Consultant in Community Paediatrics

Consultant in Community Paediatrics

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

Closing date: 07 July 2026

Responsibilities

• Provide consultant‑led assessment, diagnosis, and management of children and young people with developmental, neuro‑disability, behavioural, and complex health needs in community settings.
• Lead and contribute to neurodevelopmental pathways, including assessment of autism spectrum disorder.
• Undertake safeguarding medical assessments for looked‑after children and children with complex social and health needs.
• Work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams and with partner agencies including education, social care, and allied health professionals.
• Provide clinical leadership, supervision and teaching to junior medical staff, SAS doctors, trainees and the wider multidisciplinary team.
• Contribute to service development, quality improvements, clinical governance and audit activities.
• Support strategic planning and delivery of commissioned community child health services and meet local population needs.
• Contribute to training, safeguarding reviews and statutory multi‑agency meetings.
• Support early intervention, reduce health inequalities, improve long‑term outcomes and ensure delivery of commissioned and statutory community child health services.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• MB or equivalent
• MRPCH or equivalent
• Full registration with GMC
• MSc in Paediatric Neuro‑disability
• On the GMC specialist register for Community Child Health (CCH), or within 6 months of CCT for CCH, or specialist register for Paediatrics with demonstration of Level 3 CCH competencies obtained through CESR

Experience

• Experience of Paediatrics
• Experience of Community Paediatrics
• Special interest in Community Child Health

Skills

• Experience and clinical skills in child development and childhood disability
• Ability to assess children and young people for ASD
• Competent in health assessment of a child looked after and child being adopted
• Ability to assess health of children with special educational needs
• Ability to work well as team member
• Flexible approach to service delivery and commitment to service development
• Ability to communicate well with patients/families and colleagues
• Ability to lead and complete audit projects then implement change
• Effective teaching skills
• Assessment for Children with Behavioural Problems including ADHD

Personal Circumstances

• Commitment to personal professional development
• Ability to travel across the county.
• Recent publication/s

Mandatory Checks

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires a Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Benefits

• 27‑day holiday scheme rising to 33 days after 10 years
• NHS discounts (subject to eligibility)
• Salary sacrifice schemes including lease cars and cycle‑to‑work (subject to eligibility)
• Vivup – a free, confidential counselling and information service to assist with personal or work‑related problems

Other Information

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts.

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