Job summary
Whittington Health NHS Trust is seeking an 7 PA Consultant in Community Paediatrics for 6months, pending substantive recruitment.
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 a 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, covering and conducting clinics in special schools and participating on the Child Protection rota with the Camden community consultant team. It would be ideal if the applicant can cover the Named Dr role for Safeguarding, but this is not mandatory.
Islington has a team of Community Paediatricians, and the successful applicant will be working closely with the team at Northern Health Centre. 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Duties of the post
Summary outline:
1. Special School clinics 1 per week
2. Neurodevelopmental clinics 3 community clinics per month, one multi-disciplinary clinic for children with conditions significantly affecting their posture and movement who are not (yet) in special needs schools and one clinic a month in ADHD service working together with another consultant
3. ASD diagnostic clinic (1PA) to be part of the Social Communication Team and participate in the MDT diagnostic process.
4. CP second on call (0.25 PA) 2 hours per call, the CP on call is fortnightly on Fridays
5. SPA (1.25 PA) CPD, this includes departmental meetings, CP peer review, mandatory training and own appraisal
6. Lead for training of junior doctors and medical students (0.25PA)
7. Named doctor for safeguarding if this role is taken up, it is 2PA. There will then be less community clinic per month
Please see the attached job description for full details.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Duties of the post
Summary outline:
1. Special School clinics 1 per week
2. Neurodevelopmental clinics 3 community clinics per month, one multi-disciplinary clinic for children with conditions significantly affecting their posture and movement who are not (yet) in special needs schools and one clinic a month in ADHD service working together with another consultant
3. ASD diagnostic clinic (1PA) to be part of the Social Communication Team and participate in the MDT diagnostic process.
4. CP second on call (0.25 PA) 2 hours per call, the CP on call is fortnightly on Fridays
5. SPA (1.25 PA) CPD, this includes departmental meetings, CP peer review, mandatory training and own appraisal
6. Lead for training of junior doctors and medical students (0.25PA)
7. Named doctor for safeguarding if this role is taken up, it is 2PA. There will then be less community clinic per month
Please see the attached job description for full details.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Full GMC Registration
- MB BS or equivalent
- MRCP/MRCPCH or equivalent
- CCT (or equivalent), or within 6 months of CT date, or entry on the Specialist Register of GMC for Paediatrics
- Evidence that the candidate is within 6 months of CCT date and is expected to achieve a CCT
Desirable
- BSc in medical subject
- PhD, Md, MSc, DCH
- CCT in Paediatric Neurodisability
Clinical Experience and Skills
Essential
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary Child Development team and ability to carry out comprehensive developmental assessments
- Competence in management of common problems in children with ADHD, Autism, epilepsy and physical neurodisability
- Minimum Level 3 Children Protection competence, ability to assess children when there are safeguarding concerns and experience of providing safeguarding supervision
- Competence in management of common general paediatric problems - acute and chronic
Desirable
- Substantial clinical experience as a clinician in paediatric neurodisability, manging epilepsy, and would be able to manage children with complex health needs
Teaching
Essential
- Experience of Undergraduate and Postgraduate teaching
Desirable
- Additional teaching qualifications
Team Working
Essential
- Ability to work as a member of a multidisciplinary team, seeking advice from, sharing experience with, and offering support to other team members
Desirable
- Experience of working in an interagency team
Communication skills
Essential
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to interpret and communicate on a broad range of health information in a social and education context
- Strong leadership qualities including ability to build effective relationships, influence, and negotiate with others, political astuteness and sensitivity, ability to manage conflict of interest
Desirable
- Able to analyse holistic health chronologies and provide a written comprehensive report detailing the implications of the information for the care experienced child's current and future health and wellbeing
Management ability
Essential
- Ability to undertake administrative tasks
- Ability to prioritise tasks
- Ability to supervise junior staff
Desirable
- Completed recognised leadership course
Participation in Clinical Governance
Essential
- Record of completed audit and service improvement project
Desirable
- Experience in NHS complaint handling Clinical incident reporting
- Experience in Clinical incident reporting
- Experience in Training in and experience of appraisal
- Experience in Risk management training
- An understanding of clinical governance and its application to the role of Named Doctor
Personal Skills
Desirable
- Training in communication skills, counselling, educational supervision
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Full GMC Registration
- MB BS or equivalent
- MRCP/MRCPCH or equivalent
- CCT (or equivalent), or within 6 months of CT date, or entry on the Specialist Register of GMC for Paediatrics
- Evidence that the candidate is within 6 months of CCT date and is expected to achieve a CCT
Desirable
- BSc in medical subject
- PhD, Md, MSc, DCH
- CCT in Paediatric Neurodisability
Clinical Experience and Skills
Essential
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary Child Development team and ability to carry out comprehensive developmental assessments
- Competence in management of common problems in children with ADHD, Autism, epilepsy and physical neurodisability
- Minimum Level 3 Children Protection competence, ability to assess children when there are safeguarding concerns and experience of providing safeguarding supervision
- Competence in management of common general paediatric problems - acute and chronic
Desirable
- Substantial clinical experience as a clinician in paediatric neurodisability, manging epilepsy, and would be able to manage children with complex health needs
Teaching
Essential
- Experience of Undergraduate and Postgraduate teaching
Desirable
- Additional teaching qualifications
Team Working
Essential
- Ability to work as a member of a multidisciplinary team, seeking advice from, sharing experience with, and offering support to other team members
Desirable
- Experience of working in an interagency team
Communication skills
Essential
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to interpret and communicate on a broad range of health information in a social and education context
- Strong leadership qualities including ability to build effective relationships, influence, and negotiate with others, political astuteness and sensitivity, ability to manage conflict of interest
Desirable
- Able to analyse holistic health chronologies and provide a written comprehensive report detailing the implications of the information for the care experienced child's current and future health and wellbeing
Management ability
Essential
- Ability to undertake administrative tasks
- Ability to prioritise tasks
- Ability to supervise junior staff
Desirable
- Completed recognised leadership course
Participation in Clinical Governance
Essential
- Record of completed audit and service improvement project
Desirable
- Experience in NHS complaint handling Clinical incident reporting
- Experience in Clinical incident reporting
- Experience in Training in and experience of appraisal
- Experience in Risk management training
- An understanding of clinical governance and its application to the role of Named Doctor
Personal Skills
Desirable
- Training in communication skills, counselling, educational supervision
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).
