Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for 2 full time consultants to join a growing service. Nottingham Children's Hospital is part of Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and is based at the Queen's Medical Centre. It has the full range of specialist paediatric services including paediatric intensive care, oncology, neurology and neurosurgery, rheumatology, ENT, plastic surgery, cardiology, renal transplant and surgery. The expansion in consultant PAs has been brought about to support a busy nutrition service.
The Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition (PGHAN) service within The Nottingham Children's Hospital is a growing service serving a population of a large part of the East Midlands including Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, and Derbyshire, and a population base of 2.6 million. The department provides with its network partners in the region, the full specification of a tertiary PGHAN service. Within the children's hospital, the department provides the full range of diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic services, including urgent and emergency endoscopies. It works closely with the neonatal surgical service and runs the nutritional rehabilitation programme including looking after children on home PN.
Main duties of the job
The appointee will be responsible for the following:
- Provision with Consultant colleagues of a comprehensive elective and emergency Paediatric Gastroenterology/Hepatology & Nutrition service during normal working hours. The appointee will be responsible for the management of emergency / elective patients admitted under his / her care.
- Provision of reciprocal cover for periods of leave.
- Continuing responsibility for the care of patients in his/her charge and participation in quality improvement programmes within the department.
There is a collaborative working arrangement with the adult gastroenterology department with who we look after a growing cohort of adolescents with IBD going through transition. The department has access to 8 endoscopy lists each month and this will be expanding with the increase demand on the service. In addition to Nutritional consults the specialty provides consultations for a number of co-located services including surgery, renal transplant, paediatric intensive care, spinal surgery, oncology and general paediatrics.
About us
Hospital services for children in Nottingham merged onto a single site at Queen's Medical Centre and Nottingham Children's Hospital was created within it.
We provide a comprehensive range of specialist services for children in Nottingham, together with tertiary paediatric and neonatal services to the adjacent areas of Lincolnshire, Derbyshire and North Nottinghamshire (Trent SHA catchment area), surgical services for Stoke on Trent in the Midlands and neurosurgical services for Leicestershire. We also provide supra-regional services for paediatric spinal surgery, rheumatology, nephro-urology and cystic fibrosis. Paediatric cardiac surgery and hepato-biliary surgery are not resourced locally.
The Childrens Hospital is situated in East Block on D and E floors, with out-patient departments on B floor and comprises:
- Eight wards - 121 Beds, including critical care
- Critical care unit - 14 beds
- An Oncology Day Case Unit with anaesthetic facilities,
- A Short Stay unit for observation of the acutely ill child
- A large Hospital school.
- The Academic Division of Child Health (University of Nottingham School of Human Development).
- A 22-bedded Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (situated on B floor adjacent to the delivery suite)
- A separate children's Emergency Department sees in excess of 40,000 children per year and a new purpose built facility has been built as part of the Accident and Emergency extension plans (situated on A floor).
- 2 outpatient areas on B Floor, South and East
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job description enclosed
The service benefits from its links with the Adult GI department and runs 14 adolescent/transition clinics per year. This is set to expand with the growing cohort of IBD cases. The links with the Nottingham Digestive Diseases Centre and the NIHR funded Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) creates opportunities for collaborative research, and the department participates in research studies, and commercial pharmaceutical trials.
Please note this job description has not yet received Royal College approval and may be subject to change based on their advice.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job description enclosed
The service benefits from its links with the Adult GI department and runs 14 adolescent/transition clinics per year. This is set to expand with the growing cohort of IBD cases. The links with the Nottingham Digestive Diseases Centre and the NIHR funded Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) creates opportunities for collaborative research, and the department participates in research studies, and commercial pharmaceutical trials.
Please note this job description has not yet received Royal College approval and may be subject to change based on their advice.
Person Specification
Professional Registration
Essential
- Full registration with the GMC. Eligible to be included on the specialist register
- MB BS or equivalent
Desirable
- CCT in PGHAN (or equivalent training) or within 6 months of achieving CCT in PGHAN at the time of interview
Professional Qualification/Development
Essential
Desirable
- Additional Post-graduate training/higher degree
Clinical Skills/Experience
Essential
- Training in Paediatrics and Paediatric Gastroenterology.
- Safeguarding level 3 training
- Training in Hepatology and Nutrition including diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy
- Up to date advanced life support training
Teaching Audit and Research
Essential
- Understanding of research principles and ability to appraise research critically.
- Evidence of participation in clinical audit.
- Enthusiastic about undergraduate teaching
- Able to teach junior staff effectively and supervise juniors undertaking research projects.
Desirable
- Original research publications.
- Teaching qualification
Management Skills
Essential
- Able to communicate effectively and appropriately with patients their families and other health professionals.
- Able to work within a team.
- Able to work flexibly in a changing health service
- Able to develop present and action coherent ideas for service development/delivery
- . Able to delegate appropriately.
Person Specification
Professional Registration
Essential
- Full registration with the GMC. Eligible to be included on the specialist register
- MB BS or equivalent
Desirable
- CCT in PGHAN (or equivalent training) or within 6 months of achieving CCT in PGHAN at the time of interview
Professional Qualification/Development
Essential
Desirable
- Additional Post-graduate training/higher degree
Clinical Skills/Experience
Essential
- Training in Paediatrics and Paediatric Gastroenterology.
- Safeguarding level 3 training
- Training in Hepatology and Nutrition including diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy
- Up to date advanced life support training
Teaching Audit and Research
Essential
- Understanding of research principles and ability to appraise research critically.
- Evidence of participation in clinical audit.
- Enthusiastic about undergraduate teaching
- Able to teach junior staff effectively and supervise juniors undertaking research projects.
Desirable
- Original research publications.
- Teaching qualification
Management Skills
Essential
- Able to communicate effectively and appropriately with patients their families and other health professionals.
- Able to work within a team.
- Able to work flexibly in a changing health service
- Able to develop present and action coherent ideas for service development/delivery
- . Able to delegate appropriately.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
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Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).