Locum Consultant General/Community Paediatrics NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Job overview

We are currently looking to recruit a Locum Consultant Paediatrician at Epsom General Hospital, Epsom, Surrey, to help deliver our service in the north of Surrey. The post is a fixed term contract to cover maternity leave. The post will be based at Epsom General Hospital. While the main base for this post will be Epsom Hospital, the post holder may be required to work at other sites as required. Epsom Hospital has an integrated paediatric service with acute and community paediatrics on the same site.

The successful applicant will take part in the acute paediatric service, including consultant of the week attending on the wards, and taking part in the on-call rota. The post holder will deliver general & community paediatric clinics.

The successful applicant will play a crucial role in ensuring the team continues to deliver a high quality paediatric service.

As an organisation we are committed to develop our services in a collaborative manner with the local authorities, in ways that best suit the needs of our patients.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will join a team of 16 Paediatric Consultants and 1 Associate Specialist. There are also 9 middle grade and 9 junior doctors on the paediatric rotas covering ED, the inpatient ward, the day-case ward and SCBU, in addition to Clinical Nurse Specialists for Epilepsy, Asthma, Allergy, Oncology and Diabetes

Routine educational activities include weekly junior doctor teaching programme in addition to Quality meetings, Child Protection Peer review and Mortality & Morbidity meetings run as part of the monthly programme. There will be opportunities for teaching and training.

For any queries, please contact Dr Stephanie Kirk or Dr Kirsty Watts on 6920 at Epsom General Hospital, Epsom, Surrey.

Working for our organisation

St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George’s Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary’s Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).

After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.

Person specification

Experience working in General Paediatrics

Essential criteria

• 1 years experience

Desirable criteria

• 5 years experience

Experience of Community Paediatrics

Essential criteria

• 1 years experience

Desirable criteria

• 5 years experience

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