Trust Fellow in Paediatric Surgery (ST3+ equivalent)

Job overview

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well -integrated Paediatric Surgery team based at the Great North Children’s Hospital.  You will support with the provision of specialist paediatric surgical services to the Northern Region, which will include three elective operating lists and two outpatient sessions per week, as well as ward assessment and management of elective and emergency admissions.

This post is available from March/April 2025 for 12 months. You will hold MRCS or equivalent and will be fully registered with the GMC at time of application.  You will be an effective team worker with the ability to communicate well with both patients and staff at all levels.  Previous clinical experience in both the UK or overseas in Paediatric Surgery would be desirable.

In addition to the challenges of the role, we can offer you a commitment to teaching, education, research and audit.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Main duties of the job

This post is based in the Department of Paediatric Surgery in the New Victoria Wing of the Royal Victoria Infirmary, which provides Specialist Paediatric Surgical services to the Northern Region.

For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: Mr Alok Godse on 0191 2824686, or via email at [email protected].

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical:

• Ward assessment and management of elective and emergency admissions. •    Experience in neonatal surgical and intensive care unit. •    Three elective operating lists and 2 outpatient sessions per week. •    On-call duties on a 1 in 7 basis including prospective cover. •    Maintain high standards of clinical care, contemporary note keeping and adherence to the admission and discharge process. •    Responsibility for effective communication with other members of the clinical team to ensure the planned management for each patient is carried out. •    Communication with patients and their relatives. •    Arrange investigations for patients and ensure results available in a timely manner. •    Undertake referrals to other clinical teams and ensure effective communication of the underlying problem. •    Undertake a key role in planning and implementing effective discharge, including any communication with the relevant community care team. •    Ensure medical students have opportunity to meet their own learning outcomes. •    Participate in feedback and evaluation of the foundation programme. •    Participate fully in educational programme and ensure that appraisal and feedback occurs in a timely manner.

Teaching:

• Regular postgraduate teaching.

Audit:

• Active participation in Clinical Audit is expected and time is set aside to encompass this.

Emergencies:

• You will also perform duties in occasional emergencies and unforeseen circumstances at the request of the appropriate consultant, in consultation where practicable with your colleagues both senior and junior.  It has been agreed between the profession and the department that while junior doctors accept that they will perform such duties, the Secretary of State stresses that additional commitments arising under the subsection are exceptional and, in particular, that junior doctors should not be required to undertake work of this kind for prolonged periods or on a regular basis.

Cover for Colleagues’ Absences:

• Prospective cover included.

Study and Training:

• The post is in a department recognised for run through training in Paediatric Surgery. •    Subject to the exigencies of the service, time off with pay and expenses for approved courses and conferences is granted in accordance with Regional Policy. •    Formal postgraduate education is mostly carried out at a once weekly “Grand Round” which occupies an entire morning.  The session commences with formal teaching, a radiology conference conducted by the Consultant Paediatric Radiologist and a round on the Neonatal Surgical Unit. There is a once monthly clinical audit meeting and there is discussion of significant administrative or clinical problems that have arisen in the department.  There are monthly meetings for Pathology, Morbidity and Mortality, Audit Projects and Journal Club. •    Weekly multidisciplinary meetings are held with the Departments of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Paediatric Oncology and Paediatric Nephrology, as well as the opportunities to attend prenatal counselling sessions for parents of infants with surgical conditions. •    The University medical library is located in the Medical School to which the Royal Victoria Infirmary is directly connected.  This library is open in the evenings during term-time and access from the Royal Victoria Infirmary is easy.  The department itself is well supplied with relevant textbooks and journals. •    Study facilities are provided by the University Department of Surgery and the University Department of Child Health.