Locum Consultant Paediatrician Neurodevelopment & Eplilepsy

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Paediatric service hosted by Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and be part of the dynamic team providing the service to meet rising demand across the specialist teams within Epilepsy, Community Paediatrics including Neurodevelopmental Paediatrics. The successful candidate will be clinically active in both Community Paediatric service and Acute Paediatric services. The post holder will be the fourth clinician joining the Paediatric epilepsy service. Currently we have three consultant Paediatricians offering four epilepsy specific clinics per week. There are three Epilepsy specialist nurses in the team. The Paediatric Neurology team at Leeds provide the tertiary neurology support. The post holder will also be clinically active in the Community Paediatric service and contribute to 50% of Acute Paediatric on call commitments and Consultant of the Week responsibility., The timetable is flexible and can be modified to reflect the special interests and expertise of the appointee.

Each Job Plan will be allocated a standard SPA time of 1.5 PAs. Any additional SPA time for additional responsibilities will be subject to agreement with the Clinical Director.

This post is for 10 programmed activities. An indicative Job Plan is enclosed but this may change in due course according to organisation vision, responsibilities and population needs. The job plan will be reviewed 6 months after the start of the post to ensure that the PAs offered are appropriate for meeting the responsibilities of the post.

The post holder will be expected to contribute to undergraduate and post graduate training and teaching of junior doctors and other health professionals as appropriate

The post holder will be expected to be actively involved in service delivery and planning, educational supervision, audit and research activities within the health group.

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.