Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatric Medicine
- Grade
- YC73
- Contract
- Locum: 12 months
- Hours
- Part time - 5 sessions per week (N/A)
- Job ref
- 392-MS015-LocumPaedsCons
- Employer
- Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Locum Paediatric Consultant
YC73
Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust.
The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a global leader in our field. We provide a dynamic working environment where we support frontline staff to implement improvements so that we can realise our vision of being a world leading neuro musculoskeletal hospital providing the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS, delivering world leading research, and offering a strong foundation of education, training and career progression. Our dedicated staff come from diverse backgrounds, and our patients benefit from the wide range of experience they bring to the Trust. The RNOH brings unrivalled expertise together in one place allowing us to deliver some of the world’s most complex and innovative care to our patients
- Rated Good by the CQC
- Two sites, one in central London and one in Stanmore - which has recently opened The Stanmore Building, a new, state-of-the-art inpatient facility
- Our Research and Innovation Centre works closely with our main academic partner, University College London
- Recognised as a centre of excellence, leading on national initiatives, such as the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) Programme
- Further major redevelopment underway across the Stanmore site – improving and modernising our facilities to maintain our position as the UK’s leading centre for orthopaedic medicine
- In the NHS staff survey, over 90% of our staff were satisfied with the quality of care they are able to give to patients - the best result of any NHS Trust in the country
- Our staff also indicated that they had the best experience of appraisals as compared to all other NHS Trusts.
This is a great time to join us and play a critical role in the next stage of RNOH’s journey to achieving an outstanding CQC rating.
Our aim is to remain a world-leading orthopaedic hospital with the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS. To do this, we have four core values that underpin everything that we do. We use our values to help ensure that we are always focused on the things that our staff and patients believe are most important:
- Patients first, always
- Excellence, in all we do
- Trust, honesty and respect, for each other
- Equality, for all
Our annual staff survey results have been improving year on year, with our staff telling us that their experience of working at the Trust is getting better and better. They also indicate that our staff feel very loyal to the RNOH and committed to its role in providing the very best care to our complex patient group. We hope that we can welcome you to our growing team soon.
Job overview
The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (RNOH) has an exciting opportunity within the Children's Hospital Unit to appoint a Locum Paediatric Consultant (5PAs).
The postholder will be expected to maintain the highest clinical standards in the practice of paediatrics and will undertake any reasonable clinical responsibility which relates to paediatric medicine
The post includes 8 full attending weeks per year with daily ward round for the paediatric inpatients in CHDU and Coxen ward. Attending weeks run Wednesday to Wednesday and there is an MDT handover meeting on Wednesday. Attending weeks can be split in accordance with the needs of the individual and service.
You must be fully registered with the GMC/GDC and hold a full License to Practise and be on the specialist register, or within six months of attaining your CCT or equivalent at interview stage.
Main duties of the job
· The postholder will be expected to maintain the highest clinical standards in the practice of paediatrics and will undertake any reasonable clinical responsibility which relates to paediatric medicine.
· The post includes 8 full attending weeks per year with daily ward round for the paediatric inpatients in CHDU and Coxen ward. Attending weeks run Wednesday to Wednesday and there is an MDT handover meeting on Wednesday.
· The consultant is expected to provide further on site paediatric input until 5 pm (weekdays) and 1pm (weekends). Ward cover is provided by the attending consultant paediatrician off site from 5pm to 8am (weekdays) and off site from 1pm-9am (on weekends).
· The post holder will be expected to take a lead role in the care of postoperative patients on the children’s ward.
· There is specific time allocated within this role for supporting the pre-assessment of children with complex neuromuscular conditions for spinal deformity correction.
· The post holder will be expected to take an active and engaged role in departmental and academic responsibilities as allocated by agreement across the department, including cover for colleagues’ annual leave and other authorised absences as appropriate.
Working for our organisation
RNOH Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (RNOH) is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a global leader in our field. We provide a dynamic working environment where we support frontline staff to implement improvements so that we can realise our vision of being a world leading neuro-musculoskeletal hospital providing the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS, delivering world leading research, and offering a strong foundation of education, training and career progression. Our dedicated staff come from diverse backgrounds, and our patients benefit from the wide range of experience they bring to the trust. RNOH brings unrivalled expertise together in one place allowing us to deliver some of the world’s most complex and innovative care to our patients. RNOH is rated good by the CQC and covers two sites, one in central London and one in Stanmore - which has recently opened The Stanmore Building, a new, state-of-the-art inpatient facility. For more information, please access the following link: https://www.rnoh.nhs.uk/
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The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust aims to be a world-leading orthopaedic hospital with the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Jobs with 5 Programmed Activities will be offered as 4 Direct Clinical Care (DCC) and 1 Supporting Professional Activity (SPA). There will be an initial job plan review meeting with the Clinical Director within the first 6 months of employment. The specific job plan will be developed in partnership between the needs of the department and the successful applicant.
· The post will have direct clerical and operational support as well as secondary administrative support to facilitate the consultant’s participation in national and local audits and registries.
· The department are moving towards a team-based approach to their workload.
· Resources are deployed flexibly in the way that best meets patients’ needs. The post holder would be expected to participate in this approach.
· The job plan will involve the following commitments: -
Up to 4 PAs Direct Clinical Care including:
· 8 attending weeks per year
No less than 1 PA Supporting Professional Activities
· Agreement should be reached with the Clinical Director with regard to scheduling of activities, including Supporting Professional Activities.
Person specification
Education, qualification and training
Essential criteria
- MRCPCH by examination or equivalent
- Full GMC registration
- Entry on the GMC specialist register via CCT/CESR/CESR-CP – proposed CCT date must be within 6 months of interview.
- APLS in date
- Level 3 safeguarding training
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of training with regards to teaching health professionals
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Evidence of working effectively within a multi-specialist inter-disciplinary team environment
Desirable criteria
- Experience of preparing medically complex patients for surgery
- Interest in Respiratory/Neurodisability medicine
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in UK Health system
Desirable criteria
- Experience of acute postoperative care.
Audit and Clinical Effectiveness
Essential criteria
- Demonstration of an understanding of clinical audit.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of having undertaken audits which have changed clinical practice.
Managerial
Essential criteria
- Demonstration of an understanding of NHS management structure.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of attendance on managerial course(s),
Communication and personal skills
Essential criteria
- Able to communicate with and motivate colleagues, medical and non-medical.
- Evidence of being a good communicator.
- Demonstrates professionalism in attitude and application. Good Team worker.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of ability to lead and motivate a team
People
Essential criteria
- Able to integrate within the Paediatric Unit and compliments the existing skills/ interests of the Paediatric Directorate.
Circumstances
Essential criteria
- Willing to reside within 30 minutes’ drive of the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital when on-call.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Melanie Speakman
- Job title
- Divisional Clinical Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02089095560
- Additional information
Or Dr Sherine Dewlett via Stephanie Batten –Paediatric Consultant Lead [email protected] 0208 9095871
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