Locum Consultant in Paediatric Surgery

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Main area Paediatric Surgery Grade NHS Medical & Dental:
Consultant Contract Locum: 12 months Hours Full time - 10 sessions per week (Consultant on call rota) Job  
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Site Birmingham Children’s Hospital Town Birmingham Salary £113,565 - £150,569 Dependant on experience Salary period Yearly Closing 30/09/2026 23:59

Flexible working arrangements may be considered and discussions with the recruiting manager regarding this are encouraged.

Applications are invited for a Locum Consultant Paediatric Surgeon to join the team in Department of Paediatric Surgery and Urology at Birmingham Children’s Hospital. This is a locum post, in the first instance but has the possibility of becoming substantive in 1 year. This post will be to provide paediatric surgery cover on an unselected on-call and to provide routine general paediatric surgery, and to work alongside Mr A Lander, Miss Anna Harris and Mr Ian Jones and in the colorectal team alongside the colorectal clinical nurse specialists and Physician Associate, and if the candidate does not have expertise in colorectal surgery now, to develop this interest and competence in post.

Birmingham Children’s Hospital is part of Birmingham Women & Children’s NHS Foundation Trust. This comprises of 2 hospitals:
Birmingham Children’s Hospital (BCH) and Birmingham Women’s Hospital (BWH), and includes Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) providing CAMHS care. The hospital covers a population of over 5 million and provides secondary, tertiary and qua ternary services. It is a designated Paediatric Major Trauma centre.

Paediatric Surgical service covers neonatal and general paediatric surgery, as well as gastroenterology, oncology, colorectal surgery, minimally invasive surgery, major trauma and non-cardiac thoracic surgery.

The Department of Paediatric Surgery & Urology is made up of 13 Consultant Surgeons, 13 Tier 2 clinicians, 3 Clinical Nurses Specialist teams and 3 Physician Associates.

The Paediatric Urologists provide a service which encompasses all areas of Paediatric Urology practice except for Bladder Exstrophy / Epispadias.
The Paediatric Urologists provide a separate Paediatric Urology on-call service to the Paediatric surgeons.

This is a locum post in paediatric surgery. The successful applicant will be expected to have, or to develop, a subspeciality interest in Colorectal surgery (including anorectal malformations, Hirschsprung Disease, Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) and intestinal failure and support in the provision of these areas of practice.

This is a 10 PA job, including both elective and on-call commitments. This…