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. 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.
Those trained in the UK should have evidence of higher specialist training leading to CCT or be within 6 months of confirmed entry on the GMC Specialist Register from date of interview.
CESR (Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration) or Portfolio Pathway route doctors are only eligible to apply for a substantive Consultant post once CESR or Portfolio Pathway specialist registration is awarded. Those with an International Recognised Specialist Qualification approved by GMC should have a confirmed entry on the GMC Specialist Register.
Applications from doctors with appropriate specialist training and experience who are not listed on the GMC Specialist Register can be considered for a Locum Consultant post (up to 12 months) if no substantive Consultant appointment is made. Whilst in locum employment, an application to obtain a CESR or Portfolio Pathway Specialist Registration can be made to the GMC.
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 29 April 2026
