We offer a generous package of benefits, including 27 days holiday a year, bank holidays and Christmas closure, personal pension plan with up to 10% employer contribution and interest-free season ticket loan, and more!
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Membership
Milestones: Finding the time'Twas the Milestones before Christmas... The winter edition of your member magazine is now out, with contributions on supporting professional activities, our rota gaps survey, service development and so much more.
Get involved in a College roleApplications are now open until 6 January for a host of roles, many of which support paediatric training - including to represent your fellow trainees, develop scenarios for our START assessment and review Portfolio Pathway applications. -
Education and careers
Our upcoming coursesWe offer a range of courses, including our popular 'How to manage' series on clinical topics, plus safeguarding, effective educational supervision and exam preparation. Many are hosted online. -
Work we do
Our College strategyCovering the next three years and with four strategic goals, our strategy aims to meet our members' priorities to support their working lives and be a powerful advocate for children and young people. -
Resources
Discharge and medication safetyWe have six recommendations to improve the safety of liquid medicines during the transition from hospital to home care.
Thrive Paediatrics resource hubEspecially for members, our new hub offers evidence and good practice examples in wellbeing, plus stories from paediatricians' lived experience. -
Key topics
10 Year Health Plan for the NHSWe want to ensure children and young people are at the centre of the Government's plan. Our briefings outline our recommendations and how members in England can input.
Air pollution and child healthOur Companion, developed with members, helps you build your knowledge, talk to patients and advocate for change - such as joining a clean air community in the UK or internationally. -
News and events
From Professor Steve Turner...As RCPCH President, Steve shares regular updates with members by email and on this website - such as his regular feature on #WDYCD4Y: What Does Your College Do For You.
RCPCH Conference 2025Our major event of the year takes place from 26 to 28 March in Glasgow and online, and you don't want to miss it! Get your early bird ticket now for 15% off.
Paediatric services and rota gapsWe surveyed members across the UK to understand more about understaffed rotas and how to address them for both a high quality service and clinician wellbeing.
We post our open job opportunities on our recruitment portal. Here you can read full details about each role and the skills and experience we're looking for, apply online and manage your profile.
Each staff member, no matter their role, helps drive our vision to lead the way in child health - and we expect all to uphold our values: lead, innovate, influence, include. Most staff work 40% in the office, 60% at home.
Learning and career development at the College
We're a small organisation with a big impact. With a huge range of roles, we have a careers pathways framework, plus mentoring, coaching, shadowing and secondment opportunities to support all staff.
As an accredited Institue for Learning Management (ILM) organisation,we're committed to each employee's learning and development.
We are dedicated to inclusive, accessible recruitment and employment. We're a Disability Confident Leader, and staff groups include Disability Forum, Racial Equity And Cultural Harmony Network, LGBT+ & Allies and Parent & Carer Network.
We are committed to helping and supporting our staff. We provide our key policies on recruiment and employment. We've also got some guidance for candidates filling in an application form or attending an interview.
Founded in 1996, we're the youngest of the medical Royal Colleges. We provide the training, exams, membership support, invited reviews and more for paediatricians and paediatric services, and embed the voice of children and young people in our work.
The College team
Our senior management team leads our six divisions, with about 170 staff members - all dedicated to the College vision and values.