Trainee Representative Vacancy

Do you want to represent your fellow trainees?

We are looking for two paediatric trainees to job share the role of the BACD Trainees’ Representative, commencing September 2025.

The key roles of the Trainees’ Representatives are as follows:

• Contribute to the agenda and workplan for BACD activities 
• Represent the views of all trainee members to BACD and ensure their views are heard, and take relevant issues from trainees to BACD and from BACD to trainees for action 
• Liaise with the Neurodisability CSAC and its Trainee Representative and The Neurodisability Community to ensure work streams are aligned and complementary 
• Promote paediatric neurodisability training and provide opportunities through social networking, including the BACD Trainees' X account and write articles for inclusion in the BACD Newsletter 
• Organise the BACD Annual Trainees’ Meeting (usually held virtually in November/December)

Key Information

• Applications are sought from paediatricians in training with an interest in childhood disability: 
  • One position will be filled by a Specialty Trainee in Paediatric Neurodisability 
  • The other position will be filled by either another Specialty Trainee in Paediatric Neurodisability or in a relevant discipline, e.g. community child health, paediatric neurology, general paediatrics) OR a Core Trainee who is yet to apply to sub-specialty training. 
• The Trainee Representatives are expected to attend the quarterly BACD executive committee meetings (currently 2 virtual / 2 in-person per year) 
• Term of office is 2 years - applicants should have a minimum of 1 year of training remaining; successful applicants who finish their training during their term can remain in position for up to 6 months post CCT
• Candidates must be resident and working in the UK and be in a RCPCH training programme (ST1-8). Successful applicants are expected to join the BACD if they are not already a member.

How to apply

Please email to Kelly Robinson a short CV (max 2 pages) and a brief personal statement outlining why you want to take on the role, your ideas for the role, and what you will bring to it, by 5pm, Wednesday 14 May 2025. 

If you would like to speak with the current trainee representatives about the role, please email [email protected]