Job summary
Consultant in Paediatrics
This is a fantastic opportunity to join our highly regarded Paediatrics team: a dynamic, enthusiastic and supportive group of staff based in a diverse and exciting part of London. We are passionate about providing outstanding joined up care for our patients and their families and are always looking for ways to develop and improve the service, in line with the changing needs of our service users.
This is a permanent position based at Homerton Hospital for 10 PAs.
The post-holder will be fully accredited in General Paediatrics and will have appropriate experience as in the job description
Main duties of the job
Consultant Post in General Paediatrics
permeant contract - 10 PAs
Our Mission:
Safe, compassionate, effective care provided to our communities with a transparent, open approach.
Our Values: Safe, Personal, Respectful, Responsibility
The Trust has developed four core Values which form a framework for how we deliver services and relate to one another. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
The post holder will have opportunities to develop areas of special expertise in line with service priorities. The potential post-holder should also have relevant experience in quality improvement and service development, clinical management and leadership skills.
The post-holder will be fully accredited in General Paediatrics.
Excellent communication & liaison skills and the ability to work within a multidisciplinary team are essential. As a University hospital, there is a strong commitment to teaching medical students and junior doctors. The post holder is expected to play an active role in all undergraduate and postgraduate training activities.
We have excellent established relationships with medical and nursing colleagues within and outside the trust and with Social Care in Hackney.
The role includes on-call duties in Acute Paediatrics.
The Trust is committed to Equal Opportunities.
Interview date: TBC
Contact Name & Details:
Sanjay Wazir - 02085107877
Lucia Re Ferre -02085107877
About us
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is located in the east London Borough of Hackney. We are a merged hospital and community service trust. The current Chairman is Sir John Gieve and the Chief Executive is Ms Louise Ashley.
The hospital building opened in 1986, with Homerton Hospital Trust established in 1994. The hospital received university status in 2001. We provide training for medical students from Barts and The London, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London, and nursing and allied health professions training for students from City University and the University of East London.
Homerton became one of the first ten NHS foundation trusts in the country in April 2004. This status allows the Trust to secure certain freedoms to facilitate innovation in the way services are developed and provided. As well as our Trust Board, we also have a Council of Governors comprised of 26 governors representing the local community. Governors are elected from and by the foundation members.
Employing over 3000 people, the hospital has approximately 500 beds at present, including a 50 bed nursing home, Mary Seacole Nursing Home, in Shoreditch east London. In 2006/7, the Trust admitted 39,000 people, saw 200,000 people in outpatient clinics and 110,000 people were treated in the accident and emergency department
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information and main responsibilities of the role, please find attached the Job Description and Person Specification.
Please note this post is subject to RCPCH approval
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information and main responsibilities of the role, please find attached the Job Description and Person Specification.
Please note this post is subject to RCPCH approval
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- MBBS or equivalent
- MRCPCH or equivalent
- Full GMC registration with CCT Paediatrics (or eligible for CCT within 6/12 months of interview date)
Desirable
- Higher degree e.g. MSc, MD
- Management Course
- Research/Publications
- Experience in working in community paediatrics
Knowledge and expertise
Essential
- Clinical experience and training in general paediatrics with minimum of 5 years at ST4+ or equivalent grade
- Training and experience in Child Protection acute and or community
- Training/Experience in Paediatric A&E
- Training/Experience in Ambulatory Paediatrics
- APLS Provider Certificate
- Undergraduate and Postgraduate Teaching/training skills
- Definitive Training &/or experience in Child Protection
- Up to date with Level 3 Child Protection
Desirable
- Training in transport of sick children/critical care
- EPALS or APLS instructor status
- Experience of Educational Supervision, Teaching Skills Course.
- Training and experience in paediatric critical care
- Training and experience in community paediatrics
- Training and experience in community paediatrics
Academic
Essential
- Participation in quality improvement or clinical audit
- Undergraduate and Postgraduate teaching/training skills
Desirable
- Insight into research methods and evaluation
- Publications
- Experience of Educational Supervision, Teaching Skills Course such as Training the Trainers
Management
Essential
- Clinical Governance experience including audit clinical risk management
- Experience in managerial duties & basic management skills. To take responsibility for own practice
Desirable
- Demonstrated ability to manage a service, team or project
- Formal management training
- Service development experience/knowledge
Personal skills
Essential
- Excellent clinical skills
- Excellent communication skills (written & oral) and ability to develop good working relationships
- Ability to work on own initiative unsupervised and make decisions.
- Demonstrated ability to manage time effectively.
- Team-player with experience of multidisciplinary working & liaison across organisation boundaries and external agencies.
- Able to travel across Hackney in order to meet the requirements of the post
- Commitment to continuing personal development
- Good organisational skills
- Leadership skills
- Computer/IT Skills
Desirable
- Experience of multicultural & ethnic communities
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- MBBS or equivalent
- MRCPCH or equivalent
- Full GMC registration with CCT Paediatrics (or eligible for CCT within 6/12 months of interview date)
Desirable
- Higher degree e.g. MSc, MD
- Management Course
- Research/Publications
- Experience in working in community paediatrics
Knowledge and expertise
Essential
- Clinical experience and training in general paediatrics with minimum of 5 years at ST4+ or equivalent grade
- Training and experience in Child Protection acute and or community
- Training/Experience in Paediatric A&E
- Training/Experience in Ambulatory Paediatrics
- APLS Provider Certificate
- Undergraduate and Postgraduate Teaching/training skills
- Definitive Training &/or experience in Child Protection
- Up to date with Level 3 Child Protection
Desirable
- Training in transport of sick children/critical care
- EPALS or APLS instructor status
- Experience of Educational Supervision, Teaching Skills Course.
- Training and experience in paediatric critical care
- Training and experience in community paediatrics
- Training and experience in community paediatrics
Academic
Essential
- Participation in quality improvement or clinical audit
- Undergraduate and Postgraduate teaching/training skills
Desirable
- Insight into research methods and evaluation
- Publications
- Experience of Educational Supervision, Teaching Skills Course such as Training the Trainers
Management
Essential
- Clinical Governance experience including audit clinical risk management
- Experience in managerial duties & basic management skills. To take responsibility for own practice
Desirable
- Demonstrated ability to manage a service, team or project
- Formal management training
- Service development experience/knowledge
Personal skills
Essential
- Excellent clinical skills
- Excellent communication skills (written & oral) and ability to develop good working relationships
- Ability to work on own initiative unsupervised and make decisions.
- Demonstrated ability to manage time effectively.
- Team-player with experience of multidisciplinary working & liaison across organisation boundaries and external agencies.
- Able to travel across Hackney in order to meet the requirements of the post
- Commitment to continuing personal development
- Good organisational skills
- Leadership skills
- Computer/IT Skills
Desirable
- Experience of multicultural & ethnic communities
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.
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).
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.
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).
