Consultant Paediatric General Surgeon

This is a substantive post following expansion of the department in converting a locum post to a substantive one. The post will be to join the 7 substantive paediatric surgical consultants on a permanent basis. The post will comprise elective and acute general paediatric surgery and one of the group of surgeons providing the paediatric general and gastrointestinal elective service. The post holder will ideally have consultant experience as a substantive paediatric general surgeon to enable succession planning at this Tertiary surgical centre and facilitate the acute work. They will provide day to day all round surgical care to patients of the Royal Alexandra Children's Hospital, including participation in a 1 in 6 week attending and on call rota, and participation in the outreach clinic/theatre rota. (see further details in duties of the posts later)