NHS Lothian
Children’s Services
St Johns Hospital Livingston
Consultant Paediatrician
Fixed term Six Months
1. Outline of the post
This is a fixed term post to cover maternity leave available for one year from 01 October 2015.
The post is based at the St Johns Hospital, Livingston (base hospital) with out of hours work there.
This comprises resident out of hours shifts in the middle grade rota with another consultant on call
from home and a resident FY or GPST doctor. Out of hours cover is for both paediatrics and
neonatology. This rota has contributions from other consultant paediatricians, a specialty doctor
and an advanced nurse practitioner. In time it will be augmented by a number of Clinical Fellows.
The out of hours rota is 1:9 with prospective cover. There is time in the proposed job plans for day
time sessions in a sub-specialty at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh or in
neonatology at the Simpson’s Centre for Reproductive Health. Sub-specialties available include
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Respiratory paediatrics
Gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition
Community child health
Neurology
Neurodisability
Emergency medicine
Diabetes.
The substantive post holder has a special interest in rheumatology and that would be particularly
welcome in applicants.
2. NHS Lothian
NHS Lothian is an integrated NHS Board in Scotland providing primary, community, mental health
and hospital services. Mr Tim Davison is Chief Executive and Dr David Farquharson is Medical
Director.
The NHS Board determines strategy, allocates resources and provides governance across the
health system. Services are delivered by Lothian University hospitals division, the Royal Edinburgh
hospital and Associated mental health services, 4 community health (and social care) partnerships
(CH(C)Ps) in City of Edinburgh, West Lothian, East Lothian and Midlothian, and a Public Health
directorate.
NHS Lothian serves a population of 850,000.
University Hospitals
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The University Hospitals provides a full range of secondary and tertiary clinical services to the
populations of Edinburgh, Midlothian, East Lothian and West Lothian. The Division is one of the
major research and teaching centres in the United Kingdom.
Hospitals included in the Division are:
The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
The Western General Hospital
The Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh
St Johns Hospital
Royal Victoria Hospital
Liberton Hospital
The Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion.
The Royal Infirmary (RIE) is a major teaching hospital on a green field site in the South East of
the city of Edinburgh built in 2003. It comprises 25 wards, 869 beds, and 24 operating theatres,
and is equipped with modern theatre and critical care equipment and monitoring. Within the main
building is a dedicated, multidisciplinary, 5 theatre day surgery complex. The hospital provides for
most specialities and is the centre for:
General surgery
Vascular surgery
Hepato-biliary and transplant medicine and surgery
Cardiac and thoracic surgery
Elective and trauma orthopaedic surgery
Neonatology
Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Cardiology
Renal medicine
Sleep medicine
Accident and Emergency centre.
There is a Combined Assessment Unit which takes unselected GP or direct emergency referrals,
and from A&E. CAU includes the Dept of Liaison Psychiatry and the Scottish Poisons Bureau and
Treatment Centre. There are full supporting Laboratory and Diagnostic Radiology Services
(including CT, MR, Ultrasound and NM and PET scanning will be available in 2008). There is a full
range of lecture theatres, a library and AV facilities.
The Western General Hospital (WGH) has 600 beds and 5 operating theatres and is equipped
with modern theatre and critical care equipment and monitoring. The Anne Ferguson building was
completed in 2001. The hospital provides for most specialties and is the centre for:
Neurology, neurosurgery and neuropathology
UK CJD unit
Colorectal surgery
Urology and Scottish Lithotriptor Centre
Breast surgery and breast screening
Gastroenterology
Rheumatology
Infectious diseases
Haematology/Oncology
Medical oncology
Radiation oncology
Dermatology (Inpatient)
Medicine of the Elderly/Stroke Medicine
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There is an Acute Receiving Unit, which accepts GP referrals and 999 ambulance medical cases
on a zoned basis within the city, and a nurse led Minor Injuries Unit. There is no trauma unit at this
hospital. There are full supporting Laboratory and Diagnostic Radiology Services (including CT,
MR, Ultrasound and NM).There is a full range of lecture theatres, a library and AV facilities.
St John’s Hospital opened in 1989 and is located in the centre of Livingston, a new town about 30
minutes drive west from Edinburgh. The hospital provides for most common specialties but does
not have emergency general surgery or orthopaedic trauma operating. The hospital has a
paediatric ward and is the centre for:
General Medicine with specialists in Cardiology, Diabetes & Endocrinology, Gastroenterology,
Respiratory Medicine and Care of the Elderly
Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Child Health including Paediatrics and community child health
Burns and plastic surgery.
