Consultant Paediatrician

Job description

Job responsibilities

JOB TITLE: Consultant Paediatrician

CONTRACT: 10 Programmed Activities (10 PAs) – Full Time

Flexible working available

BASE: The Grove, Grove Road Chadwell Heath (Redbridge) RM6 4XH

£109, 725 - £145, 478

Consultant Paediatrician

The post is for 10 sessions Consultant Paediatrician in the BHR Neurodevelopmental service. The post holder will be a GMC registered clinician responsible for patients allocated to them and will assess, manage, plan, and deliver evidenced based care, including being professionally and legally accountable.

The post holder will support with clinical and operational leadership as part of a newly established Neurodevelopmental service for children and will support their peers and team leader whilst being an effective team member and working on their own initiative. They will supervise junior colleagues including provision of teaching and training. They will have a commitment to collaborative working and actively supporting and liaising with other health and social care professionals and agencies.

The post holder will contribute as the Consultant Paediatrician in Redbridge for the BHR Neurodevelopmental service and will work alongside the team of substantive Paediatric and CAMHS consultants. The successful applicant will also become part of a large (30+ community paediatricians), dynamic, community paediatric team, across the whole of Northeast London Foundation Trust.

Part of the post-holders’ duties will include service development, service evaluation and applied research.

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.

Main responsibilities:

• To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others’ workload in the day-to-day allocation of work.
• To deputise when required in the team manager’s absence and delegate appropriately to other medical staff.
• To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them.
• To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.
• To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing, and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust’s risk register.
• The post holder will support the development of the Autism/ADHD service, working alongside the multidisciplinary specialist team. They will contribute towards assessment and relevant investigations and supervising MDT colleagues. They will produce reports to contribute to statutory work including EHC plans.
• Leverage opportunities to develop the integrated multidisciplinary Neurodevelopmental service across BHR

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Qualifications:MRCPCH by examination or equivalent.
• Full GMC registration.
• On the GMCs 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.

Desirable

• Higher degree, e.g. MSc, MD, PhD in Paediatrics
• MSc in relevant area e.g. CCH / Neuro-disability

Experience

Essential

• Clinical Experience and Training:At least 2 years General Professional Training in paediatrics.
• 3 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
• Training in Neurodisability
• Valid Level 3 Safeguarding Training.

Desirable

• Experience working in NHS
• Wider experience, research, and training, in providing community paediatric service

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.

Employer details

Employer name

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust

Address

Chadwell Health Health Centre

Chadwell Heath

Essex

RM6 6RT

Employer's website

https://www.nelft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)