# Consultant Paediatrician With An Interest In Epilepsy

**Company**: Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
**Location**: Carshalton
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £113,565 to £150,569 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are currently looking to recruit a Consultant Paediatrician with an interest in Epilepsy to Queen Mary's Hospital for Children, St Helier Hospital, to help deliver our service in the boroughs of Merton and Sutton.

The post holder will work collaboratively with the acute General Paediatric team during working hours to provide routine day to day acute paediatric services.

The post holder would contribute to Epilepsy, including Complex Epilepsy and General Paediatrics outpatient activity.

The post holder will be attending Consultant on a 1 in 5 week basis and on the General Paediatric ward and join the on call team with a 1 in 8 on call frequency.

**Main duties of the job**

The successful applicant will play a crucial role in ensuring the team continue to deliver a high quality service and will be involved in strategic planning of services with our local partners.

**Job responsibilities**

- To provide a comprehensive clinical service to patients

- To ensure that patient confidentiality is maintained at all times

- To undertake duties as defined within the attached job plan

- To be responsible and managerially accountable for the reasonable and effective use of Trust resources

- To participate in the Trusts Statutory & Mandatory training programme

- To be responsible for the Clinical Management of in and out patients under your care

**Person Specification**

- Full GMC registration with a licence to practise

- On or within 6 months of the GMC Specialist Register for General Paediatrics

- Holder of a CCT/CESR in General Paediatrics

- Membership of Royal College of Paediatrics and Child (MRCPCH)

- Level 3 child protection

- APLS / NLS

**Benefits**

- Competitive salary: £113,565 to £150,569 a year

- Permanent, full-time position

## Skills

### Required
- General Paediatrics
- Epilepsy
- Acute Paediatric services
- Clinical Management
- Patient care

### Nice to have
- Neurodisability
- Childhood Epilepsy
- Service organisation and development
- Postgraduate research
- Publications in peer review journals

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