Career support

Course

Leading across boundaries: Presence, purpose and partnership - RCPCH and Talent for Care webinar

22 April 2026

Designed as a thought-provoking professional development session, this webinar offers insights into leadership qualities and how to create our own leadership identity based on our values.

Leadership

Document

Preparing for the consultant paediatrician role: Lived experiences, data and recommended actions

The transition from postgraduate doctor in training (PGDiT) to consultant is one of the most significant in a paediatrician’s working life. Whether approaching qualification via run-through training or the Portfolio Pathway, this can be a time of stress and uncertainty. Paediatricians who have ma...

Paediatric careers

Workforce

Document

Specialist, associate specialist and specialty doctors - careers information

Specialist, Associate Specialist and Specialty (SAS) doctors are a diverse group of doctors with a wide range of skills and experience, and form an essential part of the paediatric workforce. This resource covers the need to know about SAS careers in paediatrics, whether you are a current SAS doc...

Paediatric careers

Continuing professional development

Resource

Pregnancy and parenthood - guidance for doctors

We list resources on pregnancy, going back to work, breastfeeding and maternity, paternity and adoption leave. We also have produced our own guidance to support those experiencing pregnancy loss and/or fertility issues.

Resource

Consultant and SAS doctors job planning toolkit

Targeted job planning is vital to organise the paediatric consultant and SAS doctor workload and ensure excellent service for infants, children and young people. Our toolkit guides you from preparation for the first job planning meeting, through to objective setting and review, plus information on l...

Workforce

Thrive Paediatrics

Wellbeing for health professionals

Document

Reasonable adjustments policy - education and training activities

The RCPCH is committed to providing support and fair opportunity to all. As a member, you are entitled to request reasonable adjustments for College education and training activities. We will fully consider all requests and inform you if supporting evidence is needed. The purpose of this policy i...

Continuing professional development

Paediatric sub-specialty

Paediatric training

Document

Reasonable adjustments at work – good practice for paediatricians

Based on the legal guidance, paediatric trainees and doctors can use this resource to identify supporting options available to them where appropriate.

Examinations

Paediatric training

Service design

Equality, diversity and inclusion

Wellbeing for health professionals

Resource

Retaining the paediatric workforce today and tomorrow - recording from members' live Q&A

As part of its ongoing careers work, the RCPCH launches its 2020 #ChoosePaediatrics campaign with the focus on retention and looking at how we retain the paediatric workforce today and tomorrow. Host Daniel Waeland, Director of Education & Training is joined by Camilla Kingdon, Vice President for...

Membership

Choose paediatrics

Workforce

Individual profile

Dr Camilla Kingdon

Document

Trainee toolkit - by trainees, for trainees

Make the most of your paediatric training. This document for trainees (and their trainers) covers the essential elements on what to expect from a training post. We have also provided examples of good practice - aiming to reflect variation across the country - that showcase how different centres look...

Paediatric training