Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to join a committed and supportive Children’s Services team within the Women’s and Children’s Division. Our paediatric services provide care for children, young people and families across mid-Nottinghamshire, working with acute, neonatal, community and system partners to deliver safe, responsive and compassionate care.
We are seeking a consultant who shares our values and will bring clinical expertise, leadership and a commitment to improving outcomes for children and young people. The successful candidate will support high-quality general paediatric care, contribute to service development, strengthen patient flow and work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team.
The role also supports development of our paediatric respiratory pathwayand we welcome applications from candidates with a specialist interest or experience in paediatric respiratory medicine.
At Sherwood Forest Hospitals, we value kindness, respect and teamwork. We support consultants to develop their interests while contributing to leadership, teaching, governance and quality improvement activities.
This pack provides further details of the role, responsibilities and person specification. We hope it gives a clear sense of the opportunity and the contribution you could make. We welcome applications from candidates who are passionate about general paediatrics, committed to collaborative working and keen to help us continue improving care for our local communities.
Main duties of the job
o Provide a comprehensive general paediatric service across inpatient, ambulatory, outpatient and emergency care settings.
o Participate in the consultant on-call rota, including out-of-hours, weekend and acute paediatric/neonatal hot week cover.
o Support the development of paediatric respiratory services, including outpatient activity, pathway development and quality improvement.
o Work collaboratively with paediatric, neonatal, emergency department, community and multidisciplinary colleagues to deliver high-quality care.
o Provide clinical leadership, supporting patient flow, escalation, discharge planning and service improvement.
o Contribute to governance activities including audit, incident review, complaints management, risk management and quality improvement.
o Supervise and support junior medical staff and promote safe clinical practice.
o Participate in teaching, training, supervision and educational activities for undergraduate and postgraduate learners.
o Maintain appraisal, revalidation, continuing professional development and job planning requirements.
o Comply with Trust policies and GMC Good Medical Practice standards.
o Promote safeguarding, infection prevention, health and safety, equality, diversity and inclusion.
o Undertake additional duties appropriate to the role, including responsibilities linked to a specialist interest in paediatric respiratory care.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Full registration (and with a licence to practise) with the General Medical Council (GMC)
- Specialist registration with the General Medical Council (GMC)
- MRCP, MRCPCH by examination or equivalent
- CCT in general paediatrics
Desirable
- Higher degree e.g. MSc, MD or other higher degree
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of appropriate competencies and experience to fulfil the duties of the post
- At least 2 years general professional training in paediatrics
- Usually 5 years Higher Specialist Training
- Training is now competency based, but a certain level of experience is still expected: see ‘Subspecialty training requirements’ document here: http://www.rcpch.ac.uk/trainingexaminationsprofessionaldevelopment/paediatric-careersandrecruitment/paediatric-recru-0
- Broad experience of all clinical aspects of acute paediatrics
- Ability to maintain clinical credibility and authority with a multi-professional team including senior trainees
Desirable
- SPIN
Management & administrative experience
Essential
- Ability to effectively organise and manage clinical workload
- Experience of partnership working across other agencies (Social Services, Education)
Teaching
Essential
- Ability to teach undergraduate medical students in outpatient clinics, wards and other teaching methods
- Support, teach and assess postgraduate paediatric trainees
Desirable
- Demonstrable ability as a teacher with evidence of training for the role
Research
Essential
- Ability to convert research evidence into clinical practice
Desirable
- Participation in clinical research trials
- Publications in peer-reviewed journals
Other
Essential
- Communication skills – to have language competency and communication skills necessary to do the job safely & competently
- Ability to communicate effectively with team members, patients, relatives, GPs, nurses and other agencies
- Commitment to Continuing Medical Education and the requirements of Clinical Governance and Audit
Closing Date: 7 October 2026
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