Paediatric Consultant with a Specialist Interest in Palliative Care

We are seeking a permanent Consultant Paediatric with a specialist interest in Palliative Care to join our expanding team at Staffordshire Children's Hospital at Royal Stoke. This is a 9-session substantive post (9 PAs) with a 1 in 12 commitment to the general paediatric on-call rota, including cover for the Children's Assessment Unit (CAU) and inpatient wards. The post holder will contribute to the development of the Paediatric Palliative Care Service, support general paediatrics, and participate in teaching, audit, and service improvement.

This post is based at Staffordshire Children's Hospital at Royal Stoke which is part of the University

Hospitals of North Midlands (UHNM) NHS Trust. The paediatric department at UHNM primarily delivers acute paediatric care to the local children of Staffordshire and beyond., Staffordshire Children's Hospital is part of UHNM which has two sites: Royal Stoke University Hospital, located in Stoke-on-Trent, and County Hospital, located in Stafford. The Staffordshire Children's Hospital is based at the Royal Stoke site, all inpatient services for children are there. Outpatient clinics run at both sites.

The Paediatric Department is one of the largest in the country with a number of sub speciality areas receiving tertiary care referrals. The Trust has a purpose built Children's Centre comprising of inpatient wards, Children's A&E and admissions unit and outpatients department adjacent to the Child Development Centre. The Child Health Directorate provides a wide range of services encompassing acute paediatrics, paediatric and neonatal intensive care, outpatients and community paediatrics. We also provide consultant support to the children's emergency centre and deliver a range of paediatric general and speciality clinics on the County Hospital site.