Locum Consultant Paediatric Surgeon

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.

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 present team of 8 existing Consultant Paediatric Surgeons in providing comprehensive tertiary Paediatric surgical services to the Northern Region. The On-call and Emergency cover will be shared with colleagues with a frequency of 1:8. The post is mainly to fulfil the Trust objectives of greater than 95% theatre utilization by working flexibly to pick up lists which become available due to on-call commitments or leave. Additionally, the post will offer the individual to develop an interest in the subspecialty but would be mainly to cover the gap in service arising due to leave. (Gastro-intestinal surgery and providing venous access service). We wish to appoint a surgeon who is comfortable and has experience of minimally invasive techniques. The appointee will also be required to provide an outreach clinic and theatre list on a fortnightly basis.

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 1.84 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.