Specialty Doctor in Community Child Health

Job responsibilities

1. The Child Development Service is to provide a coordinated multi-disciplinary team approach to assessment and management of children with disabilities.

2. Specialist Childrens Services include Paediatricians, Specialist Nurses and Therapists. Within the Specialist Childrens Services is the child development team, neonatal hearing screening, second tier paediatric audiological, child protection, LAC services and a child health information department.

3.There are close links with CAMHS, CAMHS -LD, Hounslow education, including Portage and TSS and Hounslow social services (social work team for children with disabilities).

4.A core Child Development Team consists of a pediatrician, physiotherapist, OT and SLT. Multi-disciplinary assessments including autism assessments take place every week.

Please see attached job description for more information relating to this role

Qualifications

Essential

• Qualified medical practitioner
• Full GMC registration

Desirable

• Post graduate qualification: eg MRCPH, Msc, DCH, DCCH, MBA or other relevant diplomas

Experience

Essential

• Have completed at least four years (full time equivalent) post full registration as a medical practitioner,

Desirable

• Experience in assessing child development
• Experience in child protection
• Experience in other areas relevant to child health eg general practice, child health, sexual health, obstetrics, public health
• Specialist experience in one or more areas of practice eg ADHD, ASD, audiology

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Able to demonstrate an understanding of how working in community settings differs from hospital
• Ability to assess a normal child and to recognise and appropriately manage abnormality
• Willingness to work without immediate supervision but with an awareness of one's individuals limitations
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to manage time effectively
• Capacity to take in others' perspectives and treat others with understanding
• Contribution to team work, experience of communicating with other disciplines
• Capacity to manage difficult situations under pressure. Demonstrates initiative & resilience to cope with changing circumstances. Ability to work independently
• Capacity to achieve a balance between urgent and important demands
• Have demonstrable skills in written and spoken English adequate to enable effective communication about medical topics with patients and colleagues

Desirable

• Demonstrated ability to work unsupervised and make decisions
• Demonstrated ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively eg report writing, thesis

Teaching, Audit & Research

Essential

• Participation in research or clinical audit
• Willingness to take part in teaching
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Desirable

• Conducting audit and research
• Demonstrated ability or experience in teaching
• Formal training in research or teaching methods

Management

Essential

• Understanding of management issues including medical discipline, clinical governance, service planning
• Willingness to participate in service developments

Desirable

• Willingness to manage eg project work mentoring junior staff

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

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).