Job summary
Specialist Doctor in Community PaediatricsMid Sussex Child Development Centre, Haywards Heath
10 PAs per week (Less than full time applicants will also be considered).
This is an excellent opportunity to join a dynamic community paediatric team based at the Mid Sussex Child Development Centre in Haywards Heath.
The successful applicant will join a team of 4 consultants (2.1 WTE), to participate in all aspects of community paediatric work. The team are actively involved in training and there is one ST4/5paediatric trainee and a foundation doctor (FY2) at the Child Development Centre.
The community paediatric team is based at the Mid Sussex Child Development Centre in Haywards Heath, along with the multidisciplinary therapy team, and LAC health teams. There are close links with CAMHS, University Hospitals Sussex, and with Education and Social Services within West Sussex Council. The Centre provides a bright, spacious and family friendly environment for multidisciplinary working. The team have always placed an emphasis on innovation and service development.
We offer a friendly, welcoming, supportive and experienced team environment ready to support the development of a new Specialist Doctor or equally a more experienced doctor seeking a new challenge. We are looking for candidates who are innovative and flexible, committed to multidisciplinary working and will actively participate in developing new approaches to the delivery of high-quality child health services.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will take on an area of lead responsibility for the department. Possible areas include aspects of Neurodisability, SEN, SARC, Children Looked After and Education and Research. The post holder will be encouraged and supported to undertake further training when in post if needed. There is a requirement for the post holder to support the teaching of medical students from Brighton and Sussex Medical School, and in supervising paediatric trainees within the Mid Sussex team.
The Sussex Children's Sexual Assault Referral Centre is located at Seaside View Child Development Centre, in Brighton and the successful applicant can choose to join the daytime and weekend rota for this service, with training provided if needed.
About us
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex. Our 6,000 staff serve a population of 1.3 million providing essential medical, nursing, and therapeutic care to adults and children.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community, helping people plan, manage, adapt to changes in their health, supporting avoidable hospital admissions and reducing hospital stay times.
We have opportunities for everyone across our wide variety of services including medical, clinical, support and corporate services.
Why work for us?
- Positive 2023 NHS Staff Survey results, scoring highly in compassionate culture & leadership, and staff wellbeing support
- Variety of working environments across the community, in patients' homes, within our community hospitals and bases across the county
- Supportive flexible working patterns such as: part time, flexi time, annualised hours, and flexi retirement options
- Excellent training and development opportunities
- Research opportunities
- Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
- Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
- Level 3 accredited Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
- Veteran Aware Trust, achieving accreditation from Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA)
- Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast
- Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff
Job description
Job responsibilities
Applicants must have valid registration with the GMC and a License to Practice and must demonstrate they meet the entry criteria for the Specialist grade.
The department is committed to teaching and provides clinical and research placements for students from Brighton and Sussex Medical School.
For an informal discussion about the post please contact Dr Naomi Elson, Medical Lead (01444 414100 or naomi.elson1@nhs.net )
Job description
Job responsibilities
Applicants must have valid registration with the GMC and a License to Practice and must demonstrate they meet the entry criteria for the Specialist grade.
The department is committed to teaching and provides clinical and research placements for students from Brighton and Sussex Medical School.
For an informal discussion about the post please contact Dr Naomi Elson, Medical Lead (01444 414100 or naomi.elson1@nhs.net )
Person Specification
Qualifications / Years of Training
Essential
- Recognised Basic Medical Degree
- MRCPCH
- Full GMC registration and Licence to Practice
- Able to travel to meet the requirements of the job
- Minimum 12 years medical work (either continuous period or in aggregate) since obtaining a primary medical qualification of which a minimum of six years should have been in a relevant specialty in the Specialty Doctor and/or closed SAS grades. Equivalent years' experience in a relevant specialty from other medical grades including from overseas will also be accepted
- Ability to use IT and standard Microsoft packages
Desirable
- Relevant Higher degree or management qualification/training
Professional Values and Behaviours, Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- 1.1 Practises with the professional values and behaviours expected of all doctors as set out in GMC Good Medical Practice and the Generic Professional Capabilities Framework (or equivalent for dentists).
