Paediatrician CV Examples & Writing Guide

This sample is for a consultant general paediatrician eight years after CCT who works in an NHS district general hospital with postnatal ward and special care baby unit cover. The doctor, the hospitals and the training posts are invented. A full medical CV runs longer than this and adds publications, teaching, audit and research; the version below is the condensed two-page format many trusts, private hospitals and locum agencies accept alongside an application.

In the UK every doctor uses a CV, but there are two kinds. They do different jobs, and a lot of paediatricians send the wrong one.

If an advert says "submit your CV" for a locum or service post, they mean the clinical version, usually alongside the NHS Jobs or Trac application form. Send the two-page document. Keep the full medical CV updated separately so you can send it the day a consultant, academic or fellowship opportunity comes up.

• Specialist Register status. "GMC Specialist Register (Paediatrics) since 2018", or "CCT expected August 2027" if you are still in training. Never claim Specialist Register entry before it is confirmed. Medical staffing checks the online register and the offer will not survive it.
• Licence and revalidation. Full GMC registration with a licence to practise and your last revalidation date. Medical staffing teams check this first because a lapsed licence or a new GMC application can add weeks or months to a start date.
• Setting and volume. General paediatrics, community paediatrics, neonates, paediatric emergency medicine, tertiary subspecialty. Then patients per clinic and children under follow-up. A department hiring for busy general clinics wants to see you have run busy general clinics.
• On-call. The line everyone skips and every medical staffing team wants. "1-in-5 consultant on-call including postnatal ward and SCBU" or "no on-call, child protection rota 1 week in 4" answers the question that otherwise takes an email round trip.
• Gaps and job changes. Explain a gap in one short line rather than leaving a hole. Parental leave, a move, time out of programme, a visa process. A two-year unexplained gap on a doctor's CV always gets asked about.

“I need Specialist Register status, licence to practise and revalidation in the top third, and I need the on-call commitment somewhere. If a paediatrician tells me they see 24 a day with newborn cover on a one-in-five, I can match that to five openings today. A CV that only lists rotations makes me guess, and I do not guess.”

Three or four sentences under your name. Registration status, years since CCT, setting and volume, then one thing you improved.

Rotation lists and duty statements do not separate you from the other twelve applicants. Volume, quality measures, procedures and teaching do.

This block is not decoration. It is what medical staffing copies into the pre-employment checks. Put it high on page one and keep every date accurate.

• Specialist Register: "GMC Specialist Register (Paediatrics) since 2018" with the route, either a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) or the portfolio pathway (formerly CESR). If you completed RCPCH subspecialty training (for example neonatal medicine), add it on the same line with the year.
• CCT expected: write it plainly with the date. Medical staffing and appointments panels read "CCT expected" as a real, time-limited status (you can be interviewed for consultant posts within six months of it), and misstating it is the fastest way to lose an offer.
• GMC registration: full registration, licence to practise and your last revalidation date. GMC registration covers the whole UK, so a move to Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland does not need a new registration.
• Safeguarding: Level 3 safeguarding children training with the date of your last update. Named and designated doctors add the higher level their role needs. Every paediatric post checks it.
• Life support: NLS and APLS (or EPALS) with expiry years. Neonatal and acute general paediatric roles will not put you on the rota without current NLS and APLS or EPALS.
• Membership: MRCPCH is the membership exam of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. FRCPCH is awarded by election, not by exam, so do not present it as a higher qualification you passed.
• For international medical graduates: your route to GMC registration (PLAB, MRCPCH or another accepted postgraduate qualification), English language results (IELTS or OET) and your visa status or right to work, if you want to save everyone a phone call.

Training goes in its own block: medical school with degree and year, the Foundation Programme, paediatric specialty training with grades and dates, subspecialty or out-of-programme posts if you did them, and a chief registrar year if applicable. An intercalated degree gets one line. Do not list individual rotations once you are more than two years past CCT.

You have no consultant post to point at, so the CV has to make your specialty training look like what it was: thousands of patient encounters.

1. 1Put your CCT date, GMC status and MRCPCH in the first three lines.
2. 2Quantify your registrar clinics: patients under follow-up, clinics a week, how many years. That is your closest thing to consultant outpatient work.
3. 3Describe your middle-grade work in supervisory terms: how many junior doctors and students you supervised, which services, how many admissions a night.
4. 4List procedures with numbers from your ePortfolio (lumbar punctures, neonatal intubations, umbilical lines, laceration repairs). A number beside each is normal and expected on a paediatrics CV.
5. 5Include your QI or audit project with the result, not just the title.
6. 6Add teaching, committees and any advocacy or community work; paediatric departments genuinely weigh these.
7. 7State your preferred region and setting near the top. Medical staffing teams and agencies sort by it.
8. 8Keep the condensed CV to two pages. There is no prize for stretching training into four; the full medical CV carries the rest.

• Two pages for a condensed CV, three if you have significant teaching or management work. The full medical CV has no limit.
• Reverse chronological. Header order that works: name and qualifications, contact details, personal statement, registration and certificates, experience, training and education, procedures, teaching, audit and quality improvement, memberships.
• PDF unless the application portal demands .docx. NHS Jobs, Trac and agency portals can mangle two-column layouts and text boxes, so use a single column.
• Put the exact advert words in: "general paediatrics", "postnatal ward", "SCBU", "level 2 neonatal unit", "Epic", "10 PAs", "1-in-5 on-call". Medical staffing and agencies both search these.
• Write both forms of an abbreviation once: "Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH)", "Newborn Life Support (NLS)".
• Give your GMC number on request. It is public on the online register, so sharing it with medical staffing is fine, but it does not need to be on every copy.
• Keep revalidation and certificate expiry dates current on every version you send. A CV with an expired APLS date on it reads as careless in a field where dates are the job.