Consultant Community Paediatrician, Lead for Neurodisability

Job summary

Are you a Community Paediatrician looking to join a team of enthusiastic and supportive colleagues, with a strong emphasis on effective teamwork, professional development and departmental wellbeing?

This post provides an opportunity to pursue a diverse specialist community paediatric post, without any on call commitment

This is a substantive Consultant post in Community Paediatrics, for the post including the Lead for Neurodisability, due to the current post holder retiring.

Greenwich Community Paediatric Services is part of the Children and Young People Directorate (CYPD). The Consultant will be part of a team of 5.0 WTE Consultants, 1 WTE Locum Consultant, 5.0 WTE Specialty Grade (SAS) doctors, 0.4 WTE Clinical Psychologist and 1 WTE Specialty Higher Trainee.

We are offering a retention incentive in addition to the salary and London weighting. Because we want to recruit the very best team, we are offering external new starters a retention incentive of £5,000 when they start and commit to working with us for one year. Beyond that, a further £5,000 will be paid if a commitment is made to remain in post for a further two years. Any payment made will be on a pro rata basis for part time appointments.

Main duties of the job

The consultant will provide a high level of clinical expertise and leadership, both for the team for which they are responsible and in borough-wide services.

RESPONSIBILITIES: (further on JD)

1. To provide assessment and case management of children and young people with complex neuro-disability and special needs. The Consultant has overall responsibility for their own caseload, which may have children from across the borough.
2. To supervise and teach Specialty Grade Paediatricians (SAS) and Specialty Trainees carrying out assessment and management of children with complex needs.
3. Provide clinical input to multi-disciplinary clinics/meetings for the assessment of children with complex disability and special needs.
4. Provide medical advice to Local Authority Children's Services according to statutory legislation and guidance for Looked after Children. Clinical work may be carried out by the Speciality Doctors but children with complex Neurodisability remain on the Consultant caseload and they will have overall responsibility.

About us

At Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, we offer a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people living in South-East London and to people in prison across England. Our wide array of services includes community health care, such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies.

Oxleas is a great place to work. It has been recognised as one of the Top 10 Best Places to Work 2023 by the Sunday Times amongst very big employers. Our staff survey results show that we are in the Top 5 in England and the highest in London for staff experience amongst similar trusts.

"We are always delighted to welcome new colleagues to the Oxleas family. We care about making Oxleas a great place to work - it's a big priority in our strategy. Come and join us - it's a place where our values, teamwork, equity, and wellbeing matter and where you can really help to improve people's lives."

Ify Okocha

Chief Executive

Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

High Point House

135 Shooters Hill

London

SE18 3SA

Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

High Point House

135 Shooters Hill

London

SE18 3SA

Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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