- 1.2 Demonstrates the underpinning subject-specific competences i.e. knowledge, skills and behaviours relevant to the role setting and scope.
- 1.3 Clinically evaluates and manages a patient, formulating a prioritised differential diagnosis, initiating an appropriate management plan, and reviewing and adjusting this depending on the outcomes of treatment.
- 1.4 Manages the difficulties of dealing with complexity and uncertainty in the care of patients; employing expertise and clinical decision-making skills of a senior and
- 1.5 Critically reflects on own competence, understands own limits, and seeks help when required.
- 1.6 Communicates effectively and is able to share decision - making with patients, relatives and carers; treats patients as individuals, promoting a person -centred approach to their care, including self - management.
- 1.7 Respects patients' dignity, ensures confidentiality and appropriate communication where potentially difficult or where barriers exist, e.g. using interpreters and making adjustments for patients with communication difficulties.
- 1.8 Demonstrates key generic clinical skills around the areas of consent; ensuring humane interventions, prescribing medicines safely and using medical devices safely.
- 1.9 Adheres to professional requirements, participating in annual appraisal, job planning and reviews of performance and progression.
- 1.10 Awareness of legal responsibilities relevant to the role, such as around mental capacity and deprivation of
- 1.11 Applies basic principles of public health; including population health, promoting health and wellbeing, work, nutrition, exercise, vaccination and illness prevention, as relevant to their specialty.
Desirable
Leadership and Teamworking
Essential
- 2.1 Awareness of their leadership responsibilities as a clinician and demonstrates appropriate leadership behaviour; managing situations that are unfamiliar, complex or unpredictable and seeking to build collaboration with, and confidence in, others.
- 2.2 Demonstrates understanding of a range of leadership principles, approaches and techniques so can adapt leadership behaviours to improve engagement and outcomes - appreciates own leadership style and its impact on others.
- 2.3 Develops effective relationships across teams and contributes to work and success of these teams - promotes and participates in both multidisciplinary and interprofessional team working
- 2.4 Critically reflects on decision-making processes and explains those decisions to others in an honest and transparent way.
- 2.5 Critically appraises performance of self, colleagues or peers and systems to enhance performance and support development.
- 2.6 Demonstrates ability to challenge others, escalating concerns when necessary.
- 2.7 Develops practice in response to changing population health need, engaging in horizon scanning for future developments.
Desirable
Patient Safety and Quality Improvement
Essential
- 3.1 Takes prompt action where there is an issue with the safety or quality of patient care, raises and escalates concerns, through clinical governance systems, where necessary.
- 3.2 Applies basic human factors principles and practice at individual, team, organisation and system levels.
- 3.3 Collaborates with multidisciplinary and interprofessional teams to manage risk and issues across organisations and settings, with respect for and recognition of the roles of other health professionals.
- 3.4 Advocates for, and contributes to, organisational learning.
- 3.5 Seeks feedback and involvement from individuals, families, carers, communities and colleagues in safety and quality service improvements reviews.
- 3.6 Leads new practice and service redesign in response to feedback, evaluation and need, promoting best practice
- 3.7 Evaluates and audits own and others' clinical practice and acts on the findings.
- 3.8 Reflects on personal behaviour and practice, responding to learning opportunities.
- 3.9 Implements quality improvement methods and repeats quality improvement cycles to refine practice; designing projects and evaluating their impact
- 3.10 Critically appraises and synthesises the outcomes of audit, inquiries, critical incidents or complaints and implements appropriate changes.
- 3.11 Engages with relevant stakeholders to develop and implement robust governance systems and systematic documentation processes.
