Job summary
- Main area
- Acute Paediatrics
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 9PAs
- Job ref
- 321-MS-CON-7225914-S5
- Employer
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Childrens Hospital
- Town
- Oxford
- Salary
- £109,725 - £145,478 Pa Pro Rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant in Acute Paediatrics special interest Paediatric Nephrology
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
Many of our recruitment programmes use values-based interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significance difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families.
For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit http://www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values/default.aspx
Job overview
The candidate will be responsible for the assessment and immediate care of children admitted acutely to hospital, the care of children in outpatient clinics, and all relevant clinical administrative work for his/her own patients.
Outline of duties as below.
Main duties of the job
Outpatient clinics: These clinics review General Paediatric referrals from GPs within the community as well as from Specialists within the Oxford Children’s Hospital.
On call Duties: including the management and discussion of patients admitted under acute/general paediatrics to the Oxford Children’s Hospital from 5pm- 9am. Frequency on calls will differ between summer and winter months. These shifts are non- resident.
Consultant of the week: We run a consultant of the week system consisting of daily ward rounds supported by a full team of trainees, SAS doctors, inpatient psychiatrists and psychologists, safeguarding doctors and nurses, social care, specialist medical teams like respiratory medicine, gastroenterology, endocrinology, cardiology, neurology, oncology, rheumatology, paediatric surgery, genetics, paediatric orthopaedic surgery, paediatric intensive care with a dedicated inpatient HDU outreach team, and advanced nurse practitioners.
Nephrology: Duties will include undertaking weekly nephrology clinics, liaison and support for specialties within the Children’s hospital in Oxford including providing support for Paediatric Urology (staffed by 3 Consultant Paediatric Urologists), Foetal Medicine/Neonatology, Oncology and Acute Paediatric services.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.
We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence, and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
In 2023 NHS England launched its first sexual safety charter, and our Trust proudly signed it. We pledge zero tolerance for inappropriate sexual behaviour and commit to the ten core principles
Oxford University Hospitals promotes a safe, respectful hiring environment.
If you want to make a difference with us, come and join our team. Together, we will uphold the highest standards of care and professionalism.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification detailing the main responsibilities of the post.
Person specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- MBBS or equivalent
- MRCPCH by examination or equivalent CCT in Paediatrics. OR Registration on GMC Specialist Register in Paediatrics. OR within three months of achieving CCT at the time of interview.
Desirable criteria
- Higher medical degree
- Evidence of experience of service development Level 4 Safeguarding
Experience
Essential criteria
- Can demonstrate having achieved the competencies equivalent to the Highest Specialist Paediatric Training
- Child protection experience
- Evidence of ability to make decisions at consultant level and to manage complex clinical problems.
- Tertiary level experience in Paediatric Nephrology
Desirable criteria
- Tertiary level experience in Paediatric Nephrology at Consultant level
- Interest in research with publications
- Evidence of child protection reports/court experience
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Excellent leadership skills.
- Evidence of ability to lead a clinical team at the level of a consultant in a teaching hospital.
- Effective administrative and time management skills. Knowledge of the management and structure of the NHS
- Training in clinical management.
- Evidence of significant contribution to successful teamwork
- Good spoken and written English.
- Meets the requirements of the GMC’s Good Medical Practice.
- Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills, including communicating bad news.
- Energy and enthusiasm , Ability to work under pressure. Flexible approach
- Caring attitude to patients, carers, and colleagues
- Experience of formal and informal contributions to teaching and training.
- Evidence of effective and sustained contribution to clinical governance, clinical risk management and clinical audit activities
- Experience and knowledge of critical appraisal of evidence, to improve clinical outcomes
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of leadership attributes and experience
- Evidence of motivational skills
- Management qualification
- Evidence of service development and improvement.
- Education qualification
- Evidence of QIP activity
- Peer reviewed publications Research grants, research degree
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability to fulfil all the duties of the post, including on-call commitments and travel requirements.
- Satisfactory Enhanced DBS and required immigration status
- Full registration and licence to practise
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Ulrike Uhlig
- Job title
- Clinical Lead, Acute Paediatrics
- Email address
- [email protected]
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