Locum Consultant in Paediatric Surgery

Locum Consultant in Paediatric Surgery

The closing date is 19 February 2026.

Applications are invited for a Locum Consultant Paediatric Surgeon to join the team in Department of Paediatric Surgery and Urology at Birmingham Children's Hospital. This is a locum post, in the first instance but has the possibility of becoming substantive in 1 year.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is part of Birmingham Women & Children's NHS Foundation Trust. This comprises of 2 hospitals:
Birmingham Children's Hospital (BCH) and Birmingham Women's Hospital (BWH), and includes Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) providing CAMHS care. The hospital covers a population of over 5 million and provides secondary, tertiary and qua ternary services. It is a designated Paediatric Major Trauma centre.

Paediatric Surgical service covers neonatal and general paediatric surgery, as well as gastroenterology, oncology, colorectal surgery, minimally invasive surgery, major trauma and non-cardiac thoracic surgery.

The Department of Paediatric Surgery & Urology is made up of 13 Consultant Surgeons, 15 Tier 2 clinicians, 3 Clinical Nurses Specialist teams and 3 Physician Associates.

The Paediatric surgeons provide a comprehensive provision of Paediatric Surgical care - with the exception of HPB, which is provided separately within BCH.

Paediatric Surgeons take part in a Paediatric Surgery On-call rota, providing a 24/7 service. This rota includes a week on-call (including the weekend), and then a week of outreach (which includes nights on-call).

This is a locum post in paediatric surgery. The successful applicant will be expected to have a subspeciality interest in Colorectal surgery (including anorectal malformations, Hirschsprung Disease, Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) and intestinal failure and support in the provision of these areas of practice.

This is a 10 PA job, including both elective and on-call commitments. This post does not include the provision of any Specialist Paediatric Urology.

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work.

Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust.

When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).

Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.

• FRCS(Paed) or equivalentor overseas equivalent.
• Recognised Post CCT Fellowship in Paediatric Colorectal
• MD, PhD, MSc or equivalent

• Ability to manage full range of Paediatric Surgical cases.
• Ability to take full responsibility for clinical care of patients.
• Able to operate independently.
• Advanced laparoscopy experience
• Logbook to be available.
• Portfolio to be available.
• Ability to complete busy surgical on-call commitments.
• Experience of resident doctor supervision
• Definitive Trauma surgical skills course or equivalent
• Independent practice for outpatient perioperative and operative management of neonatal and colorectal cases
• Consultant experience within the UK.
• Consultant Paediatric Urology on-call experience within the UK.
• Current APLS or equivalent
• Sub-speciality interest and experience in lower GI/colorectal
• Evidence of membership of specialist organisations/groups e.g. BAPS
• Experience in management of resident doctors at Core and higher surgical level; experience of management of trainees in trouble.

• Co-operative
• Good at shared care
• Good team member
• Have…