Consultant Community Paediatrician
Closing date: 11 May 2026
Location: Worcestershire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust
This is a substantive role with 10 PAs per week, with flexibility for part‑time arrangements. The position offers an all‑day, Monday to Friday schedule with no on‑call commitment.
Responsibilities
- Provide direct paediatric care to assigned patients, ensuring a collaborative approach to treatment planning.
- Manage children and young people with developmental delay, neurodevelopmental concerns, neurodisability and epilepsy (for those attending special school).
- Run hearing loss aetiology clinics.
- Provide medical advice for the EHCP process for children under care, initial health assessments for children in care, medical input to adoption services and participation in child death review.
- Support safeguarding processes (no child protection medical examinations).
- Deliver paediatric leadership to the multidisciplinary team and liaise with other agencies as required.
- Engage in teaching, clinical audit, quality assurance programmes and clinical governance.
Qualifications
- MBBS or equivalent medical qualification.
- MRCP, MRCPCH by examination or equivalent.
- Full GMC registration and licence to practice.
- On the GMC specialist register or within 6 months of CCT in Community Child Health, or evidence of appropriate level‑3 competencies.
- Eligible to work in the UK.
- Will provide original certificates at point of offer.
Experience
- Competencies relating to General Paediatric Training achieved after 2 years of General Professional Training in Paediatrics.
- Competencies equivalent to Higher Specialist Paediatric Training achieved after 5 years, including 3 years in Community Child Health.
- Previous experience in a clinical leadership role with positive relationships with team members.
- Safeguarding to at least level 3 competencies.
Benefits
- 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing to 33 days with long service.
- Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when working unsocial hours.
- Flexible and agile working opportunities.
- Great maternity, paternity and adoption support.
- Wide range of supportive staff networks.
- Health and wellbeing opportunities.
Equality and Diversity
We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, and ethnicities.
Disclosures
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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