Consultant Community Paediatrician

Job responsibilities

The post holder will be expected to:

Work with a dedicated team of community and developmental paediatric consultants to deliver holistic and multi-disciplinary care to children with developmental disorders and complex health needs in the locality. They will work alongside specialist community nurses, paediatric therapists and child psychologists.

Liaise with colleagues in Primary Care, Education (including the provision of health advice for the Special Education Needs and Disability assessment process) and Social Services in the delivery of care.

Support statutory services undertaken by the department which will include Children in Care Initial Health assessments and may include safeguarding assessments of physical injuries and neglect.

Contribute to service development, departmental clinical governance and annual appraisals towards revalidation with the GMC.

Participate in postgraduate training within the clinical environment and support paediatric trainees.

Special Requirements

Essential

• An exceptional practitioner who is able to demonstrate ambition for themselves, the team and the service
• Membership of appropriate professional groups
• Active involvement in Continuing Professional Development
• Ability to be flexible, adaptable, thorough and resilient
• An understanding of equality and diversity within the workforce and how can it impact on this post
• Ability to share knowledge and difficulties with colleagues
• Able to travel to meet the requirements of the post

Special Skills & Knowledge

Essential

• Experience of disability and neurodevelopmental paediatrics
• Effective communicator and team worker
• Ability to conduct a comprehensive assessment of children with understanding of relevant psychosocial factors and liaise effectively with other professionals to ensure treatment and support
• Able to demonstrate an understanding of the absolute need for child advocacy in any forum
• Leadership: ability to develop a vision and lead the change that brings it into effect within a multi-disciplinary and multi- agency context
• Effective time management, able to work under pressure
• Flexible, adaptable, thorough and resilient
• Well-developed reflective and self-care skills and able to foster these attributes in others
• Ability to share knowledge and difficulties with colleagues
• Highly developed IT skills

Desirable

• Experience in undertaking initial health assessments for children in care.
• Understand multiagency working in the context of the management of children in care.

Qualifications

Essential

• CCT/CCST or equivalent accreditation and community paediatrics or equivalent training and experience
• MRCP, MRCPCH or equivalent
• Full registration and license to practice with General Medical Council or eligible if currently working overseas
• On specialist register or within 6 months of CCT at time of scheduled interview
• Approved training in child protection/safeguarding at Level 3 in line with the intercollegiate guidelines

Desirable

• Sheffield neurodisability diploma or equivalent experience
• PET level 1, 2 & 3
• Level 3 competencies in the intercollegiate guidelines - knowledge, skills and competencies for children in care

Experience

Essential

• Experience in General Paediatrics, Paediatric Neurodevelopment
• Three years higher specialist training,
• including community paediatric experience or is able to demonstrate having achieved competencies equivalent to the highest specialist paediatric training
• Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of complex patients
• Teaching experience in a wide variety of settings
• Audit/QIP: evidence of understanding of audit principles and having taken a lead role
• Leading a multi-disciplinary team

Desirable

• Evidence of previous experience in undertaking neurodisability/neurodevelopment clinics (patients with cerebral palsy, complex multisystem neuro genetic or neurometabolic patients)
• Specialist experience/training in particular area of CCH practice
• Attendance at a recognised teaching course e.g. Teaching the Teachers
• Publications in peer reviewed journals, presentations at national or international level
• Enthusiasm for undertaking clinical research in a relevant area
• Training in research methodology and practical experience of clinical research

Statutory Registration

Essential

• Full registration and license to practice with General Medical Council or eligible if currently working overseas

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).