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The Women & Children’s Directorate (An Acute Operating Division of Greater Glasgow & Clyde, NHS Board) is a world leader in the care of child and maternal health services. Located in the new south hospitals complex in Glasgow, the Royal Hospital for Children hosts many national and regional specialist services.
The Directorate also supports an extensive array of community child health services.
The New Children’s Hospital opened in June 2015. This new consultant post will be a replacement post, ultimately maintaining a team of 6 consultants within the department of paediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition (PGHN).
This post has been created to lead the paediatric inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) service in Glasgow, to maintain and develop our reputation for excellence in this clinical area, and to support the departmental workload in PGHN care in a dynamic, research active and internationally recognised department.
Candidates should be trained in general paediatrics and should have spent at least 3 years in approved posts/programmes in PGHN Candidates should also be able to provide evidence of a major clinical +/- research interest in IBD and be able to demonstrate leadership, innovative practice and the development of high standards of care against benchmarks in this area of practice. They should also be able to demonstrate their ability to work as part of the wider multidisciplinary team with evidence of engagement in service development initiatives across all disciplines.
Applicants must have full registration with the General Medical Council and a licence to practice medicine in the UK.
Those trained in the UK should have evidence of higher specialist training leading to CCT (or be within six months of CCT from the date of interview) or have equivalent training and experience. Non-UK applicants must demonstrate equivalent training.
A split of 9:1 between direct clinical care PAs and supporting professional activities is now the advertised standard for all new consultant job plans in Scotland. The one minimum will reflect activity such as appraisal, personal audit and professional development occurring outside study leave time. Once the candidate has been appointed, more time may be agreed for activities such as undergraduate and postgraduate medical training, which takes place outside direct clinical care, as well as research, service development and/or management. These activities must be specifically and clearly identified and be agreed with the candidate and desired by the department.