Job summary
The successful post holder will join a dynamic acute workforce treating a wide spectrum of emergency and acute paediatrics and neonatal presentations.
The post will provide additional support to the Tier 2 rota during the winter period which is our busiest part of the year.
This is a great opportunity to broaden your experience while working in a friendly and supportive environment. There is a strong training culture incorporating lecture-room teaching and clinical supervision.
Please see Job Description and Person Specification attached for further details
Main duties of the job
- The Paediatric department is run as a team and the specialty doctor will be responsible for the patients of all consultants
- The specialty doctor will contribute to covering the in-patient children's ward, Children's Assessment Unit, ED and neonatal unit
- The specialty doctor will support and supervise Tier 1 doctors (SHOs) with assessment of children and neonate
The specialty doctor will be expected to attend and participate in:
- Weekly departmental teaching programme
- Bite size teachings - three times weekly
- weekly hospital grand rounds given by trainees and consultants from all hospital department
- weekly paediatric x-ray meetings with consultant radiologist
- monthly perinatal meetings with some presentations by trainees
- monthly clinical governance meetings
Please see Job Description and Person Specification attached for further details
About us
#BeKnown at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By us. By our patients. By our community
We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.
The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.
Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.
We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.
With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.
We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyone's voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.
Join us. What will you #BeKnown for?
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see Job Description and Person Specification attached for further details
The CAU and ward is a bright and cheerful environment for children, parents and staff alike.
The unit comprises a 9 bed Childrens ward with isolation cubicles linked to a Childrens Short Stay Assessment and Observation Unit (CAU) with 6 beds and cubicles. The beds are used flexibly to accommodate paediatric medical and surgical patients. There is an HDU room, to allow intensive monitoring of children. We have good relations with the adult ITU staff at the hospital and admit critically sick children there for stabilisation, prior to transfer to PICU (usually Addenbrookes Cambridge). The department aims to provide comprehensive care for all patients under the age of 16 years but liaises closely and transfers, when appropriate, to Addenbrookes Hospital those patients who require regional services. Where Addenbrookes are unable to offer regional services (for example, cardiology or nephrology), or if they require supra-regional services, patients are transferred to or discussed with hospitals outside the region, usually London.
There is a twelve cot Special Care Baby Unit with two fully equipped intensive care cots. The SCBU has been upgraded and re-equipped to provide a more efficient and comfortable working environment. The number of deliveries at the West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust continues to rise and is currently around 2,629 per year. The SCBU is equipped with vapotherms and 2 Dragers ventilators, together with appropriate monitoring equipment, which includes facilities for invasive blood pressure monitoring. Dr Aamir is the Consultant with special responsibility for SCBU.
Paediatric Out-Patient Clinics are held in the purpose built Paediatric Out-Patient department.
The following sub specialist paediatric clinics are currently held : diabetic clinics, baby follow up clinics, neurology/epilepsy clinics, baby (new born follow up) clinic, asthma clinic, allergy clinic, urology/nephrology clinics, echocardiography clinic, dermatology, diabetes/endocrinology, oncology and psychology.
Joint clinics are also held in paediatric cardiology with visiting specialists from the Brompton and from Guys (Evelina) and in paediatric endocrinology, neurology, orthopaedics, genetics and paediatric urology/nephrology with visiting specialists from Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge and Norfolk and Norwich hospital.
The Trust delivers services to patients seven days a week and aims to provide equality of treatment and outcome regardless of the day of the week. To meet these aims and changing service requirements, the Trust may need you either to work temporarily outside of your core hours or to permanently change your core working days and hours. The Trust will give you reasonable notice, where possible, of temporary changes to your days or hours of work and will consult with you and/or your staff representatives about substantial permanent changes, but ultimately, these are changes which may be required of you
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see Job Description and Person Specification attached for further details
The CAU and ward is a bright and cheerful environment for children, parents and staff alike.
The unit comprises a 9 bed Childrens ward with isolation cubicles linked to a Childrens Short Stay Assessment and Observation Unit (CAU) with 6 beds and cubicles. The beds are used flexibly to accommodate paediatric medical and surgical patients. There is an HDU room, to allow intensive monitoring of children. We have good relations with the adult ITU staff at the hospital and admit critically sick children there for stabilisation, prior to transfer to PICU (usually Addenbrookes Cambridge). The department aims to provide comprehensive care for all patients under the age of 16 years but liaises closely and transfers, when appropriate, to Addenbrookes Hospital those patients who require regional services. Where Addenbrookes are unable to offer regional services (for example, cardiology or nephrology), or if they require supra-regional services, patients are transferred to or discussed with hospitals outside the region, usually London.
