Employer: Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Manor Hospital and Community
Town: Walsall
Salary: £105,504 - £139,882 Dependent on experience
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 03/02/2025 23:59
Interview date: 07/03/2025
Consultant Paediatrician - Interest in Neurology & Epilepsy
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust provides integrated acute and community Healthcare in the West Midlands serving a population of 260,000 residents. Walsall Manor Hospital houses the full range of district general hospital services. The £170 million development was completed in 2010 and we are continually upgrading.
The work we do is highly rewarding, and in addition to an attractive salary, we offer a valuable range of benefits, including: salary sacrifice scheme; car leasing scheme; on-site staff accommodation (subject to availability); the ability to retain your NHS pension (where applicable) or the opportunity to join an alternative scheme; and the opportunity to develop and implement your expertise in an encouraging yet challenging environment.
We would particularly welcome applications from people from a Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic background and from people with a disability; these groups are currently under-represented at senior level, we value diversity within our Trust and are working to achieve equality in our recruitment.
Job overview
Walsall Healthcare Trust has an exciting opportunity to appoint a Consultant Paediatrician with experience and expertise in paediatric neurology and epilepsy. The appointee will work within the Department of Paediatrics and Neonates at Manor Hospital, Walsall in a substantive capacity. This is to augment the current team in order to manage the increasing general paediatric, paediatric neurology and epilepsy work in the department.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will join an established team of committed paediatricians who work together to plan and deliver an excellent quality of care to the children and young people of Walsall borough.
* Work with other consultants to provide integrated paediatric services with responsibility for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness.
* Provide effective leadership to all staff engaged in specialty and related services.
* Undertake all work in accordance with Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust policies and procedures.
* Have excellent communication and liaison skills and the ability to work within a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency team.
* Participate in the paediatric consultant of the week (PCOW) and paediatric out of hours on-call system as per rota currently operational in the department.
* Provide supervision and training of junior medical staff including undertaking supervised learning events.
* Engage actively in the Trust appraisal and revalidation process.
Person specification
Qualifications
* MRCPCH or equivalent
* Valid registration and license to practice with General Medical Council (GMC)
* Evidence of being on GMC Specialist Register for Paediatrics or be within six months of being admitted to the Register
* Completed Paediatric Epilepsy Training (PET1,2,3)
Clinical Experience
* Broad range of general paediatric knowledge and experience at middle grade level or higher level
* One year experience working in paediatric neurology/epilepsy at middle grade/consultant level
Personal attributes
* An understanding of the current NHS environment, particularly in relation to reforms, initiatives and issues
* Excellent team working and leadership skills
Please note your application will be transferred from the NHS Jobs system to internal Walsall Healthcare Trac System. All correspondence will be sent via Trac.
We reserve the right to close this job early. Interested applicants are therefore advised to apply as early as possible.
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