Locum Consultant Paediatrician: Sponsorship Available

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join a forward-thinking team of consultant paediatricians within Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust.

We are seeking a General Paediatrician to play a key role in continuing to deliver our acute paediatric and neonatal services. There is also a new exciting role within our National Spinal Injuries Unit to work closely as their paediatric liaison.

The main purpose of this role will be to provide paediatric perspective for this group of children that are attending for rehabilitation purposes both as inpatients and outpatients. The consultant will provide general paediatric input to children and young people, including weekly ward reviews, MDT participation and high-quality clinical documentation, working collaboratively with the specialist spinal rehabilitation team.

Applications are welcome from those with special interest (s) in spinal injuries or neurological rehabilitation, but this is not essential to the role.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will join a team of consultants to undertake inpatient and outpatient work in Neonates and General Paediatrics including inpatient ward attending weeks, observation ward attending and on call activities on a pro-rata basis.

Outpatiento There will be 1 General Paediatric clinics every week across Stoke Mandeville and Wycombe Hospitals ensuring local access for patient-o Attending 1 spinal MDT clinic / week

On callo The role will involve Paediatrician of the week (POW) and Neonatologist of the week (NOW) totalling 7 a year.o There will also be attending weeks for the Children’s Observation Unit (COU) within the Children’s Emergency Department (CED)1.67 weeks / year. During these days s/he will have no other clinical commitment.

o The post holder will have resident duties on a fixed weekday evening working “Twilight” shifts from 16:00-22:00 hours within the Children’s Emergency Department. There will be a weekend twilight shift to cover the Friday to Sunday evenings for 3 weekends a year to ensure that college standards for Facing the Future are fully met.

Person Specification

Qualifications/Registration

Essential

  • MRCPCH or equivalent
  • Full registration with the General Medical Council. Licence to practice MB, ChB or equivalent
  • On GMC specialist register or within 6 months of receipt of CCT in Paediatrics at time of interview

Desirable

  • Higher Post graduate degree
  • Formal Qualification in Medical Education

Experience/Training

Essential

  • MB, ChB or equivalent
  • Registration on RCPCH CPD programme
  • Level 3 Child protection training.
  • Current APLS and NLS provider status (2 for each)
  • Have clinical experience of assessing and examining children and young people as appropriate to the role to include safeguarding
  • Extensive knowledge of neonatal and general paediatrics

Desirable

  • APLS / NLS Instructor (1 for each)

Clinical and Technical skills

Essential

  • Ability to diagnose and manage wide variety of illness in children.
  • Ability to make good medical notes

Clinical Governance

Essential

  • Evidence of participation in clinical audit and understanding role of audit in improving clinical practice.
  • Comprehension of core philosophy and building blocks of clinical governance

Desirable

  • Knowledge of risk management

Leading and Managing

Essential

  • Drives up standards
  • Will follow as well as lead
  • Is clear and explicit about standards expected
  • Is Visible
  • Shows humility
  • Delegates appropriately
  • Adapts leadership style to situation
  • Clear about direction of travel
  • Encourages others to question and challenge
  • keeps others on board
  • Deals with performance issues fairly but clearly

Communication & Influencing

Essential

  • Listens and acts on what s/he hears
  • Influences and negotiates effectively
  • Accepts others views
  • Confident without being arrogant
  • Uses power appropriately

Team Working

Essential

  • Helps team learn from others
  • Develops others
  • Shows loyalty to the team
  • Is inclusive
  • Supports and cares about the team
  • Co-operates with other teams

Values

Essential

  • Communicates openly, honestly and professionally, and actively promotes team working and building strong working relationships
  • Patients are always first. Drives service improvements. Strong self-awareness with a desire to grow.
  • Treats all with compassion and kindness. Ensures everyone feels valued
  • Consults others and listens to their views/opinions. Enables others to take the initiative

Desirable

  • car driver

Ability, Skills and Knowledge

Essential

  • Understands patients
  • Shows concern for individuals
  • Recognises work life balance
  • Willing to apologise
  • Approachable

Desirable

  • Proven undergraduate teaching skills

Transport

Essential

  • Ability to provide own transport between sites

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: 15 October 2026

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