Job summary
We have an opportunity for an acute consultant paediatrician with an interest in epilepsy to join the friendly paediatric team at Airedale. The department offers a supportive and encouraging environment for professional development and a satisfying work life balance.
The role involves covering acute shifts, covering the children's ward, assessment unit and the neonatal unit, with elective work covering outpatient epilepsy and neurology alongside an established consultant and community consultants.
Main duties of the job
Epilepsy patients are shared between the community paediatricians (who look after the patients who also have complex neurodisability) and the paediatrician with expertise in epilepsy. Patients are also supported by an epilepsy specialist nurse. We have facilities for most neurological investigations you would expect in a DGH, including standard, sleep and 24-hour ambulatory EEG, CT and MRI. We use the V create video service to aide in diagnosis. We participate in the epilepsy 12 national audit. There are also headache clinics and there is an opportunity to develop further neurology clinics if desired by the successful candidate. Our tertiary centre for neurology referrals and support is Leeds.
Airedale has visiting specialists from the local teaching hospital inLeeds, including cardiology, endocrinology, nephrology, rheumatologyand various paediatric surgical specialities. There is also anestablished diabetes and allergy service, and we are a shared caresite for paediatric oncology.
The paediatric rota is a 1 in 10. Airedale has a paediatrician of theweek structure. We split the cover over the weekend between thepaediatrician of the week and another consultant, please see theattached example timetable on page 5.
About us
We are always looking for enterprising and innovative approaches to the way we provide our services. We are a national centre for telemedicine and introduced telehealth to the UK offender healthcare sector and also provide a similar service to patients in their care homes. Community matters to us and we are supported by 400 dedicated volunteers and have strong links with Leeds Medical School, Bradford University, Craven College and Leeds City College to ensure we inspire the workforce of the future.
We want to attract staff who embrace our 'Right Care' behaviours of compassion, a commitment to quality of care and working together for patients - we want to make this part of our DNA.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details of this post please see attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details of this post please see attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Full GMC Registration
- MB BCh or equivalent
- Higher qualification in Paediatrics -MRCPCH or equivalent.
- Child Protection Training
- On GMC's Specialist Register or be no more than three months from obtaining CCT at interview date
Desirable
- Post Graduate Degree e.g. MD, PhD, MSc
Experience
Essential
- General paediatric experience post SHO
- Training and experience otherwise equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT
- 6 months as Middle Grade training on Level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Desirable
- Experience of working in a DGH General Paediatrics
- Six months experience in a specialty useful to the Department
- Management qualification
- Budgetary awareness
- One year as Middle Grade training on Level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care Uni
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Full GMC Registration
- MB BCh or equivalent
- Higher qualification in Paediatrics -MRCPCH or equivalent.
- Child Protection Training
- On GMC's Specialist Register or be no more than three months from obtaining CCT at interview date
Desirable
- Post Graduate Degree e.g. MD, PhD, MSc
Experience
Essential
- General paediatric experience post SHO
- Training and experience otherwise equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT
- 6 months as Middle Grade training on Level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Desirable
- Experience of working in a DGH General Paediatrics
- Six months experience in a specialty useful to the Department
- Management qualification
- Budgetary awareness
- One year as Middle Grade training on Level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care Uni
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.
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
