Locum Consultant Paediatrician & Neonatologist

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Main area Paediatrics Grade NHS Medical & Dental:
Consultant Contract Locum: 12 months Hours Part time - 8 sessions per week (8 PA post with on-call commitments) Job  

Site Whiston Hospital Town Prescot Salary £109,725 - £145,478 per annum, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 29/01/2026 23:59

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We're looking for a Locum Consultant Paediatrician and Neonatologist to join our team on a part-time basis.

This job is for a locum 8PA Consultant in Paediatrics and Neonatology. It offers an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated medic to join a dynamic, rapidly expanding team delivering multidisciplinary acute care in Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals.

Applicants are required to hold membership of the Royal College of Paediatrics & Children's Health and to be fully registered with the General Medical Council.

Please note job description subject to change pending Royal College of Paediatrics & Children's Health approval.

The primary aim of the Paediatrics Department is to provide the best possible quality of acute medical care. This includes services for the newborn as well as the care of children and young people. Our philosophy of care is one of quality, both in excellence of medical care and in the flexibility of service provision.

The person appointed will be one of a team of 10 Consultants who share the emergency on a rota basis (1 in 10 weekend and weekday on-call).

They will undertake duties as Paediatrician of the Week and Neonatologist as well as leading General Paediatric, Ambulatory and Eating Disorder clinics.

The post holder is expected to participate in SPA and DCC activities as well as department based meetings for governance and audit and to supervise .

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

Our services:

Acute Care

Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.

Primary Care

Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.

Community Services

Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.

Specialist Regional Services

We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

Achievements:

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme.

You will be expected to undertake…