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
ENT
Critical Care (ITU, HDU and CCU)
Accident and Emergency
General Surgery
Orthopaedics
Anaesthetics
Mental Health including ICCU and ICPU
Recent developments at SJH include a new endoscopy suite, an Intensive Psychiatric Care Unit, a
digital mammography unit, an oncology (cancer care) day centre, a satellite renal dialysis unit and
a £2.75m reprovision of A&E. There are full supporting Laboratory and Diagnostic Radiology
Services (including CT, Ultrasound and NM).
The hospital has been accredited full teaching hospital status by the University of Edinburgh. There
is a full range of lecture theatres, a library and AV facilities.
The Royal Hospital for Sick Children (RHSC) is a 141 bedded hospital providing general and
specialist services for children. The hospital is situated in a residential area close to the centre of
Edinburgh and is approximately three miles from the site of the New Royal Infirmary and the colocated University of Edinburgh Medical School and three miles from the Western General
Hospital. The RHSC is the main paediatric teaching hospital for the South-East of Scotland
providing general and specialised services on a local, regional and national basis. It acts as the
local paediatric referral centre for the children of Edinburgh
and surrounding areas, and as
a tertiary referral centre for intensive care patients; gastroenterology, hepatology & nutrition;
respiratory medicine; cardiology; nephrology; neurology; oncology; haematology; neonatal surgery;
plastic surgery; orthopaedic surgery; urological surgery and general surgery.
Hospital accommodation encompasses five theatres, a critical care unit comprising an eightbedded Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, a six-bedded High Dependency Unit and a three-bedded
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. There is an excellent library facility and a modern lecture theatre
with a full range of audio-visual equipment.
All services are supported by comprehensive radiology, neurophysiology, laboratory and therapy
services. The local radiology department provides on site Magnetic Resonance Imaging, CT
Scanning, nuclear scanning and ultrasound. On site laboratories provide biochemistry,
haematology, pathology and neuropathology services
Community Healthcare Partnerships
The four established Lothian Community Health (and Social Care) Partnerships serve the
population of Edinburgh, Midlothian, East Lothian and West Lothian.
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Hospitals in the CH(C)Ps include:
The Astley Ainslie Hospital in Edinburgh
Midlothian Community Hospital
Herdmanflat Hospital
Roodlands Hospital in East Lothian.
The four CHPs are coterminous with Edinburgh, Midlothian, East Lothian and West Lothian
Councils bringing together those responsible for planning, managing and providing communitybased health services for the population of Edinburgh and the Lothians.
There are 7,500 members of staff. In addition, there are approximately 1,000 independent
contractors in General Medical and Dental Practice, as well as pharmacists and opticians. A
population of 850,000 people is served across health board area. The range of services care of
the elderly, medical rehabilitation, community mental health, substance misuse and learning
disability, district nursing and health visiting, family planning, well woman, , comprehensive dental
care and those provided by Professions Allied to Medicine, such as physiotherapy, pharmacies
and optometrists. Specialist services provided include brain injury rehabilitation, bio-engineering
and prosthetics, drugs and alcohol misuse and harm reduction, AIDS/HIV and Children and Family
Psychiatric Services.
Royal Edinburgh Hospital and Associated Services
The Royal Edinburgh and Associated Services provides a range of Mental Health services to the
population of Lothian and other Boards within Scotland.
The Royal Edinburgh Hospital is located on the south side of the City of Edinburgh. It comprises
some 20 wards, 420 beds, day hospitals and outpatient facilities. The hospital provides the
following range of specialities:Acute Mental Health
Rehabilitation
Psychiatric Emergency Team 24/7
Outpatients
Assessment Psychiatry of Old Age
Forensic Medium Security Unit
Inpatient facilities for under 18s
Psychotherapy Service
Psychology Services
Services for Eating Disorders
Day Hospitals – Psychiatry of Old Age
The hospital is currently housed in a mix of accommodation ranging from 19th century to present.
There is a major project now in place to take forward a reprovisioning programme in line with the
strategic vision with the “Delivery for Mental Health” Scottish Executive 2006.
Department of Public Health Medicine
The aim is to improve the health of the people of Lothian in collaboration with many other partners.
Using our range of knowledge, experience and networking capability, our distinctive contributions
are:
the promotion of specific measures to monitor and improve health;
the collation and interpretation of health related information.
