Consultant Paediatrician

Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Wrexham; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading orthopaedic healthcare provider in Wrexham is looking for a committed postholder to support paediatric care across two sites. The role involves ward cover, patient assessments, and outpatient clinic duties. Candidates must have a complete employment history and comply with NHS service standards. This full-time position offers opportunities to shape patient care in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Complete record of employment history is required.
• Explanation for any gaps in employment or education history.
• Must not have provided false or misleading information.

Responsibilities

• Cover all aspects of paediatric ward.
• Assess all patients admitted to the ward.
• Manage medical input into guidelines and audit.
• Provide care in outpatient paediatric clinic.

Job description

Overview

This post is a new 10 programmed activity post created to provide additional support to the existing teams at RJAH and Wrexham Maelor with 5 PAs committed to the role at each site. The post holder will work with both RJAH and Wrexham Maelor teams to create an ethos that allows the continued provision and development of services at either site and across sites where appropriate.

Responsibilities

• All aspects of paediatric ward cover.
• Assessment of all patients admitted to ward.
• Governance - management of medical input into development of guidelines, policies and audit.
• Outpatient Paediatric Clinic care.

Job plan and site details

The post is based on 5 programmed activities of work per week, subject to job planning review. The job plan is based on a full-time role of 10 PAs plus 0.5 of an additional direct clinical care PA. The 0.5 additional direct clinical care PA will be formally identified within the job plan on commencement. If the successful candidate does not wish to accept the offer of the 0.5 additional direct PA, an adjustment to the direct clinical care PAs in the job plan will be made taking into account the needs of both RJAH and BCUHB.

Requirements

Your application form must include a complete record of your employment history. Please explain any gaps in your employment/education history and reasons for these gaps. The Trust maintains the right to withdraw an employment offer or terminate employment if it is later found that an application for employment contained false, misleading or inaccurate information. This would include omissions of previous periods of employment or reasons given for gaps in employment.

Equal opportunities and data

The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust embraces diversity, equality and inclusion and aims to be diverse in age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability and ethnicity. We are committed to ensuring disabled workers aren't disadvantaged when applying for and doing their jobs and offer an interview to all applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the advertised post. Reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act 2010 will be considered upon request.

Additional information

Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (MLCSU) processes recruitment on behalf of Robert Jones Agnes Hunt. Further information on how your personal data is managed can be found in the supporting Privacy Notice. Your application will be made in Trac, the MLCSU's preferred third party recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs and also available in your candidate account. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system. In submitting an application form to Trac, you are giving consent for parts of your application data to be transferred to the NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) and other secure NHS systems to support recruitment and employment within your employing organisation. You also authorize the RJAH Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Electronic Staff Record IAT process should you be appointed to the post.

This is a substantive joint post developed to provide care across two sites – The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (RJAH) and Wrexham Maelor Hospital – Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The employer will be The RJAH Orthopaedic Hospital NHSFT and the postholder will be involved in provision of services to Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (Wrexham Maelor Hospital) through a service level agreement.