Locum Consultant Community Paediatrics
The closing date is 04 June 2026.
The successful candidate will work across Children Looked After service and Neurodevelopment, Neurodisability and safeguarding service.
The post holder will be clinically competent in meeting the health needs of Children Looked After, including those undergoing adoption as appropriate to role. The post holder will also be expected to be part of the clinical team who contribute as Medical advisor to the Adoption Panel.
The post holder should be competent in providing holistic support to children with complex disability including linking multidisciplinary team.
The post-holder will deliver clinical safeguarding child protection medical assessments in the dedicated children’s safeguarding facility, the Anlaby Suite. Following all medical examinations the post-holder will be responsible for producing written reports/statements for child protection and civil/criminal court proceedings.
The Service does not contribute to Autism and ADHD assessments as the Neurodiversity assessment and support is hosted by an alternative provider locally (Humber Mental health Foundation Trust).
There will be no on call commitments with this role. The post holder will also work collaboratively with nursing, allied health professionals, and management colleagues to ensure delivery of high-quality paediatric care.
Main duties of the job
This post comprises 7 Programmed Activities (PAs) with evolving opportunity to increase PA overtime.
1.5 PA Supporting Professional Activity (SPA) is allocated, covering professional development, teaching, audit, and governance. Additional SPA time can be allocated for research, clinical management and educational supervisor (ES) activity.
An indicative job plan will be provided; however, this may evolve in line with organisational vision, service development, and population needs.
The timetable can be flexible and may be adapted to reflect the appointee’s special interests and expertise, subject to service requirements and future funding availability.
The job plan will be formally reviewed six months after appointment to ensure that the allocation of PAs appropriately reflects the responsibilities of the post.
Teaching, Training and Education
The post holder will contribute to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, including the training and supervision of junior doctors and other healthcare professionals.
Participation in educational supervision and clinical supervision of trainees is expected, subject to appropriate accreditation.
About us
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts – Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) – our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas – biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.
Job responsibilities
For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person Specification
Professional Registration
- On the GMC’s Specialist Register OR within six months of CCT at time of scheduled interview
- Please add a note explaining that Portfolio Pathway (formerly CESR) applicants must be on the Specialist Register at the point of application
- Valid BLS Training
- Valid APLS and NLS (this may be mandatory for some posts).
Qualifications and Training
- Valid APLS certificate
- Valid level 3 safeguarding training
- Evidence of appropriate experience in neurodiversity assessment
Clinical Experience
- Can demonstrate having achieved the competencies equivalent to the higher specialist paediatric training in Community paediatrics
- Able to undertake statutory children Looked After/adoption health assessments, including those with complex healthcare needs and provide written report
- Be able to provide advice to local authority adoption and fostering panels
- Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
- Child safeguarding
- Complex safeguarding Experience as Medical advisor for Adoption panel
Management and Administration Experience
- Ability to manage and lead medical/surgical teams
- Ability to lead on smooth and efficient running of the unit
- Ability to organise, prioritise and manage high intensity workload
- Ability to develop, present and operationalise coherent ideas for service development/ delivery
Teaching, Audit and Research
- Experience of supervising junior medical staff
- Commiment to formal and informal teaching of medical staff, AHPs and medical students
- Evidence of participation in audit
- Ability to extrapolate clinical research evidence to care for individual patients
- Evidence of having conducted a practicechanging audit
- Experience of teaching/ training in clinical courses e.g. IMPACT Course, Faculty, ALS Instructor, ALERT Instructor
- Original peer-reviewed research publications
Personal Attributes
- Ability to work flexibly in a changing health service
- Excellent manner with patients, being sensitive to their needs and fears
- Ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GPs, Nurses and other health professionals and flex style as appropriate
- Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional and national levels
- Ability to communicate effectively with external agencies and other disciplines
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.
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
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