Locum Consultant Paediatric Surgeon

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

Applications are invited for a Locum Consultant Paediatric Surgeon to join the Department of Paediatric Surgery and Urology at Birmingham Children's Hospital.

This is a locum post, following retirement, and includes both elective and on-call commitments. The successful applicant would ideally be able to commence clinical work on the 18th September 2023. The post will initially be for 2 months, with potential to be extended beyond this.

Main duties of the job

This is a 10 PA post, including both elective and on-call commitments.

This post will include providing elective and on-call commitments in Paediatric Surgery over a 7-week cycle. This is split into 5 weeks of purely "elective" commitments and a 2-week period of "emergency/on-call" provision. During the second of these two "on-call" weeks the post-holder will also provide a neonatal surgery outreach service at Birmingham Women's Hospital. This neonatal surgical outreach service is supported by specialist neonatal surgery outreach nurses and is a patient review service, with no surgery taking place at the Birmingham Women's Hospital. The job plan and commitments, for this post, is like the current working pattern of the substantive consultants in the department.

Although some elective commitments will be fixed the successful applicant will be allocated some theatre or clinic sessions that are being relet. Therefore, there will need to be flexibility around the exact activity each week.

The Department of Paediatric Surgery and Urology comprises of 7 consultant Paediatric Surgeons (Mr S Arul, Mr O Gee (Clinical Lead), Mr I Jester, Mr A Lander, Mr M Pachl, Mr M Singh and Mr G Soccorso) and 5 consultant Paediatric Urologists (Mr H Chandran, Mr L McCarthy, Mr A Robb, Miss R Wragg and Miss E Van der Merwe).

If you would like to discuss this post further, you are invited to contact Mr O Gee (Clinical Lead) - 0121 333 8947.

About us

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.

Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.

Date posted

07 August 2023

Pay scheme

Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade

Consultant

Salary

Depending on experience 10PAs

Contract

Locum

Duration

2 months

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

284-5504985-23-BCKF

Job locations

Birmingham Children's Hospital

Steel House Lane

Birmingham

B4 6NH

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the Job Description and Personal Specification for a full job description and main responsibilities.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the Job Description and Personal Specification for a full job description and main responsibilities.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

FRCS(Paed) or equivalent

Desirable

Paediatric Surgery Fellowship (post CCT)

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

FRCS(Paed) or equivalent

Desirable

Paediatric Surgery Fellowship (post CCT)

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).