Consultant in Paediatric ENT surgery

Employer Alder Hey Children\’s NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Alder Hey Children\’s NHS Foundation Trust Town Liverpool Salary £105,504 – £139,882 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 08/08/2025 23:59 Interview date 22/10/2025

Consultant in Paediatric ENT surgery

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.

We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.

As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.

You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Children\’s NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:

• Great flexible working opportunities
• Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• Extensive staff health and well-being programmes

Job overview

Applications are invited for this full-time Consultant in Paediatric ENT surgery with special interest in Head and Neck and Thyroid Surgery.

Main duties of the job

Please see the attached job description for further details.

Working for our organisation

As one of Europe’s biggest and busiest children’s hospitals, at Alder Hey Children\’s NHS Foundation Trust, we treat everything from common illnesses to highly complex and specialist conditions.In addition to our main hospital site, we offer paediatric services at a number of community sites and hold local clinics across Merseyside, Cumbria, Shropshire, Wales and the Isle of Man. We also provide specialist inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs in our recently relocated and newly opened state of the art facility.

Alder Hey has a thriving research portfolio and leads research into children’s medicines, infection, inflammation and oncology. We are becoming recognised as one of the world’s leaders in children’s healthcare and research. We contribute to public health, lead cutting-edge research and teach the next generation of children’s specialists. Alongside this is ourInnovation Hub, a dedicated space where clinicians and industries can come together to create new products and technologies.

We know that a children’s hospital is different and that our job is more than just treating an illness. To us, every child is an individual. As well as giving them the very best care, we set out to make them feel happy, safe and confident as they play, learn and grow. At Alder Hey we are here to look after a child and their family and that includes mums, dads, brothers and sisters.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description for further details.

Person specification

Education and training

• – Full GMC registration, licence to practice and specialist registration in ENT (or eligible for or within 6 months of eligibility for)
• – Primary medical degree
• – CCT or within 6 months of CCT (or equivalent)
• – Higher Degree e.g. MSc
• – DCH, DCCH, MBA or other relevant diplomas
• – Teaching qualification

Experience

• – Wide experience of the specialty sufficient to enable safe independent specialist ENT expertise and practice
• – Evidence of having completed a clinical fellowship in paediatric otolaryngology
• – Evidence of subspecialist interest in paediatric head and neck and thyroid surgery
• – Demonstration of research experience (publications in peer reviewed journals, presentations at national and international meetings)
• – Evidence of ability to work with surgical MDT colleagues, in particular Adult Thyroid Surgeons

Skills

• – Teaching skills and experience
• – Ability to supervise the clinical work of doctors in training and other staff
• – Oral and written communication skills in English
• – Ability to organise and prioritise personal workload and that of others.
• – Ability to build effective relationships and work collaboratively with staff at all levels of the organisation. Ability to relate to patients and carers from a wide range of backgrounds and to empathise with their needs and concerns.
• – Evidence of being a team player and effective communicator as part of a multiagency team
• – Leadership: ability to develop a vision and lead the change that brings it into effect within a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency context
• – Effective time management, able to work under pressure
• – Well-developed reflective and self-care skills and able to foster these attributes in others
• – Ability to share knowledge and difficulties with colleagues
• – Prior evidence of involvement in undergraduate and postgraduate educational activities
• – Involvement in clinical governance activities

Personal Attributes

• – Self-motivated to set and achieve targets
• – Flexible in regards to teamwork
• – Effective member of multidisciplinary team
• – Demonstrable evidence of ongoing commitment to personal and professional development
• – Demonstrable evidence of ongoing commitment to the development of a high quality service
• – Flexible, adaptable, thorough and resilient
• – Demonstrable evidence of ongoing commitment to clinical governance
• – Ability to cope with stressful situations

Knowledge

• – Entry on the specialist register
• – Understanding of NHS and Local Authority structures and systems
• – Understanding of risk governance systems and reporting mechanisms
• – Understanding of principles of research governance
• – Ability to organise and manage waiting lists and patient priorities
• – Evidence of career interest in paediatric head and neck and thyroid surgery

Other

• – An exceptional practitioner who is able to demonstrate ambition for themselves, the team and the service.
• – Membership of appropriate professional groups

We reserve the right to close vacancies without notice when we have received a sufficient number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply regularly as we will contact you using this regarding your application. All candidates will be notified via email whether or not they have been shortlisted.
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are committed to creating a well-managed, flexible working environment that supports staff and promotes their welfare and development. We actively promote equality and diversity and operate a Zero Tolerance policy to aggression, violence, bullying and harassment.

Should you require any assistance during the application stages please contact recruiting manager of vacancy or the recruitment team at or call 0151 282 4599

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Please note, the selection processes at Alder Hey Children\’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right skills and values, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain vigilant against candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn’t accurately reflect their skills.

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