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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.
The successful applicant will join a dynamic team of 4 Consultant Paediatric Surgeons based in the Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital (RACH), within the Combined Child Health Service of NHS Grampian. The post is for 40 hours per week, fixed term for 6 months. They will be based at RACH and will provide a range of General Paediatric Surgical and Neonatal Services to children and young people living in Grampian. They will also contribute to service elsewhere in the North of Scotland including the Highlands and the Shetland and Orkney Islands. They will work as part of a team of 5 Paediatric Surgeons contributing to the acute out of hours rota. A “surgeon of the week” system is in place to cover the daytime acute service. They will undertake clinics in RACH and in peripheral hospitals.
RACH has a total of 93 beds, providing specialist inpatient and outpatient care in Medical Paediatrics and its sub-specialities, General Paediatric Surgery and Urology, Orthopaedic and Plastic Surgery, ENT, Dermatology, Orthodontics, Ophthalmology, Clinical Genetics and Child and Family Psychiatry.
There is an onsite Maternity Hospital and a Level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and full range of Neonatal Surgery is provided with the exception of cardiac.
RACH has its own Accident and Emergency Department under direct Consultant supervision. There are approximately 8000 attendances annually of which two thirds are acute admissions. It is also a designated Paediatric Major Trauma Centre.
The Medical Paediatric service provides general and specialty paediatric inpatient and outpatient care for elective and emergency patients. The Departments of Community Child Health, Paediatric Psychology and the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) are also co-located within RACH.
Applicants must hold the FRCS(Paed), or equivalent.
Full registration with a licence to practise with the GMC is required. (licence to practise must be in place prior to starting in post). For more information visit www.gmc-uk.org
Please contact us to find out more and we would be pleased to organise visits for interested applicants.
Further information is available from:
Mr Yatin Patel, Surgical Service Clinical Director, RACH (01224) 551746
Apply for this post by visiting apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk and search for the above Ref No.
Closing date: Sunday 31 May 2026
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES
As from 1/4/26, the Agenda for Change full-time working week will be reducing from 37 to 36 hours per week. Part time hours will be reduced pro-rata. However, there will be a corresponding increase in the hourly rate so that pay will not be affected.
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