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The following objectives have been agreed as the basis for the Department’s work plans:
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To monitor the health status and health needs of people in Lothian;
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To promote improvements in the health of Lothian people directly, and by providing
information and advice to the public on health matters;
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To assist Lothian NHS Board to fulfil its statutory obligations;
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To contribute to strategic changes within the NHS in Lothian by providing information on
clinical effectiveness;
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To facilitate improvements in health and health care services directly, and through
‘managed clinical networks’ and wider alliances;
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To contribute on a 24 hour basis to the control and prevention of communicable diseases
and environmental hazards;
To maintain commitments to teaching, training, professional development, audit and
research.
To enable efficient management of the Department: there are at present four groups in the
Directorate. These are; Healthy Communities, Healthcare; Health Protection and Health
Information.
3. University of Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh was established in 1582 and is one of the largest in the United
Kingdom located on a number of prominent sites in Scotland’s capital city. It is Scotland’s premier
research University and within the top 5 Universities in Europe for its Biomedical Sciences.
The University of Edinburgh’s College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine (CMVM; Head
Professor Sir John Savill) is an internationally leading force in basic-to-clinical translational
research. The College has a consistent 30-year strategy of interdisciplinary and integration of basic
and clinical sciences. In the most recent Research Assessment Exercise (2008), the University of
Edinburgh was top in the United Kingdom within the UoA4 category of Hospital-based Clinical
Subjects. In 2008/9, CMVM attracted over £120 million in external peer-reviewed grant funding.
It has established several major interdisciplinary research Centres:
MRC Centre for Inflammation Research (Director, Professor John Iredale)
Centre for Cardiovascular Science (Director, Professor Brian Walker) incorporating the BHF Centre
of Research Excellence (Director, Professor John Mullins)
Centre for Reproductive Biology (Director, Professor Phillipa Saunders) and MRC Human
Reproductive Sciences Unit (Director, Professor Robert Millar) including the Tommy’s Centre
(Director, Professor Jane Norman).
MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine (Director, Professor Sir Ian Wilmut)
Centre for Molecular Medicine (Director, Professor David Porteous)
Centre for Cancer Research (Director, Professor David Harrison)
Centre for Population Health Sciences (Director, Professor Harry Campbell)
MRC Human Genetics Unit (Director, Professor Nick Hastie)
These Centres are predominantly based at two sites: the Queen’s Medical Research Institute at
the Royal Infirmary, and the Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine at the Western General
Hospital. The co-location of basic science and clinical groups within state-of-the-art infrastructure
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and technology provides an excellent and exciting opportunity to conduct translational research at
the highest level.
This academic power base is supported by clinical research infrastructure that includes:
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Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility
Clinical Research Imaging Centre
Edinburgh Clinical Trials Unit (UKCRN Registered) and Health Services Research Unit
Scottish Brain Imaging Research Centre
Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre
Academic and Clinical Central Office for Research and Development
4. NHS Library and Postgraduate Facilities
There are excellent facilities on all sites.
5. Departmental Information
Department of Medical Paediatrics
Paediatric services within NHS Lothian are provided at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in
Edinburgh and St John’s Hospital, Livingston in West Lothian. There is a close working
relationship with District General Hospitals in Kirkcaldy in Fife and the Borders District General
Hospital in Melrose 40 miles to the south. St John’s provides district general care to the children of
West Lothian and complex patients, the critically ill, surgical inpatients, surgical emergencies are
transferred to RHSC Edinburgh while neonates of less than 32 weeks gestation or those requiring
prolonged ventilation are moved to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Royal Infirmary of
Edinburgh. There is a neonatal transport team and a paediatric intensive care retrieval team.
This post is designed to help replace trainee delivered care in acute paediatrics at St John’s with
care delivered by trained staff.
St John’s Hospital has a fourteen-bedded inpatient ward and provides outpatient facilities, Level 1
neonatal facilities and supports paediatric surgery in the hospital. There is a consultant of the week
system for acute paediatrics. The consultant of the week and the on call consultant (out of hours)
are supported by a hybrid middle grade rota comprising a mixture of consultants with resident out
of hours shifts in the job plan, a specialty doctor, an advanced nurse practitioner, advanced
neonatal nurse practitioners and locums. There is an FY2 rota for medical paediatrics.
The inpatient ward, assessment unit and programmed investigation unit are located together on
the Childrens’ Ward and staffed by the same cohort of nurses and an advanced nurse practitioner.
There is access to AHP input as required. The Children’s Community Nurses are based on the
ward and this facilitates transition of patients between acute and community services.