Desirable
Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups
Essential
- 4.1 Recognises and takes responsibility for safeguarding children, young people and adults, using appropriate systems for identifying, sharing information, recording and raising concerns, obtaining advice and taking action.
- 4.2 Applies appropriate equality and diversity legislation, including disability discrimination requirements, in the context of patient care.
Desirable
Education and Training
Essential
- 5.1 Critically assesses own learning needs and ensures a personal development plan reflects both clinical practice and the relevant generic capabilities to lead and develop services.
- 5.2 Promotes and participates in individual and team learning; supporting the
- 5.3 Identifies and creates safe and supportive working and learning environments.
- 5.4 Can act as a role model, educator, supervisor, coach or mentor for medical and nonmedical practitio
- 5.5 Creates effective learning opportunities and provides developmental feedback, both verbally and in writing, to learners and doctors/dentists in training, as required by the role.
- 5.6 Plans and provides effective teaching and training activities as required by the role.
- 5.7 Understands how to raise concerns about the behaviour or performance of any learner who is under their clinical supervision (leadership).
- 5.8 Takes part in patient education
Desirable
Research and Scholarship
Essential
- 6.1 Keeps up-to-date with current research and best practice in the individual's specific area of practice, through appropriate continuing professional development activities and their own independent study and reflection
- 6.2 Critically appraises and understands the relevance of the literature, conducting literature searches and reviews; disseminates best practice including from quality improvement projects.
- 6.3 Locates and uses clinical guidelines appropriately.
- 6.4 Communicates and interprets research evidence in a meaningful way for patients to support shared decision-making.
- 6.5 Works towards identifying the need for further research to strengthen the evidence base or where there are gaps in knowledge, networking with teams within and outside the organisation
Desirable
Person Specification
Qualifications / Years of Training
Essential
- Recognised Basic Medical Degree
- MRCPCH
- Full GMC registration and Licence to Practice
- Able to travel to meet the requirements of the job
- Minimum 12 years medical work (either continuous period or in aggregate) since obtaining a primary medical qualification of which a minimum of six years should have been in a relevant specialty in the Specialty Doctor and/or closed SAS grades. Equivalent years' experience in a relevant specialty from other medical grades including from overseas will also be accepted
- Ability to use IT and standard Microsoft packages
Desirable
- Relevant Higher degree or management qualification/training
Professional Values and Behaviours, Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- 1.1 Practises with the professional values and behaviours expected of all doctors as set out in GMC Good Medical Practice and the Generic Professional Capabilities Framework (or equivalent for dentists).
- 1.2 Demonstrates the underpinning subject-specific competences i.e. knowledge, skills and behaviours relevant to the role setting and scope.
- 1.3 Clinically evaluates and manages a patient, formulating a prioritised differential diagnosis, initiating an appropriate management plan, and reviewing and adjusting this depending on the outcomes of treatment.
- 1.4 Manages the difficulties of dealing with complexity and uncertainty in the care of patients; employing expertise and clinical decision-making skills of a senior and
- 1.5 Critically reflects on own competence, understands own limits, and seeks help when required.
- 1.6 Communicates effectively and is able to share decision - making with patients, relatives and carers; treats patients as individuals, promoting a person -centred approach to their care, including self - management.
- 1.7 Respects patients' dignity, ensures confidentiality and appropriate communication where potentially difficult or where barriers exist, e.g. using interpreters and making adjustments for patients with communication difficulties.
- 1.8 Demonstrates key generic clinical skills around the areas of consent; ensuring humane interventions, prescribing medicines safely and using medical devices safely.
- 1.9 Adheres to professional requirements, participating in annual appraisal, job planning and reviews of performance and progression.
- 1.10 Awareness of legal responsibilities relevant to the role, such as around mental capacity and deprivation of
- 1.11 Applies basic principles of public health; including population health, promoting health and wellbeing, work, nutrition, exercise, vaccination and illness prevention, as relevant to their specialty.
