Consultant Paediatrician

NHS; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 114,000 - 151,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Great flexible working opportunities

Lease car scheme and Home Electronics

Generous annual leave and pension

Extensive staff health and well-being

Job summary

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an enthusiastic and committed Consultant Paediatrician to join the Children and Young People’s Gender Service (CYPGS) in the North West. The role focuses on multidisciplinary assessment and care for children and young people with gender-related distress.

You will lead paediatric assessment within a collaborative team, shaping a responsive, evidence-informed service while contributing to teaching, governance and service development.

Qualifications

• GMC registration with licence to practise.
• MRCPCH or equivalent qualification.
• GMC Specialist Registration or within 6 months of gaining it.
• Clinical training and experience equivalent to UK CCT in Paediatrics.
• Level 3 Child Safeguarding training.
• Valid BLS training.
• Higher degree (MSc, DCH, DCCH, MBA) or equivalent.
• APLS and NLS training.

Responsibilities

• Provide medical leadership within the Gender Service.
• Ensure service meets targets and quality standards.
• Develop clinical guidelines and standardised pathways.
• Teach, supervise and support junior medical staff.
• Engage in research and service evaluation where appropriate.

Skills

Pediatric clinical expertise

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Clinical governance

Education

MRCPCH or equivalent

GMC Specialist Registration

Higher Degree (MSc/DCCH/MBA etc)

Tools

APLS Training

NLS Training

Job description

Main area The Children and Young People’s Gender Service (North West) Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Part time
• Job share

10 sessions per week Job ref 411-GS-26-8013798-A

Employer Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Alder Hey Children's Hospital Trust Town Liverpool Salary £113,565 - £150,569 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 25/09/2026 23:59

Consultant Paediatrician

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.

We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.

As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.

You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:

• Great flexible working opportunities
• Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• Extensive staff health and well-being programmes

Job overview

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Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an enthusiastic and committed Consultant Paediatrician to join our evolving Children and Young People’s Gender Service (CYPGS). This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a multidisciplinary, holistic service supporting children and young people experiencing gender-related distress.

The post holder will play a key role in delivering specialist paediatric assessment and care, working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team including psychology, psychiatry, nursing, and allied health professionals. You will help shape and develop a responsive, evidence-informed service focused on the wellbeing, safety, and individual needs of young people and their families.

This dedicated community-based service provides timely access to multi-disciplinary assessment and intervention to children and young people from across the country, predominantly those in the north, up to the age of 18. The North West service works closely and aligns with other regional hubs already ‘live’ or currently in development.

Main duties of the job

• Provide comprehensive paediatric assessment and ongoing care for children and young people referred to the Gender Service
• Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to develop personalised care plans and improve pathways for children and young people
• Contribute to service development, clinical governance, and quality improvement initiatives
• Development of pathways and protocols to improve care for children with complex needs
• Participate in safeguarding processes and holistic risk assessment
• Support teaching, training, and supervision of junior medical staff and multidisciplinary colleagues
• Engage in research and service evaluation where appropriate

Working for our organisation

As one of Europe’s biggest and busiest children’s hospitals, at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, we treat everything from common illnesses to highly complex and specialist conditions.In addition to our main hospital site, we offer paediatric services at a number of community sites and hold local clinics across Merseyside, Cumbria, Shropshire, Wales and the Isle of Man. We also provide specialist inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs in our recently relocated and newly opened state of the art facility.

Alder Hey has a thriving research portfolio and leads research into children’s medicines, infection, inflammation and oncology. We are becoming recognised as one of the world’s leaders in children’s healthcare and research. We contribute to public health, lead cutting-edge research and teach the next generation of children’s specialists. Alongside this is ourInnovation Hub, a dedicated space where clinicians and industries can come together to create new products and technologies.

We know that a children’s hospital is different and that our job is more than just treating an illness. To us, every child is an individual. As well as giving them the very best care, we set out to make them feel happy, safe and confident as they play, learn and grow. At Alder Hey we are here to look after a child and their family and that includes mums, dads, brothers and sisters.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical

Allowing for flexibility according to the skills of the successful applicant, the responsibilities will be as follows:

Clinical work will be particularly around: -

• Assessment and management of children and young people who are experiencing gender incongruence and who may benefit from clinical support
• Vulnerable children, children looked after
• Assessment and management of children with Neurodevelopmental disorders
• Behavioural problems, to assess whether there are underlying developmental aetiologies
• Joint working service to improve pathways for children and young people
• Development of pathways and protocols to improve care for children with complex needs

Key Responsibilities

• Provide medical leadership and expertise working with the Service lead and Service Manager to ensure the specialty achieves its strategic objectives of person centred care
• In conjunction with service management, ensure that performance targets for the specialty are met and reported on.
• Support the standardization of practice by contributing to clinical guidelines / protocols across the service; setting up common sets of clinical standards and outcome measures.

