Locum Consultant in Paediatric Surgery

The post-holder will be a Paediatric Surgeon with a CCT or within 6 months of completion of CCT. The role requires the ability to manage an acute neonatal and general paediatric surgical take, including a substantial quantity of paediatric trauma. The Post holder will be expected to support and develop the service which consists of neonatal surgery, acute and elective paediatric surgery The post holder will join a team of 7 Paediatric surgeons based at the Royal London hospital, of which 3 have an interest in Paediatric Urology. Consultants cover outreach work at Homerton hospital, Whipps Cross Hospital and Queen's hospital Romford. New Appointee will undertake 2 sessions of paediatric Surgery operating list and one Paediatric Surgery outpatient session alternate week, both new and follow-up cases and provide training during some of these clinics to their junior doctors and teaching to medical students.

Provide a high-quality consultant-led paediatric surgical service Undertake paediatric surgery operating lists and outpatient clinics Participate in the general paediatric surgical on-call rota on a 1:6 basis, including prospective cover for colleagues Support the management of paediatric trauma admissions and contribute to trauma MDT working Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary colleagues across children's services and partner sites Contribute to the teaching, training and supervision of junior doctors, medical students and nursing staff Participate fully in clinical governance, audit, quality improvement and service development