Speciality Doctor - Community Paediatrics

Job description

Job responsibilities

We have a vacancy for a Speciality Doctor in the Barnet Community Paediatrics teams based at Edgware Community Hospital.

The post is 10pas and will include a mixture of clinical work. We are anticipating a significant investment into our Neuro-developmental Diagnostic Pathway and the post holder will have a key role in shaping that together with the AHP pathway lead. We anticipate that the post holder will be involved in joint clinics with our CAMHS colleagues around complex presentations. Clinics will be: child development clinics, EHCP and Autism Diagnostic Clinics (ADOS)

Barnet Child Development team is an enthusiastic and innovative team looking at ways to redefine the way they work in a changing NHS climate, facing the challenges of providing the very best of clinical care in a community setting. The additional funding will provide us with an opportunity to reshape the way we work and together with our partners address some of the gaps in provision that currently exist.

This post is mainly based at Edgware Community hospital, but with occasional clinical commitments at other sites across Barnet.

Person Specification

Education & professional Qualifications

Essential

• Full GMC Registration with License to practice in the UK
• MRCPCH or equivalent

Desirable

• ADOS practitioner

Experience

Essential

• Knowledge of working with children with a range of neurodevelopmental conditions
• Experience of conducting autism diagnostic assessment
• Identifying and acting on safeguarding concerns

Desirable

• Contribution to EHCP process
• Working collaboratively across organisational boundaries

Skills and Aptitude

Essential

• Ability to manage competing priorities
• Ability to write concise, empathic and relevant reports.
• Good communication skills, ability to build rapport, work with others, including a good command of written and spoken English.
• Empathy, understanding, listening skills, patience and social skills appropriate to different types of patient

Personal Qualities & Attributes

Essential

• Well organised and methodical
• A good level of self-awareness
• Good self-care skills and resilience
• Able to work on own initiative and aware of own limitations

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Edgware Community Hospital

Burnt Oak Broadway

Edgware

HA8 0AD

Employer's website

https://www.royalfreelondonjobs.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)