Consultant Community Paediatrician

Job responsibilities

Clinical Responsibilities:

The post holder will work in all aspects of Community Paediatrics, suited to their experience and competencies and the priorities of service provision.

The post holder will undertake assessment and management of children with neurodevelopmental concerns and safeguarding.

Undertake neurodevelopmental assessments including for Autism and Social Communication Disorders.

Participate in the consultant-led Child Protection rota.

Undertake health assessments for Looked After Children and provide written reports as appropriate.

Support and advice colleagues in the clinical assessment and care of children and young people, whilst being clear about others personal clinical professional accountability.

Provision of supervision to trainees and specialist doctors and extended members of the clinical team including clinical nurse specialists and AHPs.

General responsibilities

To participate in clinical supervision and continuing professional development of both career and training grade medical staff

To work with Community Paediatric services and Childrens Community Services Directorate to meet service commitments and needs of children and families.

To develop care pathways across the acute and community services

To participate in the development of Specialist Child Health Services in collaboration with other members of the management team

To support the collection of relevant information on the work of the medical team, detailing the work of the service for stakeholders.

To liaise with other agencies on clinical and operational matters relevant to the work of the service.

Provide advice and signposting to other professionals about legal processes, key research and policy documents.

Liaise with professional leads from other agencies, such as Education and Childrens Social care.

Research

To participate in the departmental research planning and implementation

Interest in relevant areas of research will be encouraged.

Performance Management

To work with clinical and managerial colleagues to ensure high performance in the following areas:

Clinical efficiency and Quality of outcomes

Timely completion and correction of reports

Medical Education & Teaching:

To take part in clinical and educational supervision of post graduate trainees.

To participate in the medical student training programme.

To plan and deliver training for GP trainees and other post-graduate teaching.

Contribute to the delivery of training for health staff and inter-agency training.

Work with leads to identify and support training needs.

Clinical Audit and Clinical Governance:

Participate in clinical audit, incident reporting and analysis and to ensure resulting actions are implemented.

Work closely with the Directorate, Patient and Public Involvement panels in relation to clinical and services developments as delegated.

Participate in ensuring NICE requirements are reviewed and implemented and monitored in the speciality areas.

To ensure clinical guidelines and protocols are adhered to by medical staff and updated on a regular basis.

Review clinical outcomes in designated area using external benchmarking data where appropriate, to identify and advise variances to the Clinical Director.

To keep fully informed about best practice in the speciality areas and ensure implications for practice changes are discussed with the Clinical Director.

To role model good practice for infection control to all members of the multidisciplinary team.

Continuing Professional Development:

Attend relevant local, regional, and national continuing professional development activities to maintain competence.

Meet the organisations requirements for training attendance.

Receive regular supervision and undertake reflective practice.

Policy, Planning and Management:

Support the Trust to deliver quality patient care Contribute to the development of clinical and organisational protocols and guidelines

Assist in the development of the Annual Service Plan for the Directorate and Division and participate in the strategic planning of the service Comply with all Trust policies

Essential

Essential

• Medical degree, MBBS or equalivalent
• Member of Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health or equivalent
• Full and Specialist registration and with a licence to practise with the GMC or be eligible for registration within six months of interview
• Applicants that are UK trained, must also be a holder of a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT), or be within six months of award of CCT by date of interview

Desirable

• Grid Training in Community paediatrics
• MSc/Diploma in community child health or equivalent

Clinical experience

Essential

• Comprehensive Training and experience in community paediatrics
• Evidence of training and experience gained obtaining CCT in Community Child Health (CCH) or if CCT in General Paediatrics, must be able to demonstrate equivalent competencies required for CCT in CCH have been achieved
• At least 2 years' experience in Community Child Health including Neuro-developmental paediatrics, Safeguarding, Looked after children
• Training and experience in the identification and management of suspected child abuse
• Clinical experience in the field of safeguarding and substantial experience of the legislation relating to children and young people and the court process.
• Experience of working with vulnerable children and young people and families and children in challenging situations.
• Valid APLS and NLS training
• Valid level 3 safeguarding training

Desirable

• Training and experience in assessment of ADHD
• Experience of lead role in an area of child health
• Broad experience of working within the NHS

Clinical Audit

Essential

• Active audit interest demonstrated by at least one completed clinical audit in the last year
• Understanding of NHS systems and audit processes
• Evidence of service improvement projects and audits

Desirable

• Publication of audit results.
• Experience in service development and quality improvement projects relating to Community Child Health
• Evidence of involvement and /or experience in risk processes such as Serious Incident reviews and patient safety systems

Teaching Experience

Essential

• Experience and interest in undergraduate teaching
• Skill and ability in formal and informal teaching for both under/ postgraduate students and nursing/midwifery staf
• Educational supervision accreditation

Desirable

• An understanding of current issues in medical education and training
• Previous experience in trainee Supervision
• Knowledge of current changes in paediatric training
• Higher teaching qualification
• Publications in peer reviewed journals

Management and Administrative Experience

Essential

• Understands the management structure of the NHS Evidence of risk management

IT skills

Essential

• Ability to use Microsoft office packages, e.g. MS Word, Excel, Access & PowerPoint.
• Ability to use patient information systems

Other Attributes

Essential

• Effective communicator - verbal and written
• Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Demonstrates leadership and organisational skills
• Evidence of interest/training in management
• Will contribute to Departmental/ Trust management
• Will pursue personal professional development
• Will assist with Departmental/ Trust development
• Aware of equal opportunities issues
• Recent experience/familiarity of UK hospital systems and practices
• Ability to lead a team and form effective working relationships
• Ability to inspire, motivate and develop staff

Desirable

• Has experience of committee work and prepared to undertake committee work

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).