Consultant Paediatrician Special Interest in Paediatric Allergy

Consultant Paediatrician with Special Interest in Paediatric Allergy Consultant

Main area Paediatrics Grade Consultant Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 40 hours per week (10 sessions per week) Job
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Employer King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Princess Royal University Hospital Town Orpington Salary £109,725 - £145,478 per annum excl. London Zone Allowance. Salary period Yearly Closing 22/03/2026 23:59 Interview date 16/04/2026

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c £1.8 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.

We encourage all our staff to have a healthy work/life balance. In doing so, you can apply for flexible working from the beginning of your employment. We offer a range of options which are designed to suit different circumstances and priorities in line with service requirements.

This is a substantive replacement General Paediatric Consultant post with an interest in allergy. The remit of the postholder will be to work within the multi–disciplinary team providing and care for Children at PRUH working on the general paediatric rota and contributing to the paediatric allergy service. In addition, the individual will be required to play an active role in the general workload of the Care Group while having a commitment to teaching and training of junior staff.

All employees are expected to undertake work on any of the Trust’s sites as required by the service. As a senior employee of the Trust, you will work in close co-operation with, and support other clinical, medical professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality healthcare to the Trust’s patients. Integral to these responsibilities are the following:

• The provision of a first‑class clinical service

• Effective leadership to all staff engaged in the specialty

• Sustaining and developing teaching and research in conjunction with King’s College London / KHP

• Undertaking all work in accordance with the Trust’s procedures and operating policies

• Conducting clinical practice in accordance with contractual requirements and within the parameters of the Trust’s service plans

• Maintaining the confidence of business plans and development strategies formulated for the specialty, the Care Group or the Trust

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts, with a turnover of £1.8bn per annum – and we are delighted you are considering a career with us.

Our teams provide services out of five hospitals across South East London and Kent, namely King’s College Hospital, the Princess Royal University Hospital, Orpington Hospital, Queen Mary’s Hospital Sidcup, and Beckenham Beacon.

We employ nearly 14,000 staff, who together treat over 1.5 million patients every year.

We provide a full range of local and specialist services, and our teams are nationally and internationally recognised for our work in liver disease and transplantation, neurosciences, cardiac, haemato‑oncology, fetal medicine, stroke, major trauma, and emergency medicine.

11. Together with other colleagues, to provide a high quality care service to patients. This includes all aspects of treatment and relevant management duties for the proper functioning of the Care Group.

22. Shared responsibility with other colleagues for providing 24 hours, 7 days a week cover for the Unit on a rota basis. Responsible also for covering colleagues’ periods of annual leave and short‑term sickness as detailed in your contract.

33. Provide clinical supervision of junior medical/dental practitioners as a shared responsibility with other consultant…