The Cleft Lip and Palate Service based at Leeds General Infirmary provides all aspects of multidisciplinary cleft care and management across the Yorkshire regional network. Whilst all cleft surgery is undertaken in Leeds at the General Infirmary other aspects of cleft care are provided on a hub and spoke basis with regular network multidisciplinary clinics in Bradford, York, Wakefield and Hull, as well as in Leeds. The appointee to this new substantive post will work in conjunction with the incumbent cleft surgeon who has reduced clinical activities to a part-time basis. The post is available immediately however it is expected that the successful applicant will take up this post within 2-3 months of appointment. The service is fully staffed by all members of a cleft multidisciplinary team and is supported by a cleft administrative team including Cleft Co-ordinator and Audit Administrator. The team enjoys good relations and mutual support with colleagues in Newcastle. Leeds childrens Hospital Childrens Services in Leeds has 280 inpatient beds.The Clinical Service Unit employs a total of 80 consultants, 56 of whom are Paediatricians providing general, specialist and community childrens medical and surgical services. Following a review of Trust-wide acute hospital services, the centralisation of Childrens inpatient services was be completed in 2010 on the Leeds General Infirmary site. ThefollowingestablishedspecialistchildrensservicesareprovidedfortheYorkshireareawithinthe Northern and Yorkshire Region: PaediatricMedicine Neonatal MedicineLGI and SJUH Neonatal Surgery Oncology/Haematology,includingBMTU Nephrology,DialysisandRenaltransplantation Cystic Fibrosis and Respiratory HepatologyandLiverTransplantation Gastroenterology CardiologyandCardiacSurgery Neurosurgery Neurology Endocrinology Rheumatology PaediatricSurgeryincludingUrology Cleft Lip and Palate IntensiveCare Orthopaedics Plastics ENT Max-Fax Dental