Job summary
Are you a talented Consultant Community Paediatrician passionate about making a difference in the lives of children and families? Do you excel in a collaborative and supportive environment? If so, join our dynamic teams in Bath and North-east Somerset (BaNES) or Wiltshire!
Our Childrens Community Services team are committed to providing effective care to children, young people, and families. You will play a crucial role in providing specialist assessment, diagnosis, and clinical management for children, including those with neurodevelopment difficulties such as Autism, ADHD, physical/learning disabilities, Cerebral Palsy and delayed development. You will take part in the child protection on-call rota.
The Child Health Department at is a friendly team of consultants and associate specialists and GPwERs supported by our fantastic administration team. We are co-located with multi-disciplinary teams such as the Safeguarding and Looked After Childrens Nursing Teams, Community Childrens Nursing Team, School Nursing Team and Speech and Language Therapists.
We take pride in our role as a training department, educating and mentoring the next generation of Paediatric professionals. In BaNES you will contribute to teaching and supervising paediatric trainees from Severn Deanery at ST4-8 helping their development and growth in their professional careers.
At HCRG Care Group we understand the importance of maintaining a healthy work-life balance.
Main duties of the job
As a Consultant Community Paediatrician your days will be varied and fulfilling and may include:
- Delivering paediatric clinics face to face and telephone clinics.
- Assessing children with a range of concerns that are affecting their development or educational potential.
- Completing reports and administration within timescales
- Contributing to multidisciplinary assessment and management for initial assessments and follow-ups.
- Performing medical assessments of children referred by police or social care with safeguarding concerns.
- Seeing Looked After Children, to collate information and complete forms within statutory time limits.
- Contributing to child protection on call rota
- Liaising with health professionals to ensure coordination of assessments.
- Supervising, teaching and training other staff in childrens services.
- Covering colleagues annual leave and short-term sickness.
- Covering duty doctor tasks.
- Contributing to audit and clinical governance programmes.
- Actively assisting in formulating, implementing, and monitoring organisations objectives, service plans and developments with both internal and external agencies.
For more information, please see the attached Job description.
About us
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services.Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2
Job description
Job responsibilities
Essential
Applicants should possess or be within 6 months of receiving a CCT in Paediatrics.
- UK recognised medical degree
- Full GMC Registration
- GMC Specialist Registration
- Membership of RCPCH
- Level 3 training and experience in Safeguarding Children
- Excellent team-working, leadership, organisational and time management skills.
- Excellent paediatric clinical experience and skills
- Leadership, teamworking and organisation skills
Desirable
- CCT in Community Child Health
- Formal training in Standardised Autism Assessments
- Training in a standardised formal developmental assessments
- Experience in the assessment, diagnosis and management of ADHD
- Experience of Child Protection assessments, Initial Health Assessments for Looked After Children, advising the LA regarding Special Educational Needs
- An area of special interest eg neurodevelopmental paediatrics, safeguarding
- Experience leading projects, audit and Quality Improvement
- Experience in teaching and training
- Published research in Community Paediatrics
For a full list of requirements, please see the attached job description.
We welcome applications from candidates looking for part-time positions!
You will feel valued as a Consultant Community Paediatrician within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £93,666 - £119,323 (Medical and Dental: Consultant Payscale)
- Medical and Dental Terms and Conditions and NHS Pension!
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
Job description
Job responsibilities
Essential
Applicants should possess or be within 6 months of receiving a CCT in Paediatrics.
- UK recognised medical degree
- Full GMC Registration
- GMC Specialist Registration
- Membership of RCPCH
- Level 3 training and experience in Safeguarding Children
- Excellent team-working, leadership, organisational and time management skills.
- Excellent paediatric clinical experience and skills
- Leadership, teamworking and organisation skills
Desirable
- CCT in Community Child Health
- Formal training in Standardised Autism Assessments
- Training in a standardised formal developmental assessments
- Experience in the assessment, diagnosis and management of ADHD
- Experience of Child Protection assessments, Initial Health Assessments for Looked After Children, advising the LA regarding Special Educational Needs
- An area of special interest eg neurodevelopmental paediatrics, safeguarding
- Experience leading projects, audit and Quality Improvement
- Experience in teaching and training
- Published research in Community Paediatrics
For a full list of requirements, please see the attached job description.
We welcome applications from candidates looking for part-time positions!
You will feel valued as a Consultant Community Paediatrician within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £93,666 - £119,323 (Medical and Dental: Consultant Payscale)
- Medical and Dental Terms and Conditions and NHS Pension!
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
Person Specification
General Requirements
Essential
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Desirable
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Person Specification
General Requirements
Essential
- Click Apply for this job above to view the Job Description on our career site
Desirable
- Click Apply for this job above to view the Job Description on our career site
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.
