Job Description

We require a full-time 10PA Consultant in Paediatric Surgery with a special interest in Paediatric Oncology Surgery. The successful applicant with work alongside the current consultant team to provide outpatient and inpatient services at Alder Hey. They will also be expected to provide services at one or more partner hospitals. They will join the sub-specialty Paediatric Oncology team. Oncology experience is of particular importance and recent sub-specialty exposure in this area is desirable. The candidate must have or be within 6 months if expecting to be awarded, CCT or equivalent in Paediatric neonatal Surgery.



The post is a locum for 12 months in the first instance, with a start date of on or around 1 st April 2026.



The successful applicant will primarily work within the Department of Paediatric Surgery consisting of 12 Consultant Paediatric Surgeons, alongside a highly skilled specialist nursing team.



The post offers 10 PA's which consists of 8 Direct Clinical Care PAs, including specific PAs for on-call commitments in General Paediatric Surgery at Alder Hey Hospital, currently as part of a 1 in 10 rota, and 1 in 4 for the for oesophageal atresia/trachea-oesophageal fistula.



As one of Europe's biggest and busiest children's hospitals, at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, we treat everything from common illnesses to highly complex and specialist conditions. In addition to our main hospital site, we offer paediatric services at a number of community sites and hold local clinics across Merseyside, Cumbria, Shropshire, Wales and the Isle of Man. We also provide specialist inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs in our recently relocated and newly opened state of the art facility.



Alder Hey has a thriving research portfolio and leads research into children's medicines, infection, inflammation and oncology. We are becoming recognised as one of the world's leaders in children's healthcare and research. We contribute to public health, lead cutting-edge research and teach the next generation of children's specialists. Alongside this is our Innovation Hub, a dedicated space where clinicians and industries can come together to create new products and technologies.



We know that a children's hospital is different and that our job is more than just treating an illness. To us, every child is an individual. As well as giving them the very best care, we set out to make them feel happy, safe and confident as they play, learn and grow. At Alder Hey we are here to look after a child and their family and that includes mums, dads, brothers and sisters.



The successful candidate will work alongside the current consultant team in providing emergency and elective paediatric surgery. Emergency duties will be according to a rota of approximately 1 in 10 FTE (with the appointment of this post) and include the full range of emergency paediatric and neonatal surgery. The sub-specialty OA/TOF rota will be a 1 in 4 commitment, which is recognised with a PA allocation and on-call availability supplement.



Emergency daytime consultant cover Monday to Friday is by a designated 'Surgeon of the Week' who does not have elective scheduled activity and provides continuity of care for children presenting as emergencies. This week includes input to neonatal surgical patients both at Alder Hey and Liverpool Women's Hospital, where three times weekly ward rounds are provided. An additional '2nd On' consultant provides 24 hour on-call emergency cover including split weekends (Fri/Sun and Sat) with a rest day following. There is a regular lines list which the successful candidate will be expected to participate in.



Elective activity will include both outpatient and inpatient service at Alder Hey and at partner hospital(s) with whom we hold Service Level Agreements including Glan Clwyd Hospital, Blackpool Victoria Hospital, Royal Preston Hospital, Stoke University Hospital, Arrowe Park, Warrington, Leighton, Wrexham, Chester, Bangor and Ormskirk Hospitals.