Advertised location: Livingston
Advertised salary: Specialist Grade (£100,870 - £111,441)
Employment type: Permanent
Specialist Doctor in Community Paediatrics
Community Paediatrics
St Johns Hospital, Livingston
You will also be required to work other NHS Lothian sites.

NHS Lothian is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best.

To this end, NHS Lothian welcomes applications from all sections of society.

We will fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.

A doctor appointed to this grade:

• shall have full registration and a Licence to Practice with the General Medical Council; and
• shall have completed a minimum of 10 years’ medical work (either continuous period or in aggregate) since obtaining a primary medical qualification of which a minimum of six years should have been in a relevant specialty in the Specialty Doctor and/or closed SAS grades. Equivalent years’ experience in a relevant specialty from other medical grades including from overseas will also be accepted;
• shall meet the criteria set out in the Specialist grade generic capabilities framework.

Applications are welcome for the above Permanent, part time (20 hours per week, pay will be pro rata) post based in St. Johns Hospital

This is a 0.5 WTE substantive post with clinical responsibilities based in the West Lothian Community Paediatrics Department. The post holder will join an established and experienced team of paediatricians and therapists. There is no commitment to child protection duties or working within the acute receiving unit for general paediatrics within this post.

The Community Paediatrics service is a Lothian wide service and the person appointed will be required to work at other sites.

More detailed departmental and specialty information can be found in the job description available via email address / link below.

Closing Date 23/10/2026

For an informal discussion please contact:
Dr Charlotte Kirk
Consultant Paediatrician
Clinical Director
Department of Community Paediatrics
Royal Hospital for Children and Young People
50 Little France Crescent
Edinburgh
EH16 4TJ
Tel: 0131 3120740
Email: charlotte.kirk@nhs.scot
Eleanor Quirke
Clinical Service Manager
Department of Community Paediatrics
Royal Hospital for Children and Young People
50 Little France Crescent
Edinburgh
EH16 4TJ
Tel: 0131 312 0740

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We cannot accept CV’s as a form of application and only a completed online application form will be accepted. Personal information will not be sent with the application for short listing. The application form will be identified by the candidate number only to ensure that all applicants are treated equally.

***PLEASE NOTE: We cannot accept late applications so please ensure your application is submitted early***
NHS Lothian is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best.