Specialty Grade Doctor in Community Paediatrics

Job summary

Due to the retirement of one of our paediatricians, applications are invited for the post of Specialty Doctor to join our busy, yet supportive Community Paediatric Team, East Area. The post holder will assist in providing comprehensive and specialist child health services across this area of North Wales. The successful candidate will join a team of 5 other Community Paediatricians and 8 Acute General Paediatricians to provide child health services across the Flintshire and Wrexham areas of North Wales.

The contract is a standard full-time 10 PA contract with 8 clinical and 2 SPA sessions. A particular interest in Neurodevelopmental services would be desirable but there is flexibility to develop specific areas of interest. Study leave, and attendance at the regular departmental meetings is built in to the timetable. The job plan will be reviewed annually through the job planning process.

Main duties of the job

The services within the Children' and Young People's Division are managed under 3 service areas, the service being hosted by the central area team of BCUHB:

East Children's Service

Central Children's Service

West Children's Service

There are strategic and operational multidisciplinary and interagency groups locally to facilitate partnership working and joint planning.

Children's Services in the East Area include:

Community Paediatric Teams based in Wrexham and Flintshire Children's Centres

Acute inpatient and day case provision at Wrexham Maelor Hospital

Health Visiting services within Wrexham and Flintshire

School Nursing services within Wrexham and Flintshire

Child safeguarding services

Forensic Sexual abuse service with a resource and examination facility in Colwyn Bay

Children in need and looked after children (medical and nursing) services.

Specialist Community Nurses.

Outpatient service from a dedicated children's outpatient department at Wrexham Maelor Hospital and from Mold and Deeside community hospital clinics.

Tier 3 CAMHS outpatient services in Wrexham and Flintshire Children's Centres

Tier 4 CAMHS inpatients services at the North Wales Adolescent Unit at Abergele Hospital

Sub regional neonatal intensive care unit at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd.

Medical Genetics service which is part of the All Wales Genetic Service

About us

Everybody's role within the C&YP service is to work towards helping the children and young people in that family.

Families can exist in many forms, sizes and some children and young people may only have themselves. We see our goal as to support that child and/or young person and whatever their family is or will be to enable them to achieve their maximum potential. We know that fate has placed them in this situation and we are there to support them through their journey to resolve/adapt or come to terms with the health challenges they face. Every one of our team member plays an important part in our service and together we work to establish our own "family of a team", as we recognise that the privilege of supporting Children and young people through their journey is improved if we support and work together as a team that respects and supports each other.

Children are at the heart of what we do every day; and team working plays a huge part of this.