Specialty doctor in Paediatrics with CESR programme

Job description

Job responsibilities

Direct Clinical Care

• Facilitate the assessment, treatment and admission of children referred to the paediatric department.
• Initiate emergency management of patients within the emergency department.
• Undertake the assessment and management of patients in outpatient clinic.
• Review of babies on the postnatal wards where there are concerns regarding illness, feeding issues or congenital anomalies.
• Stabilisation of preterm and unwell term babies, including admission to SCBU where appropriate and their continued management on SCBU.
• Provide senior paediatric medical support to other departments, such as Accident and Emergency, surgery and anaesthetics, as required.
• Liaison with other specialties and agencies including primary care.
• To develop patient management plans including necessary investigations and treatments, fully discussing the implications of these with the parents.
• Requesting diagnostic tests (such as X-Ray and laboratory investigations).
• Performing practical skills, including cannulation (including premature neonates), lumbar punctures, intubation of neonates and UVC/UAC insertion.
• Supervise and provide advice, support and instruction to junior staff and nursing staff within the department.
• Undertake a senior role in the hospital paediatric and neonatal resuscitation teams, and in the resuscitation of seriously ill babies and children.
• Act in accordance with the policies of the Paediatric Department and the Trust and seek advice and assistance from the consultants when necessary.
• Ensure accurate and complete documentation is undertaken for all patient records in line with Trust protocols.
• Undertake clinical discussions with parents and children, maintaining confidentiality at all times.
• Communicate effectively with other healthcare professionals in and out of the Trust (eg. specialty teams, GPs about patient care when appropriate).
• To work proactively with medical, nursing and other healthcare colleagues for the development of good working relationships.

Supporting Professional Activities

• Participate in and contribute towards the formal and informal training and assessment of colleagues, junior doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, students and other health care professionals eg. ad hoc training and supervision, tutorials and lectures.
• Maintain an up-to-date record of personal training to satisfy continuous professional development requirements.
• Rotate to different specialities within and out of the Trust according to CESR training needs.
• Actively participate in middle grade teaching programme.
• Assist in Trust clinical risk management requirements and work within the clinical governance framework as agreed with the Trust.
• Undertake and contribute to clinical audit projects.
• Clinical Management duties as delegated by and agreed with the paediatric consultants.
• Ensure regular appraisal is held in accordance with Trust policy.
• Undertake mentoring of junior doctors under the guidance of the consultants.
• Maintain APLS and NLS provider certification (this can be arranged prior to appointment if necessary).
• Participate in monitoring arrangements for hours of work.
• Deputise from time to time for absent colleagues, and exceptionally, perform additional duties in occasional emergencies and unforeseen circumstances to ensure the safe running of the Department.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• MBChB or equivalent medical qualification
• APLS and NLS or equivalent provider status (needs to be in place prior to commencement of post, or within a month of starting)
• Evidence of achievement of ST3 competences in Paediatrics at time of application, or likelihood of achieving these by the start date of the post. This includes experience in paediatric emergencies and neonates.

Desirable

• Experience in District General Hospital practice.

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Harrogate Hospital

Harrogate

HG2 7SX

Employer's website

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