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The Royal Hospital for Children is excited to offer LAT posts in Paediatric Emergency Medicine at ST3+ level from February 2023 – August 2023. Start date could be flexible. These posts will based entirely within the paediatric emergency department.
These posts are to fill vacancies on the Emergency Medicine CT3 rota but would also be suitable for trainees in paediatrics, general practice or paediatric surgery. The successful applicants will work a full shift system in the Paediatric Emergency Department.
The post would offer the opportunity to gain valuable experience in a wide range of paediatric emergency presentations and would be relevant for those seeking a career in emergency medicine or paediatrics in the future.
The Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow
In order to provide child, maternal and adult services together on a single site, a new children’s hospital has been built as part of the new Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus located in the south of Glasgow, which opened in June 2015.
The Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow, is one of the largest paediatric teaching hospitals in the UK and the largest in Scotland. It provides secondary care for more than 900,000 people resident within the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area, but also tertiary care for the 3million people living across the West of Scotland. There are also 17 nationally designated services delivered from the hospital including cardiac surgery, bone marrow and renal transplantation, ECLS and complex airway supported by a 22 bed PICU.
The opening of the new Emergency Department has seen an increase in patient activity, with the centralisation of paediatric emergency care across Glasgow and a formal increase in the upper age limit of attenders to their 16th birthday. The new department now sees over 70,000 attenders/year and has a 4 bay resuscitation area with separate Majors and Minors areas. RHC became a major trauma centre in 2021.
All paediatric medical and surgical subspecialties are represented, including general medical paediatrics, cardiology, neonatology, neurology, nephrology, respiratory, endocrinology, gastroenterology, immunology and infectious diseases, dermatology, haematology/oncology, rheumatology, metabolic medicine, audiology, ophthalmology, ENT surgery, orthopaedics, cardiothoracic surgery, neurosurgery and general paediatric and neonatal surgery. A selection of child and adolescent psychiatry facilities are located within the hospital along with a Child Protection Unit.
The hospital provides the major Undergraduate Paediatric Teaching facility for the University of Glasgow. There is on site clinical audit and research and development support to assist with departmental research projects.
The Radiology Department located within RHC provides ultrasound, CT, MRI and isotope studies on site. All imaging is digital and accessed through the PACS system.
Diagnostic laboratory facilities are primarily located in a new build laboratory complex on the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus.
Applicants must have full GMC registration and a licence to practice.
NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.