Locum Consultant Community Paediatrician

Whittington Hospital NHS Trust

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Job summary

Locum Consultant Community Paediatrician, Named Dr Children Looked After

Whittington Health NHS Trust is seeking an 8 PA Consultant in Community Paediatrics to take the role of Named Doctor for Children Looked After. This will be a locum post for 6 months, to start as soon as possible, with the aim of developing this into a substantive post.

We are looking for a developmental paediatrician to join our Islington Community Paediatrics Team at the Northern Health Centre, Upper Holloway, London. This post covers the Named Dr for Children Looked After Service as well as a wide variety of community paediatrics, doing regular developmental paediatrics including an MDT clinic for severe physical disabilities, contributing to the diagnosis of a variety of developmental disorders and participating on the Child Protection rota with the Camden community consultant team.

Islington has a team of experienced Community Paediatricians, and the Named Doctor for Children Looked After will be working closely and co-located with Social Care at their Highbury office on Elwood Street.

There is some flexibility to accommodate special interests and opportunities exist for developing clinical interests.

Main duties of the job

Please see the full Job Description and the Person Specification for further details about the job role.

About us

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trustbelieves that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Date posted

18 March 2025

Pay scheme

Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade

Consultant

Salary

£105,504 to £139,882 a year per annum (pro rata for part time)

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

6 months

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

220-CYP-MED-003

Job locations

Northern Health Centre

London

N7 6LB

Job description

Job responsibilities

Duties of the post

Job Plan:

Summary outline:

Named Dr for Children Looked After (2PA). This includes regular clinics for Initial Health Assessments.

Other CLA work (1PA) to be determined; current CLA retiring.

CPD (1.5 PA) this includes departmental meetings and CP peer review.

Developmental clinics; 2 clinics per month (1PA). Uni - and multi-disciplinary(the latter for children with conditions significantly affecting their posture and movement who are not (yet) in special needs schools).

ASD diagnostic clinic once per month (0.5PA).Be part of the Social Communication Team and participate in the MDT diagnostic process.

CP second on call (0.25 PA per week) 2 hours per call, the on call is every other week.

Remainder 0.75PA for other non CLA work; either epilepsy or neuro disability (possibly RC school) - to be determined.

There are no out of hours duties. The specific time allocation to be determined but must include Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

Please see the attached job description for a sample timetable.

Areas of specific Named Dr for Safeguarding activity include:

Duties of the post

Named Doctor for Children in Care (2 PAs)

There are around 400 children in care at any one time in Haringey and around 10 children enter care per month.

The post holder will take an active role, together with relevant colleagues, in assessing and promoting the health and well-being of children in care. This includes:

Initial and review health assessments for children in care and ensure the provision of a written health report on each child becoming looked after.

Supervising trainees in the above health assessments.

Advise on particular health matters that arise in connection with children in care and the permanence process.

Where there are identified concerns as part of the multiagency team, we discuss the cases with the social worker and will attend a professional meeting if required.

Attendance at monthly North Central London Named and Designated Doctors peer supervision.

Adoption

Provide a written report on the health of prospective carers, which will include interpretation of health and lifestyle information provided by the applicant and their GP.