Locum Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare trust in Greater London is recruiting a locum Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine for their busy Paediatric Emergency Department. The role includes direct patient care, clinical leadership, and educational supervision. Applicants should have subspecialty training in Paediatric Emergency Medicine and demonstrate strong communication and leadership skills. The position offers career development opportunities and a commitment to enhancing staff work-life balance. Unique benefits include flexible working options and support for innovative projects.

Benefits

Career development

Flexible working

Staff recognition scheme

Wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Must possess subspecialty training in Paediatric Emergency Medicine.
• Experience in managing high-pressure situations in a busy emergency department is essential.
• Strong leadership qualities and effective teamwork skills are required.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality care to children in emergency situations.
• Teach and training staff, including resident doctors and undergraduate students.
• Support research activities and help implement new evidence-based practices.
• Supervise and mentor resident doctors.
• Ensure high performance in clinical efficiency and quality care.

Skills

Paediatric Emergency Medicine

Clinical Leadership

Teaching and Training

Research Support

Excellent Communication

Education

Subspecialty training in Paediatric Emergency Medicine

Job description

We are recruiting a locum Consultant (7.5 PAs) to work in our Paediatric Emergency Department at St Mary’s Hospital.

We are a dedicated paediatric ED with approximately 30,000 attendances a year of children and young people up to 16 years of age. We are the Major Trauma Centre for North West London. We have an on‑site PICU, and support from medical and surgical specialties across Imperial College Healthcare NHS trust and West London Children’s Hospital. We run a busy co‑located 4 bedded Paediatric CDU, and we have a co‑located Urgent Treatment Centre.

We are an academic and teaching hospital, with strong research links to Imperial College for both paediatrics and trauma, and multiple active projects ongoing. We host medical students on paediatric, ED and elective placements. We have a culture of innovation and improvement. Wehave clinical fellows in Paediatric Trauma and in Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) with expertise in these areas within the consultant body.

We are looking for a consultant with subspecialty training in Paediatric Emergency Medicine to work as part of our team of 10 consultants. Key qualities include the ability to manage the various pressures within a busy emergency department, an enthusiasm to work well with people and a desire to help maintain a culture of learning and improvement in everyday practice.

This clinical post will provide direct patient care, clinical leadership and support for the medical and nursing staff, ensuring the safety of patients and the delivery of high‑quality emergency care in an effective and efficient manner. The post holder will lead paediatric major trauma teams, work closely with the nursing team to maintain a safe department and to ensure appropriate flow. The post holder will develop good working relationships with the general paediatric and specialist teams. Consultants are “on the shop floor” until 10 pm every day (including weekends) on a 1:8 basis.

Post‑holders would be expected to contribute to the teaching opportunities both within the department (undergraduates, resident doctors and nursing staff), and across the trust (for example FY training, RCEM training, APLS etc), including formal and informal teaching sessions, and work place‑based assessments. The post‑holder will provide educational supervision to relevant resident doctors.

We have embedded a culture of innovation and improvement within the department, and we would expect consultants to actively participate, and support trainees and nursing staff with their own projects. Consultants are also expected to support the extensive research activity within the department.

The consultant body is responsible for the quality of care and the safety of our patients, and is heavily involved in the governance processes, safeguarding processes and safety work within the department.

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values – expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Key Areas of Responsibilities

• Provide High Quality Care to children and young people who present as an emergency, both in direct clinical care, and in supporting the resident doctors, nurses and other specialty teams in their management.
• Provide Teaching and Training to all members of the MDT within the department, for specialist teams who manage patients in the ED, for the wider medical and nursing teams within the trust who may deal with children, and to the undergraduate students in their paediatric learning.
• Provide support for the research activity within the ED, and help translate new evidence into practice.
• Provide educational supervision for resident doctors to enable their development.
• To work with medical, nursing and managerial colleagues to ensure high performance in clinical efficiency, quality care, financial management and operational efficiency.
• To help manage the staff within the department, including ensuring compliance of resident medical team rotas, ensuring adequate safe staffing, and engaging with regular job planning and regular appraisal.
• To help review clinical outcomes, participate in incident reporting and safety reviews (using the PSIRF framework), responding to complaints and ensuring guidelines and protocols are up to date and adhered to.
• To demonstrate excellent leadership skills, trust values, collaboration with colleagues, role model exemplary behaviour and attitudes, and to help resolve conflict and difficult situations through negotiation and discussion.

This advert closes on Monday 22 Dec 2025