Job requirements
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Essential
19 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
- Research
Active or past contributor to research projects
- Experience
Must be able to demonstrate a high level of clinical experience and competence in acute paediatrics.
- 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 Paediatric and neonatal care
- Personality
Good interpersonal and communication skills
- Personality
Team player with multidisciplinary approach to patient care
- Personality
Adaptable
- Qualifications
M.B.Ch.B or equivalent
- Qualifications
MRCP or MRCPCH or equivalent higher professional training.
- Management Ability
Knowledge of management structures and management experience (clinical and educational)
- Other requirements
GMC Registration (Specialist Register). 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
- Ability / Knowledge / Clinical Skills / Technical Skills
To be competent in the management of acute paediatric emergencies.
- Ability / Knowledge / Clinical Skills / Technical Skills
Commitment to CPD in General Paediatrics
- Ability / Knowledge / Clinical Skills / Technical Skills
Certification in APLS or equivalent.
- Ability / Knowledge / Clinical Skills / Technical Skills
Evidence of knowledge of and competence in child protection – Level 3 equivalent
- Ability / Knowledge / Clinical Skills / Technical Skills
Have an understanding of legal and forensic medicine as it relates to child protection.
Desirable
9 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Research
Published research or review paper.
- Experience
Have considerable clinical experience of assessing and examining children and young people for possible abuse or neglect
- Personality
Demonstrated ability to lead a multi-disciplinary team
- Qualifications
Higher degree PhD, MD or MSc
- Qualifications
SPIN in Child Protection
- Management Ability
Experience of supporting service development
- Other requirements
Full UK Driver’s Licence.
- Training and Teaching Experience
Experience in postgraduate and/or undergraduate teaching
- Ability / Knowledge / Clinical Skills / Technical Skills
Evidence of knowledge of and competence in child protection – Level 4 equivalent
Job details
- Job reference: 254235
- Salary: Specialist Grade (£100,870 - £111,441)
- Job closing date: 29/09/2026
- Job Type: Medical and Dental
- Location: Royal Aberdeen Childrens Hospital
- Employment type: Permanent
- Hours Per Week: 40
- Job posted date: 01/09/2026
- Employer (NHS Board): NHS Grampian
- Department: Medical Paediatrics and Community Child Health
This is a 40 hour, permanent post. The appointee will provide General Paediatric Services for children and will be based at Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital.The post holder will join a team of Resident Doctors to contribute to the acute paediatric rota. They will contribute to a daytime child protection rota. This post will also include contribution to a cluster clinic model for the delivery of outpatient general paediatric care.
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
Please contact us to find out more. We would be pleased to organise visits for interested applicants.
Further information is available from:
Dr Sarah Jarvis, Consultant Paediatrician, Service Clinical Director:
sarah.jarvis2@nhs.scot
Apply for this post by visiting apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk and search for the above Ref No.
Closing date: 29 September 2026
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This advert is for Specialist Paediatrician with Special Interest in Child Protection with NHS Grampian in Aberdeen, Scotland. It is listed as a Senior Medical doctor Paediatrics role. The advertised salary is £100,870 - £111,441. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 29 Sep 2026.
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