There is a twelve cot Special Care Baby Unit with two fully equipped intensive care cots. The SCBU has been upgraded and re-equipped to provide a more efficient and comfortable working environment. The number of deliveries at the West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust continues to rise and is currently around 2,629 per year. The SCBU is equipped with vapotherms and 2 Dragers ventilators, together with appropriate monitoring equipment, which includes facilities for invasive blood pressure monitoring. Dr Aamir is the Consultant with special responsibility for SCBU.
Paediatric Out-Patient Clinics are held in the purpose built Paediatric Out-Patient department.
The following sub specialist paediatric clinics are currently held : diabetic clinics, baby follow up clinics, neurology/epilepsy clinics, baby (new born follow up) clinic, asthma clinic, allergy clinic, urology/nephrology clinics, echocardiography clinic, dermatology, diabetes/endocrinology, oncology and psychology.
Joint clinics are also held in paediatric cardiology with visiting specialists from the Brompton and from Guys (Evelina) and in paediatric endocrinology, neurology, orthopaedics, genetics and paediatric urology/nephrology with visiting specialists from Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge and Norfolk and Norwich hospital.
The Trust delivers services to patients seven days a week and aims to provide equality of treatment and outcome regardless of the day of the week. To meet these aims and changing service requirements, the Trust may need you either to work temporarily outside of your core hours or to permanently change your core working days and hours. The Trust will give you reasonable notice, where possible, of temporary changes to your days or hours of work and will consult with you and/or your staff representatives about substantial permanent changes, but ultimately, these are changes which may be required of you
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- MBBS
- MRCPCH Part 1
- Full, current GMC registration with a licence to practise.
- NLS and APLS Certificate
Desirable
Clinical experience
Essential
- Tertiary level neonates at ST1/2 level
- oAppropriate experience in Paediatrics & Neonates to be working on the middle grade rota.
Management and administration
Essential
- Supervision of ST1/ST2 level when admitting acute paediatric & neonatal emergencies
- Resuscitation
- Team Leader
- Ability to manage full spectrum paediatric & neonatal emergencies.
- Lumbar puncture
- Insertion of UAC, UVC and long lines
- Communication skills - to be clear, fluent and articulate in communication in English.
Teaching experience
Essential
- Committed and strongly motivated.
Research
Essential
- Flexibility of approach to duties
- Willingness to learn new skills and to undertake new duties.
- Ability to deal with stress of supervising acute emergency take.
Personal Skills and Qualities
Essential
- Willingness to participate in unit audit programme.
- The ability to communicate with clarity and intelligibility in written and spoken English; ability to build rapport, listen, persuade, negotiate.
- All applicants to have demonstrable skills in written and spoken English that are adequate to enable effective communication about medical topics with patients and colleagues which could be demonstrated by one of the following: - -PLAB 1 -PLAB 2 If applicants believe that they have adequate communication skills, but do not fit into one of the examples they need to provide evidence.
Desirable
- Ability to travel to rural locations.
Appraisal
Essential
- Willingness to assist in routine firm management e.g., study leave, rotas etc.
Standards
Essential
- oTo have a thorough knowledge and demonstrable understanding of "Good Medical Practice" from the GMC.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- MBBS
- MRCPCH Part 1
- Full, current GMC registration with a licence to practise.
- NLS and APLS Certificate
Desirable
Clinical experience
Essential
- Tertiary level neonates at ST1/2 level
- oAppropriate experience in Paediatrics & Neonates to be working on the middle grade rota.
Management and administration
Essential
- Supervision of ST1/ST2 level when admitting acute paediatric & neonatal emergencies
- Resuscitation
- Team Leader
- Ability to manage full spectrum paediatric & neonatal emergencies.
- Lumbar puncture
- Insertion of UAC, UVC and long lines
- Communication skills - to be clear, fluent and articulate in communication in English.
Teaching experience
Essential
- Committed and strongly motivated.
Research
Essential
- Flexibility of approach to duties
- Willingness to learn new skills and to undertake new duties.
- Ability to deal with stress of supervising acute emergency take.
Personal Skills and Qualities
Essential
- Willingness to participate in unit audit programme.
- The ability to communicate with clarity and intelligibility in written and spoken English; ability to build rapport, listen, persuade, negotiate.
- All applicants to have demonstrable skills in written and spoken English that are adequate to enable effective communication about medical topics with patients and colleagues which could be demonstrated by one of the following: - -PLAB 1 -PLAB 2 If applicants believe that they have adequate communication skills, but do not fit into one of the examples they need to provide evidence.
Desirable
- Ability to travel to rural locations.
Appraisal
Essential
- Willingness to assist in routine firm management e.g., study leave, rotas etc.
Standards
Essential
- oTo have a thorough knowledge and demonstrable understanding of "Good Medical Practice" from the GMC.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
