Locum Consultant in Paediatric Spinal

Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; Sur place; GBP 90 000 - 110 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a full-time locum Paediatric Spinal Consultant to work within the Evelina London Children's Healthcare and ELCH CSTA Directorate. The role focuses on elective paediatric spinal care for children across a broad range of deformities managed by a large, experienced multidisciplinary team.

The post holder will contribute to regional service development in collaboration with GSTT colleagues, delivering high-quality surgical care to children with

Qualifications

• Locum Paediatric Spinal Consultant with experience in elective spinal care for children.
• Experience in managing paediatric spinal deformities across congenital to neuromuscular etiologies.

Responsabilités

• Work with multidisciplinary teams in the Paediatric setting to develop spinal service in the region.
• Provide optimal surgical care to children with complex spinal problems and comorbidities.

Connaissances

Paediatric spine surgery

Description du poste

The successful candidate would work with the multidisciplinary teams in the Paediatric setting to develop services within the region. The post holder would be joining a large paediatric spine service of 5 consultants performing 145 to 180 paediatric spinal deformity operations a year.

The ELCH Children's Surgery, Theatres and Anaesthesia (CSTA) Directorate is seeking a full-time locum Paediatric Spinal Consultant proficient in the management of children with elective spinal needs. They will work with an experienced and supportive multidisciplinary team within the Evelina to provide optimal surgical care to children who may have complex spinal problems and complex comorbidities. The consultant would be expected to have experience in the management for all aetiologies of paediatric spinal deformities covering congenital, neuromuscular/syndromic, osteochondrodytrophies, mesenchymal disorders, NF, and spondylolysis and spondylolisthesis and spondylolysis and spondylolisthesis.

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT) is made up of two of London's best known teaching hospitals. It employs over 17,500 staff with over 1 million patient contacts a year.

Evelina London Children's Healthcare (ELCH) provides services for children both in our state of the art hospital, and in our community services within Lambeth and Southwark. We have an annual turnover of £170 million and over 2,000 staff. Last year children's services at GSTT delivered 125,000 outpatient appointments, and 26,000 children were cared for as inpatients in the children's hospital.

ELCH is the second largest provider of acute hospital care for children in London. We provide secondary-level children's hospital services to the local communities of Lambeth and Southwark, and a wide-ranging portfolio of tertiary-level services to South London and South East England. ELCH is proud to provide quaternary-level care in a number of fields to children across the UK.