Consultant community paediatrician

Job responsibilities

1. Responsibility for client care

The successful applicant would be expected to lead in or contribute as needed to the following clinical areas:

• Neuro-disability: Leading Specialist multidisciplinary complex neuro-disability assessment clinics in collaboration with multidisciplinary team members and single review clinics for follow up assessment.

1. Communication and relationship skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills required
• To provide, receive and organise information (which may be complex/sensitive) liaising with other teams, internal and external agencies
• To motivate and lead through staff involvement and development to ensure clinical excellence and parity of service for all children on the caseload
• To work proactively with the wider team to achieve service objectives.
• Partnership working and excellent communication with tertiary and secondary centres for the management of children requiring additional specialist interventions

1. Knowledge, training and experience

• Ability to use IT and to be able to keep high quality electronic clinical records
• Experience of supervising and supporting less experienced doctors and the ability to work in conjunction with nurses and therapists to develop the pathway
• Excellent time management skills and ability to prioritise own workload
• Evidence of continued professional development
• To keep up to date with statutory and mandatory training.
• To be able to demonstrate high quality evidence based practice in the field of neurodevelopmental conditions.
• To ensure that clinical practice is evidence based and effective.
• To provide an overview of referral, assessment and treatment pathways.
• Ensure compliance with national guidelines, and to develop collection and use of outcome measures.
• To ensure appropriate clinical leadership, supervision, appraisal and development arrangements are in place.
• To promote a culture of continuous quality improvement and participate in the Trust Quality Improvement programme.
• To carry out investigations of and implement recommendations following incidents and complaints.
• To ensure the service operates in accordance with MCH priorities, policies and protocols.
• To ensure the development and review of clinical Policies and Procedures and responses to reports/audits by external groups and agencies.
• To ensure that proper arrangements are in place to safeguard children and adults.

1. Analytical and judgement skills

• Excellent decision making and diagnostic skills required
• Responsible for differential diagnosis through a range of appropriate tests (formal and informal)

1. Planning and organisational skills

• Responsible for prioritising and managing own workload and being able to work under pressure in order to meet tight timescales and deadlines whilst managing conflicting demands.
• Support and undertake audit and research projects
• Lead on service planning and development jointly with lead therapists.

1. Physical skills

• Ability to travel between diverse sites across Medway.
• Strong IT skills

1. Responsibility for policy and service development implementation

• To follow and implement organisational policies and procedures.
• To develop and propose changes to service model to ensure on-going best practice
• To report service developments particularly around medication to the medical director

1. Responsibilities for financial and physical resources

• To demonstrate and apply a sound understanding of Clinical Governance and risk management to the work situation and manage clinical risk within your own caseload and that of less senior staff.
• To be aware of Health and Safety Policies with the Medway Community Healthcare CIC and other areas of work and propose changes to service model to ensure on-going best practise

1. Responsibilities for human resources (HR)

• Line Manager and supervision for one associate specialist within the team including appraisals, discipline, allocation of work.
• To share specialist knowledge through training for the workforce in childrens services

1. Responsibilities for information resources

• Regular requirement to operate IT systems to monitor caseloads, maintain clinical records and update head of service as required
• To support the Head of Service by providing accurate and regular reporting of incidents, risk and compliance outcomes

1. Responsibilities for research and development (R&D)

• To lead and participate in research and audit opportunities within specialist area of knowledge around paediatric conditions, including contribution to national research programmes

1. Freedom to act

• Provide management to speciality doctors within service and leadership across childrens service
• Works on own initiative, guided by defined parameters, and manages and priorities own work
• Works within GMC, BACCH and RCPCH code of conduct and best practice guidance
• Follows organisation policies and procedures.

Qualifications

Essential

• MRCP, MRCPCH by examination or equivalent
• Full GMC registration
• On the GMC specialist register

Desirable

• Higher degree e.g. MSc, MD or other higher degree
• DCH, DCCH, MBA or other relevant diplomas

Experience

Essential

• Experience in community paediatrics

Desirable

• Experience in other areas relevant to child health e.g. general practice, child mental health, obstetrics, public health
• ADOS trained with up to date validation of this

Special knowledge / expertise

Essential

• Willing to work unsupervised and make decisions
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to manage time effectively
• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team

Desirable

• Demonstrated ability to work unsupervised and make decisions
• Demonstrated ability to lead a multi-disciplinary team
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively e.g. report writing; thesis

Disposition and attitude

Essential

• Should demonstrate professional and approachable behaviours in line with the organisation's values
• Self-motivated and enthusiastic
• Self-aware and keen to develop themselves and others
• Able to lead and motivate staff

Practical/intellectual skills

Essential

• Excellent communication and keyboard skills
• Participation in research or clinical audit
• Participation in departmental teaching
• Understanding of management issues including medical management; clinical governance, service planning and quality improvement

Desirable

• Formal research training; demonstrated ability to design a research or audit project
• Formal training in teaching methods; demonstrated ability in teaching / training
• Willingness to lead service developments

Values

Essential

• Caring and compassionate
• Working in partnership
• Delivering quality and value

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

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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).