Home, community, hospital

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.

Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.

We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.

Our Trust values

These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.

Job overview

Resident Consultant Paediatrician                                                              

Full Time 10PAs 

Applications are invited for the post of Resident Consultant Paediatrician and the option of additional subspeciality interest in other areas.

This is a substantive full-time post (10PAs). Part time/job share option will be considered on request. We are looking for innovative and enthusiastic Consultant Paediatrician to join our Paediatric Department with experience in level 2 Neonates to join our Paediatric team at Kingston Hospital. Kingston Hospital has an overall CQC rating of Outstanding and we are committed to continue this provision of excellent care by attracting the highest quality candidates to join our team.

Main duties of the job

You will be joining a team providing consultant led care in a busy DGH with a substantial NNU. The post enables the provision of consultant led care and supervision for junior and nursing staff 24 hours per day 7 days a week; providing excellent paediatric care in line with the London Quality Standards. The post has a 6-week rolling rota with 6 participating resident consultants. You will work 7 nights in 6 weeks with the remainder of your clinical time spent in outpatient clinics or attending on the Paediatric Ambulatory Unit or the level 2 NNU. The current rota design means that there are 2 weeks off within every 6-week block.

Working for our organisation

Kingston Hospital and Surrounding Area

Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is situated in a beautiful part of the country – close to London yet surrounded by royal parks, historic buildings, and the River Thames. The Hospital is based about 12 miles from the centre of London with good transport links into the capital. Further information may be found on the hospital website at www.kingstonhospital.nhs.uk

We are located on a single site in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey and run several outpatient clinics in neighbouring areas including Raynes Park Health Centre and Teddington Memorial Hospital.

Kingston Hospital is a 520 bedded District General Hospital serving a population of 320,000 in Southwest London and Surrey. We employ 3,300+ staff who proudly and efficiently support our local population through a full range of diagnostic and treatment services. We have a national reputation for innovative developments in healthcare.

We are proud of our reputation as the largest single site District General Hospital in London and our Maternity Unit as the second biggest in London. We were the first acute Trust in Southwest London to gain Foundation Trust status when we were authorised in May 2013. We were the first acute Trust in London to be rated Outstanding by CQC for Overall Quality and Leadership