Job summary
Community Consultant Paediatrician - 4 Sessions
This post is for a Community Consultant Paediatrician position, in the Barking and Dagenham Specialist Children Service, based at the Child and Family Health Centre, 79 Axe Street, Barking, IG11 7L.
Rationale for post:This is a job share post, following investment by the place based ICB to support the increase demand on Community Paediatric services. A lot of transformation has taken place already and continues to take place in Barking and Dagenham community babies, children, and youngpeople services. This post is currently vacant, and we wish to recruit substantively to this post as soon as possible. This is a 12 months FTC post - 4 Programmed Activities (PAs) post with 1.5 Direct ClinicalContact activities (DCC) and 0.5 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs).
On-call responsibility:There is no on call requirement at night, although the post holder will participate in a daytime on-call rota 9am - 5pm to deliver child protection medical examinations.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will work as part of a fully integrated multidisciplinary specialist team providing care to children and young people with health needs, across Barking & Dagenham. The successful applicant will also become part of a large (30+ community paediatricians), dynamic, community paediatric team, across the whole of North East London Foundation Trust. The successful candidate will provide senior medical support to the team, and direct input on clinical cases. The consultant will be expected to provide guidance and supervision to the team, work directly with babies, children, and young people (and their families), and liaise as appropriate with other external health providers, and acute hospitals. There will also be the opportunity for the post holder to further develop links already establishedwith the local acute trusts, in order to continually improve our services. There are close links with the acute paediatric department at Kind George Hospital (Ilford) and Queens Hospital (Romford) alongside Tertiary colleagues at the Royal London and Great Ormond StreetHospital.
About us
The postholder will be professionally and clinically accountable to the Deputy Associate Medical Director for Barking and Dagenham (currently Dr Manjari Tanwar), and operationally accountable to both the Acting Associate Medical Director (currently Dr Basit Hussain) and theIntegrated Care Director (currently Melody Williams) for Barking & Dagenham, via the Assistant Director (currently Mohammed Mohit).The post holder will be a suitably qualified Consultant Paediatrician with at least 2 years' experience in community Child health. The post holder will be a GMC registered clinician responsible for patients allocated to them and will assess, manage, plan, and deliver care.
The post holder will support their peers and team leader and be an effective team memberwhilst working on their own initiative. They will have a commitment to collaborative working and actively supporting and liaising with other health and social care professionals and agencies.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main responsibilities:1. To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others workload in the day-to-dayallocation of work.2. To deputise when required in the team managers absence and delegate appropriately toother medical staff.3. To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere tothem.4. To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust foraudit purposes.5. To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing,and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trusts risk register.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main responsibilities:1. To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others workload in the day-to-dayallocation of work.2. To deputise when required in the team managers absence and delegate appropriately toother medical staff.3. To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere tothem.4. To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust foraudit purposes.5. To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing,and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trusts risk register.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- MRCPCH by examination or equivalent.
- Full GMC registration.
- On the GMC's Specialist Register or within six months of CCT at time of scheduled interview.
- CCT/CCST or equivalent accreditation in Community Paediatrics or equivalent training and experience.
- Note: Portfolio Pathway (formerly CESR) applicants must be on the Specialist Register at the point of application.
Clinical
Essential
- At least 2 years General Professional Training in paediatrics.
- years Higher Specialist Training, including 2 years in Community Paediatrics, or is able to demonstrate having achieved the competencies equivalent to the Highest Specialist Paediatric Training.
- Valid Level 3 Safeguarding Training.
- Valid BLS Training
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- MRCPCH by examination or equivalent.
- Full GMC registration.
- On the GMC's Specialist Register or within six months of CCT at time of scheduled interview.
- CCT/CCST or equivalent accreditation in Community Paediatrics or equivalent training and experience.
- Note: Portfolio Pathway (formerly CESR) applicants must be on the Specialist Register at the point of application.
Clinical
Essential
- At least 2 years General Professional Training in paediatrics.
- years Higher Specialist Training, including 2 years in Community Paediatrics, or is able to demonstrate having achieved the competencies equivalent to the Highest Specialist Paediatric Training.
- Valid Level 3 Safeguarding Training.
- Valid BLS Training
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).
