Consultant Paediatrician - Interest in Neurology & Epilepsy

Walsall Healthcare Trust has an exciting opportunity to appoint a Consultant Paediatrician with experience and expertise in paediatric neurology and epilepsy. The appointee will work within the Department of Paediatrics and Neonates at Manor Hospital, Walsall in a substantive capacity. This is to augment the current team in order to manage the increasing general paediatric, paediatric neurology and epilepsy work in the department.

The successful candidate will join an established team of committed paediatricians who work together to plan and deliver an excellent quality of care to the children and young people of Walsall borough.

The Department of Paediatrics works on a Paediatric Consultant of the Week (PCOW) system that provides dedicated consultant cover for the paediatric in-patient and the paediatric day case ward.

Since 2019 we had a dedicated day time consultant cover for PAU (PCOW2) during winter months and since April 2023 this has been extended to throughout the year following the relocation of the Paediatric Assessment Unit to the front door Urgent and Emergency Care Centre (UECC). The out of hours tier 3 level on-call cover is shared among the consultants participating in the general paediatrics on-call rota., Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust is an integrated Trust and the only provider of NHS acute care in Walsall, serving a population of 286,700, providing inpatient and outpatient services at the Manor Hospital as well as a wide range of services in the community. Walsall Manor Hospital houses the full range of district general hospital services under one roof. The £170 million development of our Pleck Road site was completed in 2010 and the continued upgrading of existing areas ensures the Trust now has a state-of-the-art Critical Care Unit, Neonatal Unit, Obstetric Theatre, and Integrated Assessment Unit facilities, and the new Urgent and Emergency Care Centre opened in early 2023.

We would particularly welcome applications from people from a Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic background and from people with a disability; these groups are currently under-represented at senior level, we value diversity within our Trust and are working to achieve equality in our recruitment.

We support a range of flexible working for all employees and prospective applicants. The Trust works collaboratively with Black Country and West Birmingham Integrated Care Systems. Our objective is to support ongoing flexible working across the partnership and transforming our workforce so that it is flexible and consistent as we redesign services for our integrated future.