There are outpatient clinics (c 4000-5000 attendances per annum) for general paediatrics and all
sub-specialties. These are delivered by consultants based at St John’s with a specialty interest,
colleagues from RHSC or commonly as shared clinics. There is a busy assessment and
ambulatory care unit, a programmed investigation unit. There are around 1000 inpatient
admissions per year. There are 2600-2700 births per year at St John’s (32+ weeks gestation) and
c 110 admission to the SCBU.
At RHSC all specialties are provided along with surgical, anaesthetic, radiological and intensive
care support. There are two medical paediatric wards at RHSC with 35 beds in total where most
medical patients are admitted. One of these wards is the Acute Receiving Unit (ARU). There is a
six-bedded High Dependency Unit linked to an eight-bedded Paediatric Intensive Care Unit. There
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is also a neurosciences ward, an oncology haematology ward, several surgical wards and a
programmed investigation unit. There are around 40000 outpatient attendances and 9000 inpatient
episodes.
Career Grade Members of the Department
St Johns
Dr Mariwan Babani, Consultant Paediatrician with an interest in Gastroenterology
Dr Karen Barclay, Associate Specialist with an interest in Neonatology
Dr David Cordiner, Consultant Paediatrician with an interest in Allergy
Dr Julie Duncan, Consultant Paediatrician with an interest in Rheumatology
Dr Elizabeth Eaton, Specialty Doctor
Dr Dzung Nguyen, Consultant Paediatrician with an interest in Cardiology
Dr Rajeeb Rashid, Consultant Paediatrician with an interest in Diabetes
Dr Helen Rhodes, Consultant Paediatrician with an interest in Allergy
Dr Aniela Tybulewicz, Consultant Paediatrician with an interest in Gastroenterology
Dr David Valentine, Consultant Paediatrician with an interest in Neurology
Vacancy
RHSC
Dr P Eunson, Consultant Neurologist, Clinical Director
Dr R Ardill, Consultant Paediatrician with an interest in Nephrology
Dr L Bath, Consultant Paediatrician with an interest in Endocrinology and Diabetes
Dr D Broomfield Consultant Paediatrician with an interest in Emergency Medicine
Dr D C Brown, Consultant Paediatrician with an interest in Ambulatory Paediatrics
Dr A Chillingworth, Consultant Community Paediatrician
Dr S Clegg, Consultant Community Paediatrician
Dr S Cunningham, Consultant Respiratory Paediatrician
Dr A Dall, Consultant Paediatrician
Dr D Devadason, Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist
Dr P Gillett, Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist
Dr L Jones, Consultant Paediatrician with an interest in Infectious Diseases/Immunology/HIV
Dr S Joseph, Consultant Paediatrician and Associate Director of Medical Education
Dr C Kirk, Consultant Community Paediatrician
Dr L Logie Consultant Community Paediatrician
Dr T G Marshall, Consultant Paediatrician with an interest in Respiratory Medicine
Dr D Mitchell, Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist
Dr M Stark, Consultant Paediatrician with an interest in Acute General Paediatrics
Dr J Stephen Consultant Paediatrician (outpatients)
Dr D Urquhart, Consultant Respiratory Paediatrician
Other career grade paediatric staff
Dr Nke Nwafor, Specialty Doctor medical paediatrics
Dr Andrew Fall, Specialty Doctor Cystic Fibrosis
Dr Alex Baxter, Consultant in Paediatric Neurodisability
Dr Mark Brougham, Consultant Oncologist
Dr Alison Cozens, Consultant in Metabolic Medicine
Dr Joyce Davidson, Consultant Rheumatologist
Dr Angela Edgar, Consultant Oncologist
Dr Lesley Simpson, Specialty Doctor Oncology
Dr Emma Johnson, Associate Specialist in Oncology
Dr Ailsa McLellan, Consultant Paediatric Neurologist
Dr Shona Mair, Associate Specialist Haematology
Dr Kathryn Noyes, Associate Specialist in Diabetes
Dr Kamath Tallur, Consultant Paediatric Neurologist
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Professor Jurgen Schwarze, Professor of Child Life and Health
Dr Angela Thomas, Consultant Haematologist
Professor Hamish Wallace, Consultant Oncologist
Dr Mary Cruickshank, Consultant Rheumatologist
Professor David Wilson, Professor of in Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
Administrative Support
Access to a desk and desktop computer in a shared office.
Community Child Health Services in Lothian (CCH)
NHS Lothian provides Child Health Services based on an integrated and combined model. There
are close links with Primary Care and with the Local Authorities.
