LED Trust Doctor ST1/2 in Paediatrics
Closed for applications on: 8-Sept-2025 13:42
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 8-Sept-2025 13:42
Key details
Location
- Site
- Blackpool Victoria Hospital
- Address
- Whinney Heys Road
- Town
- Blackpool
- Postcode
- FY3 8NR
- Major / Minor Region
- Lancashire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Fixed term: 6 months (With the potential to increase to 12 months)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
Salary
- Salary
- £49,909 Pro Rota
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Trainee (ST1/2))
Specialty
- Main area
- Paediatrics
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.
We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year. We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.
We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.
Job overview
We require a 6 month Trust Locum Doctor ST1-2 Level Locally Employed in Paediatrics (possibility of extended period)
The post will have duties/clinical sessions in General Paediatrics and Neonates. The post holders will take part in the ST1 rota as per the job description. Applicants should have a good experience in General Paediatrics and Neonatology and be aiming for a career in Paediatrics.
The department is staffed by 14 Consultants (2 Community based) 2 Specialty Doctors, 4 Specialist Registrars ST4-8 (1 in community), 5 ST1-2 Paediatrics / GP trainees and 5 FY 1-2 doctors. We also have 2 Physician’s associates (PA) as part of our team and 2 Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioners.
Blackpool Teaching Hospital is a busy 849 bedded District General Hospital with an active Post Graduate Centre, a programme of MRCP training, excellent library facilities and medical research and audit is well established. Hence lots of opportunities for training and education.
THIS POST MAY CLOSE EARLY DEPENDING ON NUMBER OF APPLICANTS
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The junior paediatric trainees on the general ward are responsible for the care of babies and children admitted to the children’s ward and assessing patients referred by the Emergency Department and GPs. They are responsible for ward work, keeping thorough, legible notes and discharge summaries, as well as participating in the weekly training.
The trainee is expected to get to know the patients on the wards. Experience will be gained in acute and general paediatrics in the management of patients with shared oncology and child protection work.
The trainee would be expected to both lead and accompany the attending consultant on the regular daily ward round in co-operation with nursing staff and junior trainees.
Duties include:
- Liaison with nursing staff, parents, medical and support services.
- Supervision of ward work and record keeping.
- Liaison with the attending general paediatric consultant.
- Systematic “handover” of patients and their problems to colleagues at shift changes.
- Liaison with tertiary units for shared care patient.
- Attendance and participation with joint medical meetings and training.
- Medical student and junior trainee teaching.
Working for our organisation
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a forward looking and innovative place to work and is committed to Values Based Collaborative Leadership and being a ‘Great Place to Work’.
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was established on 1st December 2007. The Trust gained Teaching Hospital status and became Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in 2010. In April 2012 the Trust merged with community health services from NHS Blackpool and NHS North Lancashire as part of the Transformation of Patient Pathways Programme. We are now a Vanguard site with Extensive Care Services provided for the complex elderly population within Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre.
The Trust serves a population of approximately 440,000 residents across Blackpool, Fylde, Wyre, Lancashire and South Cumbria and the North of England. It comprises Blackpool Victoria Hospital which is a large busy acute hospital and two smaller community hospitals – Clifton Hospital and Fleetwood Hospital and the National Artificial Eye Service. The Trust is also responsible for the provision of Community services such as District Nursing and Midwifery to a large geographical area, extending from Lytham St Annes in the South to Morecambe and Carnforth in the North.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Trainees are responsible for supporting care of babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, the postnatal wards and in the labour ward. They are expected to participate in ward rounds, neonatal-obstetric meetings, paediatric training meetings and monthly perinatal meetings. They are responsible for completing neonatal discharge summaries and NIPEs (Newborn examinations)
Experience will be gained in neonatal resuscitation and Neonatal Intensive Care. Trainees are supported to become proficient in technical skills including: intravenous cannulation, insertion of umbilical lines and lumbar puncture.
Clinical duties include:
- Participation in ward rounds
- Supervision of, and participation in, daily record keeping, updating of results, supervision of junior trainee summaries and completion of complex summaries.
- Attending labour wards and postnatal wards.
- Social and parental support.
- Communication with the parents of infants on delivery suite and post natal ward.
- Opportunity for presentation of cases at the monthly neonatal meetings.
- Neonatal procedures, intravenous lines, UVC, lumbar punctures (teaching and support provided)
- Record keeping.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Intercalated BSc, BA, MSc involving time taken out from standard 5-year undergraduate medical curriculum
- MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
Clinical Skills - Clinical Knowledge & Expertise
Essential criteria
- Ability to apply sound clinical knowledge and judgement to problems
- Ability to prioritise clinical need
- Ability to maximise safety and minimise risk
- Recognition of, and ability to undertake the initial management of, an acutely ill patient.
- At least 12 months experience in Paediatrics (not including Foundation modules) at point of appointmentx
Desirable criteria
- Shows aptitude for practical skills, e.g. manual dexterity
- Successful completion of training in a Paediatric Life Support course e.g. PLS, APLS, EPLS or equivalent
- Success in one out of the three MRCPCH papers at time of application close date
- Successful completion of Level 2 Safeguarding Children: Recognition and Response in Child Protection (or equivalent)
Academic Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates understanding of research, including awareness of ethical issues
- Demonstrates understanding of the basic principles of audit, clinical risk management, evidence-based practice, patient safety, and clinical quality improvement initiatives
- Demonstrates knowledge of evidence-informed practice
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of relevant academic and research achievements, e.g. degrees, prizes, awards, distinctions, publications, presentations, other achievements
- Evidence of interest in, and experience of, teaching
- Evidence of feedback for teaching
Personal Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates clarity in written/spoken communication, and capacity to adapt language to the situation, as appropriate
- Able to build rapport, listen, persuade and negotiate.
- Capacity to use logical/lateral thinking to solve problems/make decisions, indicating an analytical/scientific approach.
- Capacity to take in others’ perspectives and treat others with understanding; sees patients as people
- Demonstrates respect for all.
- Able to work in multi-professional teams and supervise junior medical staff
- Ability to show leadership, make decisions, organise and motivate other team members; for the benefit of patients through, for example, audit and quality improvement projects
- Capacity to work effectively with others.
- Capacity to manage/prioritise time and information effectively
- Capacity to prioritise own workload and organise ward rounds
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of involvement in management commensurate with experience
- Demonstrates an understanding of NHS management and resources
- Evidence of effective multi-disciplinary team working and leadership, supported by multisource feedback or other workplace-based assessments
- Evidence of effective leadership in and outside medicine
- Demonstrates information technology skills.
- Evidence of achievement outside medicine
- Evidence of altruistic behaviour, e.g. voluntary work
- Evidence of organisational skills – not necessarily in medicine, e.g. grant or bursary applications, organisation of a university club, sports section, etc.
Probity – Professional Integrity
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates probity (displays honesty, integrity, aware of ethical dilemmas, respects confidentiality)
- Capacity to take responsibility for own actions
- Understands importance of advocacy, children’s rights, safety, confidentiality and consent
Commitment to Specialty – Learning & Personal Development
Essential criteria
- Understanding and awareness of particular requirements and demands of working with children and their parents
- Shows initiative/drive/enthusiasm (self-starter, motivated, shows curiosity, initiative)
- Demonstrable interest in, and understanding of, the specialty
- Commitment to personal and professional development
- Evidence of self-reflective practice
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Raymond Gill
- Job title
- Assistant Directorate Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01253 958741
- Additional information
For all formal and informal enquires please contact Raymond Gill, Assistant Directorate manager via email at [email protected] or via telephone on 01253 958741.
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