Acute Consultant Paediatrician with an interest in Epilepsy

Job Overview

We have an opportunity for an acute consultant paediatrician with an

interest in epilepsy to join the friendly paediatric team at Airedale.

The department offers a supportive and encouraging environment for

professional development and a satisfying work life balance.

The role involves covering acute shifts, covering the children’s ward,

assessment unit and the neonatal unit, with elective work covering

outpatient epilepsy and neurology alongside an established

consultant and community consultants.

Main duties of the job

Epilepsy patients are shared between the community paediatricians

(who look after the patients who also have complex neurodisability)

and the paediatrician with expertise in epilepsy. Patients are also

supported by an epilepsy specialist nurse. We have facilities for most

neurological investigations you would expect in a DGH, including

standard, sleep and 24-hour ambulatory EEG, CT and MRI. We use

the V create video service to aide in diagnosis. We participate in the

epilepsy 12 national audit. There are also headache clinics and there

is an opportunity to develop further neurology clinics if desired by the

successful candidate. Our tertiary centre for neurology referrals and

support is Leeds.

Airedale has visiting specialists from the local teaching hospital in

Leeds, including cardiology, endocrinology, nephrology, rheumatology

and various paediatric surgical specialities. There is also an

established diabetes and allergy service, and we are a shared care

site for paediatric oncology.

The paediatric rota is a 1 in 10. Airedale has a paediatrician of the

week structure. We split the cover over the weekend between the

paediatrician of the week and another consultant, please see the

attached example timetable on page 5.

Working for our organisation

We are always looking for enterprising and innovative approaches to the way we provide our services. We are a national centre for telemedicine and introduced telehealth to the UK offender healthcare sector and also provide a similar service to patients in their care homes. Community matters to us and we are supported by 400 dedicated volunteers and have strong links with Leeds Medical School, Bradford University, Craven College and Leeds City College to ensure we inspire the workforce of the future.

We want to attract staff who embrace our ‘Right Care’ behaviours of compassion, a commitment to quality of care and working together for patients – we want to make this part of our DNA.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For further details of this post please see attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Full GMC Registration
• MB BCh or equivalent
• Higher qualification in Paediatrics -MRCPCH or equivalent.
• Child Protection Training
• On GMC's Specialist Register or be no more than three months from obtaining CCT at interview date