Job summary
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Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an enthusiastic and committed Consultant Paediatrician to join our evolving Children and Young People's Gender Service (CYPGS). This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a multidisciplinary, holistic service supporting children and young people experiencing gender-related distress.

The post holder will play a key role in delivering specialist paediatric assessment and care, working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team including psychology, psychiatry, nursing, and allied health professionals. You will help shape and develop a responsive, evidence-informed service focused on the wellbeing, safety, and individual needs of young people and their families.

This dedicated community-based service provides timely access to multi-disciplinary assessment and intervention to children and young people from across the country, predominantly those in the north, up to the age of 18. The North West service works closely and aligns with other regional hubs already 'live' or currently in development.

Main duties of the job

• Provide comprehensive paediatric assessment and ongoing care for children and young people referred to the Gender Service
• Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to develop personalised care plans and improve pathways for children and young people
• Contribute to service development, clinical governance, and quality improvement initiatives
• Development of pathways and protocols to improve care for children with complex needs
• Participate in safeguarding processes and holistic risk assessment
• Support teaching, training, and supervision of junior medical staff and multidisciplinary colleagues
• Engage in research and service evaluation where appropriate

About us
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.

Details
Date posted: 11 September 2026
Pay scheme: Hospital medical and dental staff
Grade: Consultant
Salary: £113,565 to £150,569 a year per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Job share
Reference number: 411-GS-26-8013798-A
Job locations: Alder Hey Children's Hospital Trust, Liverpool, L14 5AB, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities
Clinical
Allowing for flexibility according to the skills of the successful applicant, the responsibilities will be as follows:

Clinical work will be particularly around: -

• Assessment and management of children and young people who are experiencing gender incongruence and who may benefit from clinical support
• Vulnerable children, children looked after
• Developmental delay
• Assessment and management of children with Neurodevelopmental disorders
• Behavioural problems, to assess whether there are underlying developmental aetiologies
• Joint working service to improve pathways for children and young people
• Development of pathways and protocols to improve care for children with complex needs

Key Responsibilities
Provide medical leadership and expertise working with the Service lead and Service Manager to ensure the specialty achieves its strategic objectives of person centred care

In conjunction with service management, ensure that performance targets for the specialty are met and reported on.

Support the standardization of practice by contributing to clinical guidelines / protocols across the service; setting up common sets of clinical standards and outcome measures.

Ensure seamless provision of high-quality integrated care to patients along established care pathways.

To contribute to the services quality improvement strategy.

To support the Clinical Director in ensuring the service has systems for monitoring the quality of clinical care in the service.

To collaborate with the Service Lead in the management of any risks.

Actively promote effective multi-disciplinary working within the specialty and collaborative working with other stakeholders.

Collaborate with Community & Mental Health Clinical Directors to ensure that all medical Colleagues have effective job plans to ensure clinical objectives are met.

Along with the senior management team lead the planning and development of services, offering a medical perspective to discussions.

Deputise for the Clinical Director as required.

Teaching & Academic role
Participate in the teaching and training of undergraduates and postgraduates.

Offer training in child development to health personnel and staff in partner agencies.

Develop research interests in their area of interest and expertise.

Managerial responsibilities
Supervise junior staff.

Participate in departmental and Local Authority meetings related to strategic planning.

Take an active role in service review and development

CPD, Audit & Clinical Governance
Participate in CPD activity for which financial support is available

Initiate and undertake appropriate audits as required within the department.

Take part in the clinical governance programme

Proposed job plan
This post attracts 10 programmed activities per week. There may be the opportunity to discuss and review this with the Clinical Director.

The job plan for the first three months will be based on a provisional/indicative timetable. A formal job plan will be agreed between the appointee and the Clinical Director within three months of the commencement date of the appointee.

The supporting professional activities (SPAs) allocation within the provisional job plan is an illustrative guide only and will be finalised following individual agreement with successful candidate.

The basic template for new consultants is 1.5 SPA. Any additional SPA time in the Job Plan is linked to defined roles with clear objectives.

1.0 SPA for:

• Personal revalidation, appraisal/job planning/quality improvement /clinical governance/statutory & mandatory training/CPD.
• Engagement in Quality Improvement, including: Attending Quality Improvement meetings Contributing data; and Implementing agreed Quality Improvement recommendations in own practice.

0.5 SPA for departmental & Trust meetings and teaching (UG, departmental, Trust).

Indicative 0.25 SPA for a formal Postgraduate Medical Educational Supervisor role.

Additional SPA(s) for defined roles or activities in research, departmental leadership or wider governance, and audit, as agreed through the job planning process

The Job plan entails:
Regular job planning meetings will be undertaken with the post holder to ensure that the appointee is remunerated for any additional activities undertaken and that the job plan accurately reflects the overall workload undertaken by the post holder.

Provision of Services
A proposed job plan is outlined below. The sessions may able to be adapted following discussion and changes made by mutual agreement between the Trust and the successful candidate if the service need changes.

AM
PM
DCC PAs
SPAs
Monday Training/audit/research Clinic 1.5 0.5
Tuesday Training/audit/Consultant meetings/ monthly clinic Clinical admin 2
Wednesday Clinic SPA Time 1 1
Thursday Clinic Clinical admin/ MDT working 2
Friday Clinic Clinical admin 2
On-call
TOTAL PAs 10

Clinics will be booked according to locally agreed templates that are responsive to the needs of children and young people.

Person Specification
Shortlisting criteria
Essential

• GMC registration with licence to practise
• GMC Specialist Registration for Community Paediatrics, or within 6 months of obtaining GMC Specialist Registration
• MRCPCH or equivalent
• Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT in relevant Paediatric specialty (dual accreditation in General Paediatrics or Community Paediatrics) or Demonstrates evidence of experience in Community Paediatrics at a senior level in the UK for at least a period of 3 years (independent and unsupervised)
• Level 3 Child Safeguarding training
• Valid BLS Training

Desirable

• Higher Degree e.g. MSc, DCH, DCCH, MBA or post graduate qualification
• Valid APLS and NLS Training

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details
Employer name: Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Alder Hey Children's Hospital Trust, Liverpool, L14 5AB, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://alderhey.nhs.uk/

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: GSRecruitment@alderhey.nhs.uk