Consultant - Community Paediatrician (Wiltshire)

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.

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.

Proposed plan of programmed activities (PAs):

• 3.25 clinics per week 6.5 (including admin)
• Child protection on call 1.0 (plus 6-7 week-ends per year)
• Supporting professional activities 1.5 - 2.5
• Specialist role (if desired) 1.0

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