Consultant Paediatrician

Job description

Job responsibilities

Consultant Paediatrician for Children and Young People's Neurodevelopmental Assessment Service

About Paloma Health

Paloma Health is a new technology-enabled provider for NHS mental and physical health services. We are driven by our mission to make high-quality NHS outpatient services accessible within 4 weeks, and to make those services more affordable for the NHS.

We are unique through:

• Being clinically-led, with a friendly and approachable team

• Our use of technology and innovation to improve patient and staff experience

• A strong culture, including transparency, a sense of community, and supporting staff career development

• The experience of our founders, who have previously built technology-enabled providers in NHS obesity, diabetes, and ophthalmology care treating over 1 million patients in the last 15 years

• Being backed by leading healthcare investors.

You will be part of our much needed NHS service, Neurodevelopmental Assessments for children and young people (CYP). We need your help to innovate and tackle the crisis in NHS Neurodevelopmental Services as set out in the October 2024 Childrens Commissioner report, with hundreds of thousands of children waiting 2+ years for an autism and/or ADHD assessment.

Read more on the crisis here: https://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/blog/childrens-commissioner-warns-of-invisible-crisis-as-delays-and-inequalities-laid-bare-among-children-with-neurodevelopmental-conditions/

The Opportunity

We are seeking a passionate and innovative Consultant Paediatrician to be a core part of our MDT team working alongside our Consultant Child Psychiatrist, Clinical Psychologist and Speech and Language Therapist.

Your role is to ensure high-quality, efficient, and compassionate care for patients and their families. You will lead the delivery of our Autism Assessment pathway for children 0-3, and provide expert paediatrician guidance to our wider Autism and ADHD clinical assessment teams.

Responsibilities

• Be the clinical expert for our Autism Assessment pathway for children 0-3, partnering with our Product Team to ensure a fantastic family experience

• Deliver autism assessments to children aged 0-3

• Recruit, train, and develop our paediatricians skilled in completing autism assessments in children 0-3

• Work with our MDT team to continuously improve our existing autism and ADHD assessment pathways.

• Contribute to complex patient MDT discussions to support diagnostic decision making for autism and ADHD in children in line with DSM-V criteria

• Stay abreast of the latest research and evidence-based practices in autism diagnosis, treatment, and management.

Qualifications and experience

Required:

• Membership of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health with GMC registration.

• Experience as a Consultant in a neurodevelopmental assessment or equivalent services (e.g. community paediatrics or Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services)

• Significant experience in conducting assessments for autism in children, making diagnostic decisions, and supporting differential diagnosis, and evidence-based management approaches.

• Strong leadership and team management skills, with the ability to motivate and guide less experienced staff.

• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and collaboration skills, fostering strong relationships with patients, families, and colleagues.

Desirable:

• Passion for innovation and utilising technology to enhance care delivery.

Dont meet every requirement? Studies have shown that women and people from ethnic minority groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Paloma we are dedicated to building a diverse and top performing workplace, so if youre excited about this role but your past experience doesnt align with every qualification, we strongly encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles!

Time commitment: Part time and full time roles are available.

Location: At our Devon clinic in Exeter, with occasional travel to other clinics in Devon.

Reporting to: Autism Team Manager

Benefits:

• Our strong and positive culture through our values and cultural recipe. This includes monthly staff wellbeing check ins, with clear company responses to feedback

• Protected time and budgets to come together as a team, share learnings, support each other, and build a community.

• Competitive salary which is a meaningful increase on NHS consultant salaries.

• Annual salary reviews, 5% employer pension, and company laptop.

• Share options in Paloma Health, we all benefit from our success!

• A unique benefits package including 29.33 days annual leave plus bank holidays. The 29.33 days include 26 fixed days per year, plus 10 days of paid leave as a sabbatical for every 3 years of service.

Equality & Diversity:

Paloma Health is an equal-opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion both within the workplace and throughout our application process. We do not discriminate based on any protected characteristic.

Application process:

Please submit your CV and we will get in touch for a first round interview.

The closing date for applications is the 19th January 2025.

We understand that applying for a new job takes time which we really appreciate. We are looking forward to reading your application.

Join us and be part of our journey to revolutionise access to Neurodevelopmental Assessments for patients in England!

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Qualifications and experience
• Required:
• Membership of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health with GMC registration.

Desirable

• Desirable:
• Passion for innovation and utilising technology to enhance care delivery.

Experience

Essential

• Experience as a Consultant in a neurodevelopmental assessment or equivalent services (e.g. community paediatrics or Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services)
• Significant experience in conducting assessments for autism in children, making diagnostic decisions, and supporting differential diagnosis, and evidence-based management approaches.
• Strong leadership and team management skills, with the ability to motivate and guide less experienced staff.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and collaboration skills, fostering strong relationships with patients, families, and colleagues.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Paloma Health

Address

Living Options Devon

Lustleigh Close

Marsh Barton Trading Estate

Exeter

EX2 8PW

Employer's website

https://www.paloma.health/ (Opens in a new tab)