/Colorectal surgery. The other is a new post being created to allow existing members of the department to take up outside opportunities. Both posts are based at the Evelina London Children’s Hospital but also include outreach activity in partner hospitals and will commence as soon as possible.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will, together with consultant colleagues, be responsible for the following:

Diagnosis and treatments of patients of the Trust in such hospitals, health centres or clinics or other premises as required.

Continuing clinical responsibility for the patients in your charge, allowing for all proper delegation to, and training of, your staff.

The post holder must be medically qualified and maintain GMC specialist registration and hold a license to practice.

To develop and maintain the competencies required to carry out the duties required of the post. To ensure prompt attendance at agreed direct clinical care programmed activities. To ensure patients are involved in decisions about their care and to respond to their views.

Where possible to collaborate with academic and clinical colleagues to enhance the Trust’s translational research portfolio, at all times meeting the full requirements of Research Governance.

To provide high quality teaching to medical undergraduates and members of other health care professions as required by the Clinical Director.

To act as educational supervisor and appraiser as delegated by the Clinical Director to ensure external accreditation of training post.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We are seeking two full-time (10 PA) Consultants to join the Paediatric and Neonatal Surgical department. The department has undergone a significant period of change in the past few years and we are now a well-established and respected unit with subspecialist practice embedded in the departmental team. We are looking for individuals with the appropriate skills and personal attributes to complement the existing team members and support the department as we to continue to build the Paediatric Surgical Service to be in the forefront of clinical and academic excellence.

We have a commitment in the department to be collaborative, open and work collegiately. In our busy, emergency orientated service the ability to manage a work load and maintain efficiency is essential.