Speciality Doctor in Acute Paediatrics

These substantive Specialty Doctor posts have been established to provide experienced senior paediatric input to acute paediatric services within Oxford Children's Hospital. The successful candidates will work at senior middle-grade level within a consultant‑led service, contributing to the acute paediatric registrar rota whilst supporting the delivery of high-quality care across the Children’s Emergency Department, Children’s Clinical Decision Unit and inpatient acute paediatric services.

Applicants should note that the posts are intended to support services across both Oxford Children’s Hospital and the Horton General Hospital, Banbury, and that the distribution of duties may change over time in response to service needs. The posts offer a substantive career‑grade opportunity within a supportive tertiary children’s hospital. In addition to providing a varied and rewarding clinical role, the posts offer opportunities to participate in teaching, clinical governance, quality improvement, leadership and service development activities, supporting ongoing professional development and career progression.

• Full GMC with licence to practice
• MBBS or equivalent
• APLS (or equivalent) course in date
• Level 3 safeguarding training, Significant experience at paediatric registrar, Specialty Doctor or equivalent senior middle-grade level
• Acute paediatric experience
• Experience supervising resident doctors
• Teaching experience, Ability to lead MDTs during acute clinical activity
• Ability to make decisions at senior registrar level within a consultant‑led service, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

  The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.

  The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton Hospital in Banbury. Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
  
  Many of our recruitment programmes use values‑based interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significance difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families., The postholder will provide senior clinical assessment and management of infants, children and young people presenting with acute medical conditions to Oxford Children’s Hospital.
  
  Clinical duties include the assessment and management of patients referred by primary care, children presenting to the Children’s Emergency Department who require paediatric review, patients managed within the Children’s Clinical Decision Unit, and children admitted to the acute paediatric wards. The postholder will work at senior middle-grade level within the acute paediatric rota, contributing alongside paediatric specialty registrars within a consultant‑led service.
  
  Consultant paediatric support is available at all times. The Children’s Emergency Department at the John Radcliffe Hospital is a dedicated self‑contained paediatric facility operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Children and young people from birth to 15 years of age are seen within the department. Children presenting with injuries are primarily managed by Emergency Department…