Desirable
Leadership and Teamworking
Essential
- 2.1 Awareness of their leadership responsibilities as a clinician and demonstrates appropriate leadership behaviour; managing situations that are unfamiliar, complex or unpredictable and seeking to build collaboration with, and confidence in, others.
- 2.2 Demonstrates understanding of a range of leadership principles, approaches and techniques so can adapt leadership behaviours to improve engagement and outcomes - appreciates own leadership style and its impact on others.
- 2.3 Develops effective relationships across teams and contributes to work and success of these teams - promotes and participates in both multidisciplinary and interprofessional team working
- 2.4 Critically reflects on decision-making processes and explains those decisions to others in an honest and transparent way.
- 2.5 Critically appraises performance of self, colleagues or peers and systems to enhance performance and support development.
- 2.6 Demonstrates ability to challenge others, escalating concerns when necessary.
- 2.7 Develops practice in response to changing population health need, engaging in horizon scanning for future developments.
Desirable
Patient Safety and Quality Improvement
Essential
- 3.1 Takes prompt action where there is an issue with the safety or quality of patient care, raises and escalates concerns, through clinical governance systems, where necessary.
- 3.2 Applies basic human factors principles and practice at individual, team, organisation and system levels.
- 3.3 Collaborates with multidisciplinary and interprofessional teams to manage risk and issues across organisations and settings, with respect for and recognition of the roles of other health professionals.
- 3.4 Advocates for, and contributes to, organisational learning.
- 3.5 Seeks feedback and involvement from individuals, families, carers, communities and colleagues in safety and quality service improvements reviews.
- 3.6 Leads new practice and service redesign in response to feedback, evaluation and need, promoting best practice
- 3.7 Evaluates and audits own and others' clinical practice and acts on the findings.
- 3.8 Reflects on personal behaviour and practice, responding to learning opportunities.
- 3.9 Implements quality improvement methods and repeats quality improvement cycles to refine practice; designing projects and evaluating their impact
- 3.10 Critically appraises and synthesises the outcomes of audit, inquiries, critical incidents or complaints and implements appropriate changes.
- 3.11 Engages with relevant stakeholders to develop and implement robust governance systems and systematic documentation processes.
Desirable
Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups
Essential
- 4.1 Recognises and takes responsibility for safeguarding children, young people and adults, using appropriate systems for identifying, sharing information, recording and raising concerns, obtaining advice and taking action.
- 4.2 Applies appropriate equality and diversity legislation, including disability discrimination requirements, in the context of patient care.
Desirable
Education and Training
Essential
- 5.1 Critically assesses own learning needs and ensures a personal development plan reflects both clinical practice and the relevant generic capabilities to lead and develop services.
- 5.2 Promotes and participates in individual and team learning; supporting the
- 5.3 Identifies and creates safe and supportive working and learning environments.
- 5.4 Can act as a role model, educator, supervisor, coach or mentor for medical and nonmedical practitio
- 5.5 Creates effective learning opportunities and provides developmental feedback, both verbally and in writing, to learners and doctors/dentists in training, as required by the role.
- 5.6 Plans and provides effective teaching and training activities as required by the role.
- 5.7 Understands how to raise concerns about the behaviour or performance of any learner who is under their clinical supervision (leadership).
- 5.8 Takes part in patient education
Desirable
Research and Scholarship
Essential
- 6.1 Keeps up-to-date with current research and best practice in the individual's specific area of practice, through appropriate continuing professional development activities and their own independent study and reflection
- 6.2 Critically appraises and understands the relevance of the literature, conducting literature searches and reviews; disseminates best practice including from quality improvement projects.
- 6.3 Locates and uses clinical guidelines appropriately.
- 6.4 Communicates and interprets research evidence in a meaningful way for patients to support shared decision-making.
- 6.5 Works towards identifying the need for further research to strengthen the evidence base or where there are gaps in knowledge, networking with teams within and outside the organisation
Desirable
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).
Additional information
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).
