General Paediatric Consultant, interest in Spinal Perioperative Care

General Paediatric Consultant, interest in Spinal Perioperative Care

The closing date is 25 January 2026

Evelina London is seeking a 6PA consultant paediatrician, to work embedded within the paediatric spinal service, to lead on the development of robust, holistic pre-operative medical support for complex children undergoing spinal surgery.

The paediatric spinal service at Evelina is expanding. The majority of children and young people undergoing surgery are medically complex. The appointed candidate will work closely with the established spinal team in developing the service to ensure individualised, holistic and high quality care. The candidate will provide medical input to the current pre-assessment pathway and lead on pre-operative MDT meetings. The appointed candidate would be expected to lead on the developments of pathways and guidelines and deliver education, training and support to members of the spinal multi-disciplinary team.

The postholder will join the general paediatric service who will provide oversight of the care they provide and ensure professional development and appraisal and will contribute to the delivery of general paediatric care. They will also work closely with the general paediatricians and other members of the MDT who make up the Evelina Compass Team, who will provide proactive medical input for medically complex post-operative spinal patients.

The successful candidate would work across the Medical and Surgical Directorates in Evelina London and will work closely with the Head of Service for Paediatric Spine and Lead Spine Anaesthetist in the development of the spinal perioperative service.

Caring for more than 95,000 babies, children and young people each year, Evelina London Children's Healthcare provides comprehensive health services from before birth, throughout childhood and into adult life. ELCH is part of Guys and St Thomas' Foundation Trust which is among the UK's busiest and most successful NHS foundation Trusts.

The Evelina London Children's Hospital provide a large range of local hospital and community services for children in South London, Lambeth and Southwark, as well as an almost comprehensive range of specialist services for children with rare and complex conditions from across South London, Kent, Surrey and Sussex.

It is the 1st children's hospital in the UK to be rated as 'Outstanding' by the Quality Care Commission. It is the 2nd largest provider of children's hospital services in London. Our vision is to be a world leading centre of life-changing care for children, young people and their families. We want to improve the lives of children and young people by:

• Applying consistently outstanding life-enhancing healthcare
• Educating and training people to deliver effective child-centred care and treatment
• Undertaking research that adds to knowledge about how to improve child health and change practice

ELCH has over 150 inpatient beds plus a further 52 neonatal cots in the North Wing adjacent to maternity services, on the St Thomas' Hospital site. There are also a number of other dedicated facilities for children's services within St.Thomas'.

Role includes:

• Development of paediatric peri-operative spinal service
• Targeted pre-operative holistic medical review alongside anaesthetic colleagues and other specialist teams as part of existing pre-assessment pathway
• Active involvement in discussion and decision making as to whether and when surgery is in best interests of child and family
• Specialist medical input into the optimisation of patients medically pre-surgery
• Active participation in Spinal MDT meetings
• Leading on the development of inpatient guidelines, education and training
• To provide general paediatric services to the Guys and St Thomas Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
• High dependency care and patient safety
• Education and training
• Research
• Quality improvement and audit
• Clinical and educational supervision

See Job description and person spec for further details.

• MRCPCH or equivalent
• On the GMC's Specialist register OR within six months of CCT at time of scheduled interview (
  
  Note:
  
  CESR applicants must be on the Specialist register at the point of application)
• MD or PhD

• Comprehensive clinical experience in General Paediatrics
• If UK trained, must have minimum of 2 years training / experience in General Paediatrics
• Valid APLS training or APLS instructor status
• Ability to work as an effective member of a multidisciplinary team
• Excellent communication skills and an ability to communicate effectively with colleagues; both clinical and non-clinical, and with children and their carers / relatives.
• Experience of training junior medical staff in general paediatrics
• Experience in the management of complex paediatric patients
• Experience in the peri-operative management of complex surgical patients
• Experience in a relevant paediatric subspecialty. For example neurology, respiratory,…