There are strong professional links between the Acute and Community Paediatric Services and the
University Department. Consultant paediatricians working in community paediatrics also have
close links with a teaching hospital, an academic Department of Child Health and regional
paediatric services based within the community as well as the hospital.
The CCH service covers the geographical boundaries of Edinburgh City, Midlothian, East Lothian
and West Lothian. The Community Child Health services in Lothian are managed as a single
service. The current administrative bases are situated in:
10 Chalmers Crescent, for the City of Edinburgh;
Musselburgh Primary Care Centre, for East and Midlothian;
St John’s Hospital for West Lothian.
The Department is working towards an equitable service for children throughout Lothian.
The school health service is nurse led, with secondary level care provided by Associate Specialist
and Specialty Doctors (SASG doctors) supported by consultant paediatricians. Acknowledged
priorities are children with additional support needs and vulnerable children, including those
requiring protection.
The Department has good working relationships with education, social work, the police force and
the voluntary sector. Clinical practice is supported by long term and extensive experience using a
computerised Support Needs System database which contains between 2,500-3,000 children with
additional support needs, the majority of whom have a neurodisability. This affords both excellent
opportunities for clinical administration and management but also for audit and research.
Pre-school multidisciplinary child development clinics are delivered in the Royal Hospital for Sick
Children, in the four geographical localities in the city of Edinburgh and in East and Midlothian.
West Lothian has a fully equipped Child Development Centre.
The specialist child protection service is based within Community Child Health and provides health
input into interagency referral discussions with senior police and social work colleagues for all
children where concerns about any form of abuse or neglect have been raised. Where indicated,
comprehensive medical assessments, specialist medical examinations and joint paediatric forensic
examinations are carried out urgently or electively through regular SCAN clinics at RHSC, St
John’s Hospital or at a Police facility. The child protection teams include Child Protection Advisors,
SASG doctors and Consultant Paediatricians plus trainees.
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NHS Lothian is committed to the development of a consultant led service across general
paediatrics whether delivered in the hospital or community setting. The specialist services led by
consultants within the Community Child Health Department include:
Child Development
Educational Medicine
Physical Impairment including neurodisability
Communication Disorders including Autistic Spectrum Disorders
Child Protection
Looked After and Accommodated Children
Learning Disability
Visual Impairment
Hearing Impairment
Children with complex and exceptional healthcare needs
There are complex needs schools across Edinburgh, East, Mid and West Lothian, supported by
school nurses, paediatric therapists, SASG doctors and Consultants.
Presently there are 11 Consultants (9.9 WTE) in post, 14 Associate Specialists (10.4 WTE) and 11
Specialty Doctors (8.4 WTE) in the Edinburgh, West Lothian, East and Midlothian Department of
Community Child Health.
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)
CAMHS is managed with a separate Mental Health Directorate but there are close working
relationships with Children’s Services and out patient services are delivered at both RHSC and St
John’s. The inpatient unit will move to a combined new build with RHSC in 2017.
6. Details of the Post
Responsible for undertaking the administrative duties associated with the care of medical
paediatric patients, the administration of wards and clinics, participating in the day-to-day
management of the unit and the on-call service, sharing duties with the existing consultants.
Adequate access to desk and computer and secretarial support will be provided.
Annual and study leave are granted in accordance with the Terms and Conditions of the Scottish
Consultant Contract. If required travel time will be built in to the job plan in accordance with the
Terms and Conditions.
Facilities for refreshments and a rest room are available when working out of hours shifts.
As there is no on call from home in the job plan the person appointed does not need to live within
10 miles or 30 minutes of the hospital.
RHSC will move to a new site on the RIE campus in 2017.
This is an Exposure Prone Post and evidence of the relevant immunities will be required before
starting work.
7. Research and Development
There is an academic department of Child Life and Health with an active research programme led
by Professor Jurgen Schwarze. There are opportunities for individual or collaborative research and
development within the service. Areas of particular interest include neurosciences (perinatal brain
injury, clinical and epidemiological aspects of epilepsy in childhood), gastroenterology
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(inflammatory bowel disease and complex nutrition), respiratory (cystic fibrosis, bronchiolitis and
rare respiratory disease in children) and endocrinology.
8. Teaching
The service has a prominent role in teaching undergraduates and postgraduates. The post-holder
will contribute to the undergraduate teaching programme and to the teaching of trainee medical
staff. You will participate in audit projects, which are regularly undertaken within the general
medical paediatric department.
