Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatrics
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 423-7525596
- Employer
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Airedale General Hospital
- Town
- Steeton
- Salary
- £109,725 - £145,478 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Acute Consultant Paediatrician with an interest in Epilepsy
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Be part of our future landscape
At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people’s age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.
We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.
These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030. By joining us now you’ll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future – a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust.
Please read the attached AI statement prior to submitting any application
Job overview
We have an opportunity for an acute consultant paediatrician with an
interest in epilepsy to join the friendly paediatric team at Airedale.
The department offers a supportive and encouraging environment for
professional development and a satisfying work life balance.
The role involves covering acute shifts, covering the children’s ward,
assessment unit and the neonatal unit, with elective work covering
outpatient epilepsy and neurology alongside an established
consultant and community consultants.
Main duties of the job
Epilepsy patients are shared between the community paediatricians
(who look after the patients who also have complex neurodisability)
and the paediatrician with expertise in epilepsy. Patients are also
supported by an epilepsy specialist nurse. We have facilities for most
neurological investigations you would expect in a DGH, including
standard, sleep and 24-hour ambulatory EEG, CT and MRI. We use
the V create video service to aide in diagnosis. We participate in the
epilepsy 12 national audit. There are also headache clinics and there
is an opportunity to develop further neurology clinics if desired by the
successful candidate. Our tertiary centre for neurology referrals and
support is Leeds.
Airedale has visiting specialists from the local teaching hospital in
Leeds, including cardiology, endocrinology, nephrology, rheumatology
and various paediatric surgical specialities. There is also an
established diabetes and allergy service, and we are a shared care
site for paediatric oncology.
The paediatric rota is a 1 in 10. Airedale has a paediatrician of the
week structure. We split the cover over the weekend between the
paediatrician of the week and another consultant, please see the
attached example timetable on page 5.
Working for our organisation
We are always looking for enterprising and innovative approaches to the way we provide our services. We are a national centre for telemedicine and introduced telehealth to the UK offender healthcare sector and also provide a similar service to patients in their care homes. Community matters to us and we are supported by 400 dedicated volunteers and have strong links with Leeds Medical School, Bradford University, Craven College and Leeds City College to ensure we inspire the workforce of the future.
We want to attract staff who embrace our ‘Right Care’ behaviours of compassion, a commitment to quality of care and working together for patients – we want to make this part of our DNA.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details of this post please see attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Full GMC Registration
- MB BCh or equivalent
- Higher qualification in Paediatrics -MRCPCH or equivalent.
- Child Protection Training
- On GMC's Specialist Register or be no more than three months from obtaining CCT at interview date
Desirable criteria
- Post Graduate Degree e.g. MD, PhD, MSc
Experience
Essential criteria
- General paediatric experience post SHO
- Training and experience otherwise equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT
- 6 months as Middle Grade training on Level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in a DGH General Paediatrics
- Six months experience in a specialty useful to the Department
- Management qualification
- Budgetary awareness
- One year as Middle Grade training on Level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care Uni
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
- Paula Beadle
- Job title
- Clinical Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01535 292434
- Additional information
Sarah Walters
Operations Director for Women’s Children’s & Specialist Services
Email: [email protected]
Tel: 01535 293449
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