Job overview

Consultant Paediatrician

Division: Women, Children and Young People

Care Group: Children and Young People

Salary: £109,725 - £145,478 Per Annum/Pro Rata

We are recruiting for a Consultant Paediatrician who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the  Best of Care by the Best People  and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

*One of your referees should be the Medical Director / Chief Medical Officer of your most recent NHS employer (or their nominated deputy), or equivalent for applicants from outside of the NHS. 

For applicants from outside of the NHS, referees to validate a period of three consecutive years of employment.

For internal candidates, your referees should be your Clinical Director and Clinical Lead. 

For applicants who are still in a training post, or have completed training within the past year and have not worked in a non-training NHS role since then, a reference from EACH of your two most recent Educational Supervisors.

Main duties of the job

This post replaces a retiring consultant and is intended to support continuity of paediatric gastroenterology services; however, applicants with other complementary subspecialty interests (including neurology, cardiology or epilepsy) are encouraged to apply where this strengthens the overall skill mix of the department.

This a 10 PA role where the successful applicant will play a crucial role in supoorting current Paediatric consultant workforce  team to continue to deliver a high standard of care.

The appointee will take part in the consultant on-call rota prospective cover (1:12 weekends, 1:12 Consultant of the week, 1:12 week day overnight non-resident on call.) On-call is non-­ resident with expectation of coming in to the hospital site within 30 minutes if required outside of the periods of peak activity. All rostered presence on site is included in job planning at 3hours per PA for unsocial hours. Annual leave and study leave is granted with expectation that the Consultant swaps duties (on the on-call rota) consistent with NHS job planning guidance.

The post holder will be accountable to the Clinical Director for the Children and Young People Care Group.

Working for our organisation

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved.  Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.

The NHS are striving towards “we work flexibly” as a workforce, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and importantly for you. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.

We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under – represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.

All staff at Medway comply the Trust’s and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board’s policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.