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    Locum Consultant Paediatric Surgeon - Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom - The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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    Job summary

    We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team.

    You will join a team of 8 existing Consultant Paediatric Surgeons in providing comprehensive tertiary paediatric surgical services to the Northern Region. On-call and emergency cover will be shared with colleagues (1:8). The post is mainly to fulfil the Trust objectives of greater than 95% theatre utilization by working flexibly to pick up lists and clinics which become available due to other surgeons being on-call or leave. Additionally, the post will offer the individual to develop an interest in lower gastro-intestinal surgery and providing venous access service. We wish to appoint a surgeon with experience of minimally invasive techniques. The appointee will also be required to provide an outreach clinic and theatre list on a fortnightly basis.

    This is a fixed term 6 month post.

    In addition to the challenges of the role, we can offer you a commitment to teaching, education, research and audit.

    Candidates for the post must be registered medical practitioners and on, or eligible to join, the Specialist Register within six months of the date of the Appointments Committee.

    Please read attached job description and person specification.

    Main duties of the job

    This post is based in the Department of Paediatric Surgery in the Great North Children's Hospital, which provides Specialist Paediatric Surgical services to the Northern Region.

    For an informal discussion and further information, please contact: Dr Jason Gane, Clinical Director of Children's Services, on or Mr Anupam Lall, Head of Department for Paediatric Surgery, on or at .

    About us

    Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

    We're also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

    Our staff oversee around million patients 'contacts' each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

    We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people's race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

    Job description

    Job responsibilities

    Clinical: Based at the Great North Childrens Hospital on the Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI) site, the appointee will join eight other Consultant Paediatric Surgeons in providing a comprehensive specialist surgical service for the Northern region and the northern sector of the Northern & Yorkshire Region.

    The post is mainly to cover the extra lists to clear long waiters and see new and old patients in clinic to meet the 18 week target. The post is also to ease the burden of on-call on the existing surgeons. It is envisaged that the successful candidate will contribute to the separate TOF/ Oesophageal atresia rota, Adequate support will be provided to meet this aspect of the job plan. The successful candidate will be responsible for an outreach clinic and theatre list in the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough, running one day every other week. This responsibility will be shared with existing consultants.

    We expect the successful candidate to develop a specialist interest in children with congenital and acquired diseases affecting the lower gastro-intestinal tract and help with deliver Venous access service provision. The successful candidate will have a strong exposure and commitment to minimally invasive techniques.

    She or he should be able to demonstrate outcomes comparable to international best standards in this area of surgery. She or he should be familiar with evidence-based practice and be enthusiastic about objective analysis of surgical outcomes.

    Emergency on-call duties, intended to be based on a 1 in 8 rota and will be shared with the other seven Consultants. This will include providing shared cover for dedicated paediatric emergency lists in the Great North Childrens Hospital.

    Please read attached job description and person specification for further information.

    Person Specification

    Education, Qualifications and Specialist Skills

    Essential

  • MBBS or other recognised equivalent medical qualification
  • MRCS or equivalent post graduate surgical qualification
  • FRCS (Paed) or equivalent
  • Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register, (or for UK trainees entry expected within 6 months from the date of the AAC)
  • Desirable

  • Higher Degree
  • Leadership and training experience
  • Clinical Experience

    Essential

  • Ability to offer a clinical opinion on a range of problems, both emergency and elective, commensurate with a consultant role
  • Ability to take full and independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients
  • To be able to provide on call cover
  • Able to manage both congenital and acquired diseases of the childhood
  • Willingness to work collaboratively in seeking optimal outcomes for children
  • Desirable

  • Evidence of experience in minimally invasive surgery for children
  • Management and Administration Experience

    Essential

  • Able to run a service and participate in the management process
  • Able to organise and manage out-patient priorities, surgical waiting lists and operating lists
  • Ability to manage and lead surgical 'firm'. Involvement with management and project leadership within the specialty
  • Evidence of involvement in authoring or reviewing clinical guidelines
  • An understanding of Clinical Governance
  • Desirable

  • Proven management and administrative experience and understanding of management goals
  • Evidence of leadership / project management
  • Evidence of having implemented change
  • Teaching

    Essential

  • Experience of supervising junior medical staff
  • Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
  • Ability to teach clinical / technical / practical skills
  • Has been responsible for educational courses
  • Desirable

  • Attendance at courses to develop teaching skills
  • Postgraduate qualification in medical education
  • Research

    Essential

  • Evidence of involvement in and understanding of research methodology and publication of findings
  • Research/critical review of literature
  • Publications in the last five years
  • Desirable

  • Higher degree
  • Recent publications in peer reviewed journal appropriate to this specialty
  • Audit

    Essential

  • Evidence of participation in audit
  • Desirable

  • Evidence of having changed practice as a result of audit
  • Evidence of having revisited the audit to assess improvement
  • Personal Attributes

    Essential

  • Alignment with the Trust's values
  • Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development
  • Committed to share in professional, managerial and teaching responsibilities necessary to fulfil the obligations of the Directorate to the Trust and its workforce
  • A commitment to personal / unit CPD
  • Ability and willingness to work the on-call rota
  • Ability and willingness to work a more flexible pattern of working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work

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