Trust Doctor in Paediatric Surgery & Urology

Trust Doctor in Paediatric Surgery & Urology

The closing date is 16 March 2026

Applications are invited for Trust Doctor within Paediatric Surgery - Registrar Doctor ST3-5 level, the post is for 4 months from April 2026 - August 2026 with potential to extend. This post is suitable for surgeons who have completed their Core Surgical Training and are looking for experience in Paediatric Surgery. Applicants must be fully registered practitioners who have completed basic surgical training. Possession of Higher Qualifications (preferably MRCS or equivalent) is essential.

Main duties of the job

The post will enable the service to maintain an adequate level of Paediatric Surgery activity and on-call cover and will be an excellent opportunity for candidates looking gain further experience in the speciality. This post is a service post and will not be recognised for training. The successful post holder must have full registration with the General Medical Council. This is based at HRI and W&CH hospitals with the responsibility for the care of inpatients, outpatients and emergency admitted during the daytime and when on call. The appointee will work at the Specialist Registrar level ST3-6. Out of hours, the appointee will work on the Registrar rota (1:5), including prospective cover. Standard contracted hours 48 per week plus on call for Registrar rota including prospective cover.

About us

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.

Job responsibilities

For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification Professional Registration

• oFull Registration with the GMC

Qualifications and Training

• oValid ALS certificate
• oPostgraduate qualification in Education or significant experience in post graduate training

Clinical Experience

• oAbility to offer sound clinical opinion on range of acute medical conditions
• oAbility to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients

Management and Administration Experience

• oAbility to lead on smooth and efficient running of the unit
• oAbility to organise, prioritise and manage high intensity workload
• oAbility to develop, present and operationalise coherent ideas for service development/ delivery

Teaching, Audit and Research

• oExperience of supervising junior medical staff
• oCommitment to formal and informal teaching of medical staff, AHPs and medical students
• oEvidence of participation in audit
• oAbility to extrapolate clinical research evidence to care for individual patients
• oEvidence of having conducted a practice changing audit
• oExperience of teaching/ training in clinical courses e.g. IMPACT Course, Faculty, ALS Instructor, ALERT Instructor
• oOriginal peer reviewed research publications

Personal Attributes

• oAbility to work flexibly in a changing health service
• oExcellent manner with patients, being sensitive to their needs and fears
• oAbility to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GPs, Nurses and other health professionals and flex style as appropriate
• oWillingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional and national levels
• oWillingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional and national levels

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.