Locum Consultant Paediatrician – Locum for 6 months

Locum Consultant Paediatrician

This General Paediatric locum post is available for a period of 6 months. This post is an exciting opportunity working within Specialist Children’s Health Service Unit to support service transformation through delivery of a range of high impact changes with a specific focus on improving patient flow and patient journey and focusing on Hospital at Home (Paediatrics) across NHS Lanarkshire. The successful post holder will join the existing Hospital at Home team, and will be involved in implementation of the service alongside continuing to develop/review existing service provision and to manage these patients.

It is an opportunity to support the local service, manage the acute paediatric service and support families in their own environment whilst providing hospital level care. We see this as an opportunity to consolidate existing services and to continue to develop as a centre of excellence in secondary paediatric care. We are looking for enthusiastic individuals to join our team who would relish the opportunities and challenges of delivering high quality care across Lanarkshire in both acute and community settings.

The successful candidate will work in Acute Paediatric services working with the current acute consultants, to identify, prepare and support the patients for hospital at home on a daily basis Monday to Friday 9-5 and to work both on inpatient and triage wards. They will have 2 hot weeks for per 6 months. They will work once per month weekend 2-8pm Saturday and Sunday providing cover for hospital at home and triage service. A session will be allocated for own appraisal (1 SPA) and appropriate admin time/service development. Hospital at home patients may need consultant review and this will be done by the successful applicant.

Proposals for additional SPA time from applicants are encouraged. In addition to the 1 PA for Non-DCC/SPA activities, the Board is supportive of applications for additional SPA time from individuals with well-developed ideas for improving services who are able to demonstrate a commitment to quality improvement, patient safety (including human factors training), Medical Education, Research & Development, acting as an Appraiser, etc. Applicants who are able to demonstrate a commitment to any of the above or other areas and wishing to commence on more than 1 PA for SPA duties should discuss proposals with the identified Recruitment Lead and/or Service Manager who will consider the request in line with the successful candidate’s professional and service requirements.

Interested candidates are encouraged to contact us for an informal discussion. Informal enquiries regarding this post will be welcomed by Dr Adrienne Sullivan – Paediatric Clinical Director on 01698 366318 Adrienne.Sullivan@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

For any application queries, please email Medical.dentalSAS@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

Interview date: 26th January 2026 PM

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