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9. Job Plan
NHS Lothian Notional Job Plan
Name:
Specialty:
Principal place of work:
Contract:
Availability supplement:
Programmed activities:
Availability supplement:
Managerially accountable to:
a)
Medical paediatrics
St Johns
Full Time
Not applicable
10 PA
9.0 DCC PA; 1.0 SPA
N/A
Clinical Director of Paediatrics, NHS Lothian
Timetable of activities that have a specific location and time
The night and weekend commitment at St Johns is to general paediatrics and neonatal cover
for the obstetric unit.
Nights and weekends will be resident.
The night and weekend work will amount to an average on a 1:9 basis with prospective cover.
It comprises six sets of nights Monday-Thursday, six sets of weekend nights Friday-Sunday
and six sets of weekend day shifts Saturday and Sunday.
There is no requirement to provide on call from home in addition to the resident out of hours
work and no expectation that the person appointed will need to do this in future.
The consultant on call from home will provide advice as required and attend when necessary
due to the workload or the complexity/degree of illness of any patients within the service.
Follow up is taken on by the consultant of the week.
As well as the resident night shifts at St Johns, the detailed weekly timetable will include
outpatient clinics at St Johns.
There are opportunities to develop a special interest in an area of paediatrics at RHSC such as
respiratory paediatrics, gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition, community child health,
neurology, neurodisability, high dependency paediatrics, emergency medicine and diabetes or
within neonatology at the Simpson’s Centre for Reproductive Health and this will be
accommodated within the NHS Lothian service. It is accepted that the resident out of hours
work will mean that this cannot be a fixed commitment every week.
An interest in rheumatology would be welcome.
Resident nights or weekends
4.5 DCC PA
General paediatric outpatient clinic
per annum)
1.0 DCC PA (≈ 35 clinics
Ward Cover
1.5 DCC PA
Special interest work
2.0 DCC PA
SPA
1.0 SPA
Total
9.0 DCC PA: 1 SPA.
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The attached job plan in its present form describes a 9:1 split between direct clinical care and
supporting professional activities. NHS Lothian allocates all consultants one SPA for CPD,
audit, clinical governance, appraisal, revalidation job planning and routine internal
communication and management meetings. As a major teaching and research contributor it
would normally expect to allocate additional SPA time for activities to do with undergraduate
education, educational supervision of trainee medical staff, research and other activities.
These are all areas where NHS Lothian has a strong commitment and we recognise the
contribution that consultants are both willing and eager to make. The precise allocation of
SPA time and associated objectives will be agreed with the successful applicant. An increase
to more than 1.0 SPA will require a reduction in clinical commitments or the allocation of extra
programmed activities.
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Contact Details
Dr David Valentine, Consultant Paediatrician RHSC. 01506 523000;
david.valentine@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk
Dr Paul Eunson, Clinical Director of Paediatrics, NHS Lothian. 0131 536 0000
paul.eunson@luht.scot.nhs.uk
Dr Edward Doyle
Associate Divisional Medical Director
edward.doyle@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk
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Person Specification
Person specification for Consultant Paediatrician
Requirements
Qualifications and training
Essential
Fully registered with the GMC with
a license to practice.
On the specialist register for
paediatrics or within six months of
being eligible for the specialist
register at time of interview.
Evidence of competence in
paediatric resuscitation.
Level 2 child protection training or
equivalent.
Appropriate advanced paediatric
and neonatal life support
certification.
Desirable
MRCPCH or equivalent.
Relevant higher degree
Level 3 child protection
training.
Experience
Wide range of experience in
general and acute paediatrics.
Training and experience in
neonatal resuscitation.
Competent to provide consultant
cover for a SCBU.
Additional training in
rheumatology
Ability
Ability to take responsibility for
management of patients.
Understanding of the paediatric
Scottish Patient Safety
Programme and commitment to its
aims.
Understanding of the principles of
medical research and ability to
critically assess evidence.
Academic achievements
Publications/ Presentations
Teaching and audit
Demonstrable experience of
participation in clinical audit and
implementation of its findings.
Motivation
Evidence of commitment to
patient focused care, continuous
professional development,
effective and efficient use of
resources.
Personal attributes
Able to work in a team with
Able to motivate
colleagues in own and other
colleagues
disciplines
Effective interpersonal skills
Well organised and with good time
management skills.
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Experience in training
undergraduate medical
students and postgraduate
doctors.
Formal qualification in
medical education.
Training the trainers
course
Flexible and adaptable.
Revised Medical and Dental HR December 2009
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