Locum Consultant in Paediatric Spinal

Main area Paediatric Orthopaedics Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant Contract Fixed term: 12 months (12 month locum) Hours

• Full time
• Part time

10 sessions per week (See attached job plan) Job ref 196-LCON1229

Employer Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Evelina London Children's Hospital Town London Salary 10PAs Closing 31/10/ :00

Locum Consultant in Paediatric Spinal

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Guys and St Thomas' is among the UK's busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

Guys is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas' has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children's Hospital.

Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long‑term conditions.

Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guys and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world‑leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world‑renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world‑leading research.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King's Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King's College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.

The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.

Job overview

The ELCH Children's Surgery, Theatres and Anaesthesia (CSTA) Directorate is seeking a full-time locum Paediatric Spinal Consultant proficient in the management of children with elective spinal needs. They will work with an experienced and supportive multidisciplinary team within the Evelina to provide optimal surgical care to children who may have complex spinal problems and complex comorbidities. The consultant would be expected to have experience in the management for all aetiologies of paediatric spinal deformities covering congenital, neuromuscular/syndromic, osteochondrodytrophies, mesenchymal disorders, NF, and spondylolysis and spondylolisthesis.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate would work with the multidisciplinary teams in the Paediatric setting to develop services within the region. The post holder would be joining a large paediatric spine service of 5 consultants performing 145 to 180 paediatric spinal deformity operations a year.

Working for our organisation

Guys and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT) is made up of two of London's best known teaching hospitals. It employs over 17,500 staff with over 1 million patient contacts a year. Evelina London Children's Healthcare (ELCH) provides services for children both in our state of the art hospital, and in our community services within Lambeth and Southwark. We have an annual turnover of £170 million and over 2,000 staff. Last year children's services at GSTT delivered 125,000 outpatient appointments, and 26,000 children were cared for as inpatients in the children's hospital.

ELCH is the second largest provider of acute hospital care for children in London. We provide secondary‑level children's hospital services to the local communities of Lambeth and Southwark, and a wide-ranging portfolio of tertiary‑level services to South London and South East England. ELCH is proud to provide quaternary‑level care in a number of fields to children across the UK.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

See the attached Job Description and Person Specification for the detailed job description and main responsibilities.

Person specification

Professional Qualifications

• Adult and Paediatric Spinal Fellowship minimum of two year to include a significant proportion of paediatric spinal deformity surgery
• FRCS(Orth) or equivalent
• Full GMC Registration with entry on the Specialist Register, or within 3 months of CCST.
• Evidence of continuing professional / personal development.
• Evidence of Management Training
• Evidence of Teaching Training

Clinical Experience

• Demonstrable experience of paediatric spinal deformity reconstructive surgery and evidence of specialist training in this field.
• Significant experience of adult spinal surgery sufficient to support transition of care service of paediatric patients as into adulthood.
• A third year of paediatric and or adult spinal fellowship/training

Research and Audit

• Record of clinical governance, audit, management and IT skills
• A demonstrable aptitude for participating in departmental research goals.
• Involvement in and completion of clinical audits
• Evidence of original research and publication.

Teaching skill and experience

• Experience of teaching and training undergraduates, postgraduates and junior medical staff.
• Teaching qualification

Guys and St Thomas' celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or studies at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.

Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.

As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.

We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.

Due to recent changes inthe UK immigration rules which affect Skilled Worker Visas, Global Business Mobility, Higher Skill Level and Increased Salary Thresholds, please ensure that you are able to meet the requirements to live and work in the UK before applying. Further informationabout eligibilityis available on the UK Government website.

Your e-mail address is important to us -We communicate to all job applicants via the e-mail address which has been provided on the application form. Please ensure that you check your e-mail on a regular basis.

General enquiries, about the job or for an informal discussion about this post should be directed to Mr Tom Ember, Head of Service, Consultant Orthopaedic and Spine Surgeon via email (t (emailprotected) ) and Dr Lance Tooke ( ,net).

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