Consultant - Community Paediatrician

Main area Community Paediatric Grade NHS Medical & Dental:
Consultant Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 10 sessions per week (Additional PAs dependant on service needs and job planning.) Job
-L0120526-B

Site Longlands Child Development Centre Town Lancaster Salary £113,565 - £150,569 Additional PAs discussed as part of job planning Salary period Yearly Closing 13/08/2026 23:59

''Creating a great place to be cared for and a great place to work''

University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay has a firm commitment to strengthening the diversity of our workforce, and therefore welcome and encourage applications from likeminded people who can support our ambition to become effortlessly inclusive. We are particularly keen to hear from protected groups – including BAME, LGBT+ and people with a disability.

The Community Paediatric Neurodevelopmental Service is seeking a Consultant Community Paediatrician.

The ideal applicant will have experience of all aspects of community paediatrics including child development, ASD, ADHD, neuro disability, Children Looked After, children in need and children with special educational needs.

You will have an ability to work independently, but within a supportive team. Multiagency and multidisciplinary working is expected and encouraged.

An area of special interest to complement those already available in the Department would be welcomed and can be discussed.

You will have ready access to senior opinion when required. Additional training will be made available for any areas a successful candidate has less experience of. Career progression will be supported and encouraged via a named supervisor, mentoring, annual appraisal and job planning.

There are no on-call or acute responsibilities attached to this post. However, there are opportunities to interact with acute colleagues based at Royal Lancaster Infirmary, and with colleagues in South Cumbria, thus ensuring an integrated approach to child health. We have good links with our therapy colleagues, integrated children’s community nursing team (via UHMB) and our colleagues in School nursing and Health visiting (via Virgin Care) and Education.

Within UHMBFT, Children and Young People’s (CYP) Services are integrated within the Medicine, Emergency Care and Children’s Services (MECCS) Division. Leadership and support is provided through a robust management and governance structure.

The CYP team provides hospital-based acute paediatric care, neonatal services, scheduled day case and outpatient care, and safeguarding / child-protection expertise. UHMBT covers North Lancashire and South Cumbria. In North Lancashire, University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (UHMBFT) is responsible for the provision of community paediatric services in the Morecambe Bay Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) area.

W e have 3 Community Paediatric Consultants , 2 Associate Specialists (one shared with acute services) , and one Speciality Doctor who have a range of interests including Autism, ADHD, Neurodisability and Looke d A fter C hildren. We have 2 Pae d i atric trainees from the N orth W est Deanery working with us in Community Paediatrics. A number of our consultants hold acute clinics in addition to providing clinics in the community.

Morecambe Bay is part of the ICS which involves Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, East Lancs Hospital Trust and Blackpool Teaching Hospitals. Working together to develop services across the geographical footprint.

We operate from three main hospitals - Furness General Hospital (FGH) in Barrow, the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI), and Westmorland General Hospital (WGH) in Kendal, as well as a number of community health care premises including Millom Hospital and GP Practice, Queen Victoria Hospital in Morecambe, and Ulverston Community Health Centre.

FGH and the RLI have a range of General Hospital services, with full Emergency Departments, Critical/Coronary Care units and various Consultant-led services.

WGH provides a range of General Hospital services, together with an Urgent Treatment Centre, that can help with a range of non-life threatening conditions…