Consultant in Paediatric RHeumatology - Glasgow, United Kingdom - NHS Scotland

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3 weeks ago

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Applications are invited for a whole time permanent post of Consultant in Paediatric Rheumatology. This is a replacement post for a Consultant colleague who is planning to retire in autumn 2023.


This post is to support the Paediatric Rheumatology service based at the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow with a commitment to support other services working within the Scottish Paediatric and Adolescent Rheumatology Network (SPARN).


The appointee will work closely within the Paediatric Rheumatology team in Glasgow to deliver the Paediatric Rheumatology service in NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde(GGC), and as a team of five Paediatric Rheumatology Consultants (4 NHS and 1 Senior Lecturer in Paediatric Rheumatology) working within SPARN.

This team supports Paediatric Rheumatology Services around Scotland, with tertiary services in Glasgow and Edinburgh and network clinics in all health board areas of Scotland.

The Post will be based at the new Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow.

The Childrens' hospital, with a separate identity and entrance, is adjoined to the adult hospital on the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus.

In 2015 it replaced the former Royal Hospital for Sick Children located in Yorkhill. The children's hospital features 244 paediatric beds with a further 12 neonatal beds in the maternity unit next door. The vast majority of the paediatric beds are in single rooms with space for overnight accommodation for parents.

It is the largest children's hospital in Scotland and provides a wide range of clinical services to the local population of Glasgow in addition to fulfilling regional and national functions.

There is a 20-bedded paediatric intensive care unit with high dependency level beds and PICU patient retrieval service.

The hospital also features a Medicinema, Science Centre interactive activity walls funded by the Yorkhill Children's Charity, indoor and outdoor play areas and a roof garden.


All paediatric medical and surgical subspecialties are represented, including general medical paediatrics, respiratory, endocrinology, gastroenterology and nutrition, haemato-oncology and bone marrow transplantation, cardiology and cardiac surgery, neonatology, nephrology and renal transplantation, immunology and infectious disease, dermatology, rheumatology, metabolic medicine, audiology, ophthalmology, ENT surgery, orthopaedics and general paediatric and neonatal surgery.

The hospital also provides national services for ECMO, paediatric cardiac surgery and renal transplantation.


The Hospital includes The Duncan Guthrie Institute for Medical Genetics and has excellent Diagnostic Imaging, Pathology, Biochemistry and other Laboratory Medicine Services.

Hospital paediatrics is closely integrated with the community child health programme. There are many links with the major adult medicine and surgery units within the city.


All newly qualified Consultants are initially offered a minimum of 1 Core Supporting Professional Activity (SPA) which includes CPD, audit, clinical governance, appraisal, revalidation, job planning and management meetings.

This will be reviewed within 6 months (or earlier if required) of appointment and revised upwards if additional responsibilities are agreed.

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