Consultant Community Paediatrician

Job responsibilities

Cambridgeshire Community Services (CCS) provides community paediatric services across the East of England. Cambridgeshire Community Paediatrics provides a wide range of neurodevelopmental and neurodisabiltiy services in Cambridgeshire as well as a Monday to Friday child protection/ safeguarding service and Child in Care Service across both Cambridge and Peterborough. The Trust also provides community paediatric services across its Luton and Bedfordshire and Norfolk portfolios.

These are two newly created posts to support and develop services for Children in Care (CIC) in Peterborough, supporting the medical assessment of those children and contributing to the Cambridge and Peterborough safeguarding medical rota. This is a new service to CCS and there are opportunities to develop these services further. Part of this role will be based in Peterborough and there is opportunity to support neurodevelopmental services in the north of Cambridgeshire. This can be developed in post depending on the candidates previous experience and interests. Ideally this would be a Consultant post but Specialist Doctors with appropriate experience and qualifications would be considered.

Children in Care children face a range of mental and physical difficulties, they require professionals who have some understanding of the unique and diverse challenges that they face. They have some of the poorest health outcomes of all children in the country. We are looking for staff to join the Cambridgeshire Community Paediatric Team to support and develop this service. Candidates should show a commitment to developing this service where there are high rates of deprivation, English as a second language, and complex health care needs in unaccompanied minors.

This is a 10PA job with 8 DCC and 2 SPA, there is no out of hours service commitment.

Cambridgeshire Community Services (CCS) is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust is part of a Group model with Norfolk Community Health and Care Trust, and we are working through the processes to become a new organisation in April 2026. We will provide Childrens services in Bedford, Cambridgeshire, Luton, Milton Keynes, Norfolk, Peterborough, and Waveney. There will be exciting opportunities to develop services across the East of England for Children and Young People together.

Job Purpose:

1. To join the Cambridgeshire Community Paediatric Team to understand and assess the health needs of children and young people who are Looked After /In Care (including those who are being considered for adoption) in Peterborough.
2. To identify health needs and develop appropriate health plans.
3. Support and liaise with other members of the Child in Care Team and attend CiC team meeting
4. Support the community neurodevelopmental/neuro disability paediatric services based in and around the North of Cambridgeshire i.e. Wisbech and Fenland areas.
5. Contribute to the safeguarding medical rota, which is currently based at the Oaktree Centre in Huntingdon, this is a 5 day non urgent medical rota of 1 in 10.
6. We would consider candidates who are not applying for consultant grade posts but who have appropriate experience and skills (pay scales would be dependent on grade)
7. We would also consider candidates who were looking for more flexible working, if this could be accommodated within the service.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

1. Undertake statutory CIC (Looked after Children) /adoption health assessments including those with complex healthcare needs principally based in Peterborough but to support where needed CiC work in Cambridgeshire.
2. Formulate meaningful individual healthcare plan/adoption report.
3. Advise other agencies regarding the health management of individual looked after children
4. Develop services to support this role and to lead on relevant audits of service provision, including multiagency audits in conjunction with others. Support the Cambridgeshire Adoption Medical Advisor Contribute to the child protection medical service which runs across C&P but is based at the Oaktree Centre in Huntingdon. This is a non-urgent service which runs Monday to Friday, it does not include child sexual abuse.
5. Support neurodevelopmental services in the north of the County.

Communication

1. The post holder will, be expected to have excellent communication skills both spoken and written to allow effective communication within a team of clinical and non-clinical staff in both health, education and social care.
2. They will be expected to work with in multi-disciplinary teams including:

a. Community team, paediatricians, psychologists, therapist and community nursesb. Educational colleagues, SEND, SENCOs, Educational Psychologistsc. Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) colleaguesd. Acute paediatric colleaguese. Social services

People Management

1. Maintaining own professional development via annual appraisal.
2. Teaching and supervision of trainees, including medical students from the University of Cambridge and Paediatric Specialty Trainees from the Eastern Deanery as well as trainees from other allied health professions.
3. Support good medical practice through clinical supervision, education and training, reviews of safety and quality, team working and clinical leadership.

Research & Development Activity

1. The post-holder will be encouraged to undertake research and service development and evaluation as part of their clinical practice and CPD with support from the CCS Research Team. CCS is research active and there are many opportunities to develop research interest both within CCs and with other agencies.
2. There are regular internal CPD activities for clinical staff and multi-disciplinary training with colleagues from other professional groups disciplines and external agencies.
3. There is an active Community Paediatric Clinical network across the East of England and regular education meetings and forum through Cambridge University Hospital (CUH) Foundation Trust.

Clinical and Practice Governance

1. Observe and maintain strict confidentiality with regards to any patient/family/staff/records and information in line with the requirements of the Data Protection Act.
2. Any data that is taken/shared as part of a phone call or transported, faxed or transferred electronically must be undertaken regarding the Trust Information Governance and Information Security policies.
3. The post holder must adhere to the Trust risk assessment and risk management processes
4. The post holder must adhere to infection control policies and procedures
5. It is a condition of your employment that you are currently registered with GMC, and it is your responsibility to maintain your professional registration.
6. Undertake mandatory training and any other training relevant to the role as required by Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust.
7. The post holder must participate in clinical and safeguarding audits as required
8. The post holder is required to participate in relevant emergency preparedness process for their team.

Qualifications and Training

Essential

• Full registration with the GMC
• Higher medical qualification appropriate to the role MRCPCH or equivalent
• Level three safeguarding experience

Desirable

• Higher degree e.g. MSc, MD, PhD

Experience

Essential

• Experience of the specific health and developmental needs of children and young people who are vulnerable and part of the care system.
• Relevant experience working with children within a community setting
• Experience of multidisciplinary working
• Experience of adult health issues that affect the ability of adults to meet the needs of children placed in their care.
• General community /developmental paediatrics
• Valid BLS training

Desirable

• Previous experience of working with children and families within the care system

Skills

Essential

• Communicate effectively with children and young people including those with complex needs
• Able to review, summarise and interpret information from a range of sources (e.g. write a chronology/summary for adoption report)
• Able to convey complex information in an accessible manner to other professionals and adults involved in the care of looked after/children undergoing adoption
• Meets the requirements of the GMC's 'Good Medical Practice Ability' to organise and manage own workload

Desirable

• Knowledge of risk management, annual job planning, appraisal review process etc.

Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults

Essential

• Ability to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults
• Demonstrates understanding of safeguarding issues
• Appreciates the significance of safeguarding and interprets this accurately for all individual children and young people/vulnerable adults whatever their life circumstances.

Academic

Essential

• Evidence of participation in clinical audit/QI project, understanding the role of these in improving the medical practice
• Experience and knowledge of critical appraisal of evidence, so as to improve clinical outcomes
• Willingness to teach all grades of professional multidisciplinary staff

Desirable

• Teaching Experience
• 'Training the Trainers' certification

Management

Essential

• Understanding of medical management with regard to clinical governance, service planning and quality improvement.

Desirable

• Evidence of leadership and service development

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.

UK Registration

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