Ensure seamless provision of high-quality integrated care to patients along established care pathways.

To contribute to the services quality improvement strategy.

To support the Clinical Director in ensuring the service has systems for monitoring the quality of clinical care in the service.

To collaborate with the Service Lead in the management of any risks.

Actively promote effective multi-disciplinary working within the specialty and collaborative working with other stakeholders.

Collaborate with Community & Mental Health Clinical Directors to ensure that all medical Colleagues have effective job plans to ensure clinical objectives are met.

Along with the senior management team lead the planning and development of services, offering a medical perspective to discussions.

Deputise for the Clinical Director as required.

Teaching & Academic role

Participate in the teaching and training of undergraduates and postgraduates.

Offer training in child development to health personnel and staff in partner agencies.

Develop research interests in their area of interest and expertise.

Managerial responsibilities

Participate in departmental and Local Authority meetings related to strategic planning.

Take an active role in service review and development

CPD, Audit & Clinical Governance

Participate in CPD activity for which financial support is available

Initiate and undertake appropriate audits as required within the department.

Take part in the clinical governance programme

Proposed job plan

This post attracts 10 programmed activities per week. There may be the opportunity to discuss and review this with the Clinical Director.

The job plan for the first three months will be based on a provisional/indicative timetable. A formal job plan will be agreed between the appointee and the Clinical Director within three months of the commencement date of the appointee.

The supporting professional activities (SPAs) allocation within the provisional job plan is an illustrative guide only and will be finalised following individual agreement with successful candidate.

The basic template for new consultants is 1.5 SPA. Any additional SPA time in the Job Plan is linked to defined roles with clear objectives.

• Personal revalidation, appraisal/job planning/quality improvement /clinical governance/statutory & mandatory training/CPD.
• Engagement in Quality Improvement, including:
• Attending Quality Improvement meetings
• Implementing agreed Quality Improvement recommendations in own practice.
• 0.5 SPA for departmental & Trust meetings and teaching (UG, departmental, Trust).
• Indicative 0.25 SPA for a formal Postgraduate Medical Educational Supervisor role.
• Additional SPA(s) for defined roles or activities in research, departmental leadership or wider governance, and audit, as agreed through the job planning process

The Job plan entails :

Regular job planning meetings will be undertaken with the post holder to ensure that the appointee is remunerated for any additional activities undertaken and that the job plan accurately reflects the overall workload undertaken by the post holder.

Provision of Services

A proposed job plan is outlined below. The sessions may able to be adapted following discussion and ‘changes made by mutual agreement between the Trust and the successful candidate if the service need changes.

AM

PM

DCC PAs

SPAs

Monday

Training/audit/research

Clinic

1.5

0.5

Tuesday

Training/audit/Consultant meetings/ monthly clinic

Clinical admin

2

Clinic

SPA Time

1

1

Thursday

Clinic

Clinical admin/ MDT working

2

Friday

Clinic

Clinical admin

2

On-call

TOTAL PAs

10

Clinics will be booked according to locally agreed templates that are responsive to the needs of children and young people.

Person specification

Shortlisting criteria

• GMC registration with licence to practise
• GMC Specialist Registration for Community Paediatrics, or within 6 months of obtaining GMC Specialist Registration
• MRCPCH or equivalent
• Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT in relevant Paediatric specialty (dual accreditation in General Paediatrics or Community Paediatrics) or Demonstrates evidence of experience in Community Paediatrics at a senior level in the UK for at least a period of 3 years (independent and unsupervised)
• Level 3 Child Safeguarding training
• Valid BLS Training
• Higher Degree e.g. MSc, DCH, DCCH, MBA or post graduate qualification
• Valid APLS and NLS Training

We reserve the right to close vacancies without notice when we have received a sufficient number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply regularly as we will contact you using this regarding your application. All candidates will be notified via email whether or not they have been shortlisted.

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare