Job Descriptions

Please take the opportunity to browse the individual job descriptions for the appropriate hospitals. Following the onset of MMC in August 2007, where possible posts have been grouped into one of three areas within the Yorkshire Programme (Yorkshire East, West and Central) to allow doctors to be based in one principle area of Yorkshire. Rotation out of these areas may take place particularly in specialist fields such as Neonatology, Oncology etc. All neonatal placements are in large units which provide level 1 (BAPM) intensive care and which may offer a transport service for small or sick infants.

National Grid

In certain specialties, tertiary training opportunity is not available in every Region. To ensure equity of opportunity a number of these programmes (National Grid) are advertised nationally and interviewed centrally at the College. The Yorkshire Training Programme offers a number of these National Grid programmes, although they are not always available every year.

Details of the National Grid training scheme are found on the College website.

RCPCH National Grid Programmes

Details of specialist sub-groups and the appropriate Training Advisers can be found on the College website. A number of specialty groups have their own website with training packs available.

The Yorkshire Training Programmes are listed below: -

• Paediatric Respiratory Medicine
• Paediatric Endocrinology
• Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition (1 year only)
• Paediatric Intensive Care (1 year only)
• Paediatric Nephrology
• Paediatric Neurodisability
• Paediatric Neurology
• Paediatric Oncology
• Neonatal Medicine
• Paediatric Cardiology
• Paediatric Rhumatology

National Grid posts are generally advertised in the BMJ early in the new year for appointment in September of the same year. It is important to understand that Yorkshire National Grid posts are not necessarily available every year. It may be necessary for you to move Deanery if you are successful in applying to a National Grid post. Please check with the Regional Adviser whether a specific National Grid post is likely to be available in the Yorkshire Region.