Trust Doctor in Community Child Health (ST1-2 equivalent)


Company:	The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£54,499 per annum
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Queen Victoria Road, NE1 4LP
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	6 Aug 2026
Closing date:	10 Sept 2026

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Summary

A Vacancy at The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well-integrated team within the Community Child Health department.

Our medical team consists of 6 Consultant Paediatricians and we also have Paediatric Speciality Trainees working within the team. We work alongside Nurse Specialists for Children in Care, Autism, Epilepsy and Bladder and Bowel Health. We also work very closely with the Children’s Community Nursing team and allied health professionals including Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Speech and Language Therapists and Dieticians.

This post is full-time. Candidates who wish to work part-time or job share are welcome to apply. Candidates should possess GMC registration with a license to practice at time of application and have experience of working within the NHS.

The core roles and responsibilities of the post will be holding regular clinics to provide Initial Health Assessments for Children in Care and Child Development Clinics for children presenting with or requiring follow up for developmental differences. It will also include providing medical advice for children where there is an application to the local authority for an Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP). Once trained, the successful candidate will be expected to work independently in clinic with regular opportunity for case supervision and discussion as needed from our senior team. You will be working at ST1-2 equivalent level.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:

• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)

• Freeman Hospital

• Newcastle Dental Hospital

• Cramlington Manor Walks

• Urgent treatment centres

• Newcastle Fertility Centre

• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria

• Northern Genetics Service

These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.

We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.

For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

This is a fixed term post with the following aims

• Support the current clinical team in delivering Initial Health Assessments (IHA) for Children in Care, providing timely high-quality holistic assessments for children age 0-17 years.

• To support the wider work of the community paediatric department, contributing to developmental assessments and follow up of children with developmental differences, for example annual health checks for children with Down’s Syndrome and taking child development histories/autism focussed histories to support developemental assessments.

• To contribute to providing medical advice for the Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP) process

This advert closes on Monday 10 Aug 2026

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