# Specialist Paediatrician with Special Interest in Child Protection

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** NHS Grampian
- **Location:** Summerfield House
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Medical doctor
- **Speciality:** Paediatrics
- **Grade:** Senior
- **Salary:** £100,870 - £111,441
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-29T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-01T09:29:09.632Z
- **Source information URL:** https://apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/JobDetail?JobId=264645
- **Application URL:** https://apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/DecideInternalExternal/DecideInternalExternal?JobId=264645
- **Employer website:** https://www.nhsgrampian.org

## Job Content

### 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

## Person Specification

### Audit

**Essential**

- Ability to initiate and implement audit cycles in relation to own work, team’s work and in service wide context.
- Evidence of completed audit.

### Research

**Essential**

- Knowledge and experience of research methodologies
- Active or past contributor to research projects

**Desirable**

- Published research or review paper.

### Experience

**Essential**

- Must be able to demonstrate a high level of clinical experience and competence in acute paediatrics.

**Desirable**

- Have considerable clinical experience of assessing and examining children and young people for possible abuse or neglect

### Motivation

**Essential**

- 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

**Essential**

- Good interpersonal and communication skills
- Team player with multidisciplinary approach to patient care
- Adaptable

**Desirable**

- Demonstrated ability to lead a multi-disciplinary team

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- M.B.Ch.B or equivalent
- MRCP or MRCPCH or equivalent higher professional training.

**Desirable**

- Higher degree PhD, MD or MSc
- SPIN in Child Protection

### Management Ability

**Essential**

- Knowledge of management structures and management experience (clinical and educational)

**Desirable**

- Experience of supporting service development

### Other requirements

**Essential**

- GMC Registration (Specialist Register). Satisfactory fitness for employment and for recognition and approval as a trainer with the GMC

**Desirable**

- Full UK Driver’s Licence.

### Training and Teaching Experience

**Essential**

- Teaching/training/ assessment/ curriculum management skills

**Desirable**

- Experience in postgraduate and/or undergraduate teaching

### Ability / Knowledge / Clinical Skills / Technical Skills

**Essential**

- To be competent in the management of acute paediatric emergencies.
- Commitment to CPD in General Paediatrics
- Certification in APLS or equivalent.
- Evidence of knowledge of and competence in child protection – Level 3 equivalent
- Have an understanding of legal and forensic medicine as it relates to child protection.

**Desirable**

- Evidence of knowledge of and competence in child protection – Level 4 equivalent

## Documents

- [jdps254235 (PDF, KB)](https://apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/GetJobAdvertDocument?Id=1191837&JobId=264645)

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