Locum Consultant Paediatric Urologist

Alder Hey Children's Nhs Foundation Trust; Liverpool; Sur place; GBP 90 000 - 120 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a full-time Consultant in Paediatric Surgery with a special interest in Paediatric Urology to join the established team. You will provide outpatient and inpatient care at Alder Hey, and also deliver services at partner hospitals.

The role supports an on-call rota and aligns with the Department of Paediatric Surgery. The post includes 10 PA's (8.5 direct clinical care) and a rota structure with on-call commitments, with a planned permanent

Qualifications

• Experience in paediatric surgical practice.
• Special interest in paediatric urology preferred.
• Experience with on-call commitments and multi-site collaboration.

Responsabilités

• Provide outpatient and inpatient paediatric surgical services.
• Work alongside the current consultant team at Alder Hey and partner hospitals.
• Support busy on-call paediatric surgery/trauma/neonatal surgery rota.

Connaissances

Paediatric surgery

Paediatric urology

On-call experience

Description du poste

We require a full-time 10PA Consultant in Paediatric Surgery with a special interest in Paediatric Urology. The successful applicant with work alongside the current consultant team to provide outpatient and inpatient services at Alder Hey. They will also be expected to provide services at one or more partner hospitals. The role is initially to provide Consultant Paediatric Urology cover for a consultant career break and then from April 2026 a permanent reduction in hours. There will also be a requirement to support the busy Paediatric Surgery/Trauma/Neonatal Surgery on call team from April 2026., The successful applicant will primarily work within the specialist Paediatric Urology team joining an established service of 3 paediatric urologists, an associate specialty doctor and large team of paediatric urology nurses. The Paediatric Urology team operates with the Department of Paediatric Surgery at Alder Hey.

The posts offer 10 PA's which consist of 8.5 direct clinical care PA's including specific PA's for on call commitments in General Paediatric Surgery and Urology at Alder Hey Hospital. The paediatric surgery rota is currently a 1 in 10 rota and the Urology rota is a 1 in 4 telephone advice rota, with occasional requirement on site out of hours. PA's are awarded for SPA and admin, respectively.

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.