General Paediatric Consultant, interest in Spinal Perioperative Care
Accepting applications until: 25-Jan-2026 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 25-Jan-2026 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Guys & St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SE17EH
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 6 sessions per week
Salary
- Salary
- £109,725 - £145,478 6 PAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant)
Specialty
- Main area
- General Paediatrics
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
Evelina London is seeking a 6PA consultant paediatrician, to work embedded within the paediatric spinal service, to lead on the development of robust, holistic pre-operative medical support for complex children undergoing spinal surgery.
The paediatric spinal service at Evelina is expanding. The majority of children and young people undergoing surgery are medically complex. The appointed candidate will work closely with the established spinal team in developing the service to ensure individualised, holistic and high quality care. The candidate will provide medical input to the current pre-assessment pathway and lead on pre-operative MDT meetings. The appointed candidate would be expected to lead on the developments of pathways and guidelines and deliver education, training and support to members of the spinal multi-disciplinary team.
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The postholder will join the general paediatric service who will provide oversight of the care they provide and ensure professional development and appraisal and will contribute to the delivery of general paediatric care. They will also work closely with the general paediatricians and other members of the MDT who make up the Evelina Compass Team, who will provide proactive medical input for medically complex post-operative spinal patients.
The successful candidate would work across the Medical and Surgical Directorates in Evelina London and will work closely with the Head of Service for Paediatric Spine and Lead Spine Anaesthetist in the development of the spinal perioperative service.
Working for our organisation
Caring for more than 95,000 babies, children and young people each year, Evelina London Children’s Healthcare provides comprehensive health services from before birth, throughout childhood and into adult life. ELCH is part of Guys and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust which is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation Trusts.
The Evelina London Children’s Hospital provide a large range of local hospital and community services for children in South London, Lambeth and Southwark, as well as an almost comprehensive range of specialist services for children with rare and complex conditions from across South London, Kent, Surrey and Sussex.
It is the 1st children’s hospital in the UK to be rated as ‘Outstanding’ by the Quality Care Commission. It is the 2nd largest provider of children’s hospital services in London. Our vision is to be a world leading centre of life-changing care for children, young people and their families. We want to improve the lives of children and young people by:
·Applying consistently outstanding life-enhancing healthcare
·Educating and training people to deliver effective child-centred care and treatment
·Undertaking research that adds to knowledge about how to improve child health and change practice
ELCH has over 150 inpatient beds plus a further 52 neonatal cots in the North Wing adjacent to maternity services, on the St Thomas’ Hospital site. There are also a number of other dedicated facilities for children’s services within St.Thomas’.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Role includes:
· Development of paediatric peri-operative spinal service
· Targeted pre-operative holistic medical review alongside anaesthetic colleagues and other specialist teams as part of existing pre-assessment pathway
· Active involvement in discussion and decision making as to whether and when surgery is in best interests of child and family
· Specialist medical input into the optimisation of patients medically pre-surgery
· Active participation in Spinal MDT meetings
· Leading on the development of inpatient guidelines, education and training
· To provide general paediatric services to the Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
The appointed candidate would also be expected to also contribute to other areas such as:
- High dependency care and patient safety
- Education and training
- Research
- Quality improvement and audit
- Clinical and educational supervision
See Job description and person spec for further details.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Professional Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MRCPCH or equivalent
- On the GMC’s Specialist register OR within six months of CCT at time of scheduled interview (Note: CESR applicants must be on the Specialist register at the point of application)
Desirable criteria
- MD or PhD
Clinical Skills & Experience
Essential criteria
- Comprehensive clinical experience in General Paediatrics
- If UK trained, must have minimum of 2 years training / experience in General Paediatrics
- Valid Level 3 Safeguarding Training
- Valid APLS training or APLS instructor status
- Ability to work as an effective member of a multidisciplinary team
- Excellent communication skills and an ability to communicate effectively with colleagues; both clinical and non-clinical, and with children and their carers / relatives.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of training junior medical staff in general paediatrics
- Experience in the management of complex paediatric patients
- Experience in the peri-operative management of complex surgical patients
- Experience in a relevant paediatric subspecialty. For example neurology, respiratory, gastroenterology or endocrinology
- Valid NLS training
Audit Management & IT
Essential criteria
- Track record of clinical governance, audit, quality improvement, management and IT skills
- Understanding of principles of audit and quality improvement
- Evidence of understanding of the role of clinical management
Desirable criteria
- Ability to advise and contribute to planning of service developments
- Management training or qualification
- Evidence of leadership in the development of clinical services
Research. Teaching skill & experience
Essential criteria
- Track record of research, publications
- Understanding of the principles and applications of clinical research
- Experience of teaching and training undergraduates, postgraduates and junior medical staff
- Ability to teach clinical skills
- Evidence of contribution to effective clinical audit and clinical risk management
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of original research
- Publications in peer reviewed journals
- Teaching qualification
- Experience in clinical guideline development
- Appraisal training
Leadership / Management skills
Essential criteria
- Communication; Ability to communicate with clarity and intelligently in written and spoken English; ability to build rapport, listen, persuade/ negotiate.
- Accountability; Ability to take responsibility, lead, make decisions and exert appropriate authority.
- Interpersonal Skills; Empathy, understanding, listening skills, patience and ability to work co-operatively with others.
- Able to change and adapt, respond to changing circumstances and to cope with setbacks or pressure.
Desirable criteria
- Staff Management; Experience of performance management, developing and motivating staff
- Knowledge of finance and budgets
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Marie White
- Job title
- General Paediatric Head of Service
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02071887188
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