Locum Consultant in Community Paediatrics
Applications are invited for the post of Consultant Community Paediatrician at the Whittington Health NHS Trust.This is to fill a recently vacated post.
The post holderbe expected to participate in the clinical, educational and continuing professional development activities of the department, ideally taking over the Named Doctor role for Safeguarding, but this is not mandatory. This is a fixed term contract for 6 months in first instance, with subsequent application for a substantive post. Where possible we will try to adapt the clinical aspect of this post to the successful applicant’s area of interest if aligned to the needs of the local population.
The safeguarding role will be supported by the Designated Doctor of Child Protection
The main location is at the Northern Health Centre in Upper Holloway in Islington, London. This is where the community paediatricians, the therapists, audiology, dietetics and the CAMHS service is co-located.
Main duties of the job
Please see the full Job Description and the Person Specification for further details about the job role.
About us
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trustbelieves that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Job responsibilities
Duties of the post
Summary outline:
2. Neurodevelopmental clinics 3 community clinics per months: one multi-disciplinary clinic for children with conditions significantly affecting their posture and movement (PD clinic) who are not (yet) in special needs schools and two clinics a month
3. ASD diagnostic clinic (1PA) to be part of the Social Communication Team and participate in the MDT diagnostic process.
4. CP second on call (2 hours per call) the CP on call is fortnightly on Wednesdays
5. SPA (1.5 PA) CPD, this includes departmental meetings, mandatory training and own appraisal
6. Named doctor for safeguarding if this role is taken up, it is 2PA. There will then be less community clinic commitment per week
Please see the attached job description for further details and a timetable.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- MB BS or equivalent MRCP/MRCPCH or equivalent
- CCT (or equivalent), or within 6 months of CT date, or entry on the Specialist Register of GMC for Paediatrics
- Evidence that the candidate is within 6 months of CCT date and is expected to achieve a CCT
- BSc in medical subject PhD, Md, MSc, DCH
- CCT in Paediatric Neurodisability
Clinical Experience and Skills
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary Child Development team and ability to carry out comprehensive developmental assessments
- Competence in management of common problems in children with ADHD, Autism, epilepsy and physical neurodisability
- Minimum Level 3 Children Protection competence, ability to assess children when there are safeguarding concerns and experience of providing safeguarding supervision
- Competence in management of common general paediatric problems – acute and chronic
- Substantial clinical experience as a clinician in paediatric neurodisability, managing epilepsy, and would be able to manage children with complex health needs.
Teaching
- Experience of Undergraduate and Postgraduate teaching
- Additional teaching qualifications
- Ability to work as a member of a multidisciplinary team, seeking advice from, sharing experience with, and offering support to other team members
- Experience of working in an interagency team
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to interpret and communicate on a broad range of health information in a social and education context
- Strong leadership qualities including ability to build effective relationships, influence, and negotiate with others, political astuteness and sensitivity, ability to manage conflict of interest
- Able to analyse holistic health chronologies and provide a written comprehensive report detailing the implications of the information for the care-experienced child’s current and future health and wellbeing
Management ability
- Ability to undertake administrative tasks (e.g. writing complex reports for court, annual reports) effectively
- Excellent organisational skills and time management
- Ability to prioritise tasks
- Ability to supervise junior staff
- Completed recognised leadership course
Clinical Governance
- Record of completed audit and service improvement project
- Experience in: NHS complaint handling, Clinical incident reporting
- Training in and experience of appraisal
- An understanding of clinical governance and its application to the role of Named Doctor
Personal Skills
- Shows decision making and judgement
- Shows adaptability and flexibility as needed
- Ability to build effective relationships, influence, and negotiate with others
- Training in communication skills, counselling, educational supervision
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.
£113,565 to £150,569 a yearper annum (pro rata for part time)
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