Senior Fellow in Paediatric Obesity: Sponsorship Available

University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust

Job summary

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.

Job Title: Senior Fellow in Paediatric Obesity

Start Date: November 2026

Contract Type:Fixed term

Duration: 12 months

Purpose for Fixed Term: Training Contract

This post is appointed on a fixed-term basis for the primary purpose of providing structured training and supervised clinical development. While the postholder will contribute to service delivery, the overarching purpose of the post is to provide defined educational opportunities, supervised clinical practice, and experience aligned to the relevant specialty training curriculum

Further details about the role can be found in the job description below.

Main duties of the job

Attached you will find the person specification document which provides more detail about the essential and desirable skills and experience needed for this role. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.

For an overview of the main duties of the role please see the ‘Job Description and Main Responsibilities’ section below. To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail please read the full job description document attached.

Person Specification

Qualifications, Training & Experience

Essential

  • MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
  • GMC registration with a licence to practise
  • Appropriate knowledge base, and ability to apply sound clinical judgement to problems
  • MRCPCH membership examinations
  • ST4 level or above (post CCT or equivalent applicants welcome)
  • Level 3 safeguarding qualification
  • Experience in managing children with chronic diseases

Desirable

  • MSC/ PhD
  • Experience in paediatric endocrinology
  • Experience in paediatric diabetes
  • Previous completion of quality improvement projects
  • Experience in safeguarding
  • Experience in community paediatrics
  • Experience managing children with obesity/ type 2 diabetes
  • Experience in facilitating change
  • Experience working within a managed clinical network

Aptitudes and skills

Essential

  • Evidence and ability to work effectively in multi-professional teams
  • Experience in writing clinical guidelines
  • Understanding of equality and diversity and how this affects patients, visitors and staff
  • Evidence and ability to communicate and liaise effectively with patients and colleagues (verbal and written communication skills in English)
  • Evidence of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
  • Understanding of common general paediatric presentations as expected for a level 3 paediatric trainee
  • An understanding of the socioeconomic factors associated with childhood obesity and medical complications of obesity

Desirable

  • Teaching experience
  • Leadership training
  • Been involved in QI projects
  • Experience conducting clinic research or writing posters and papers
  • Management skills/ other positions of responsibility
  • Ability to take a focussed clinical history and perform a relevant clinical examination in a child who is overweight or obese

Living Trust Values

Essential

  • Patients First
  • Always Improving
  • Working Together

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 27 September 2026

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