Locum Consultant Community Paediatrician
We are looking to recruit a Locum Consultant to our Community Paediatric team in Newham for 2026
This is an excellent opportunity to join a dynamic team within a multidisciplinary Community Child Health service in East London.
Consultant Community Paediatrician (up to 10PA)- the post will have a focus in Social pediatrics, working closely with the named Dr for Children in Care and the named Dr for Child Protection. This post would suit a newly qualified consultant who is looking to gain experience in Social pediatric work at senior level.
Main Duties of the Job
- Clinical activities
- Consultant clinics and related administrative work
- Clinical triage of referrals
- Clinical supervision as “Consultant of the Day” including Child protection
- MDT clinical discussions or meetings
- Any clinical patient-related meetings
- Working with the named doctors to support development of the Children in care and child protection service.
- Teaching
- To contribute to departmental teaching
- To contribute to teaching of medical students particularly in relation to community child health services
- Management and leadership
- Clinical supervision
- Clinical governance
- Management supervision
- Pathway leadership
- Audit, Quality Improvement and Service Development
About us
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people’s lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job responsibilities
Further details about the posts are detailed in the Job Descriptions and person specification attached.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- MBBS
- MRCPCH or equivalent
- GMC registration
- BSC in medical subject
- MSc in medical subject
- pHD
Professional Training
- CCT In general paediatrics or within 6 months of CCT
- In process of applying for Specialist registration via portfolio pathway.
- CCT in community Child health
Clinical knowledge and experience
- Experience of carrying out and supervising Child protection medical assessments
- Experience of carrying out and supervising Children in Care medical assessments
- 4+ years general professional training in Pediatrics
- up to date with Level 3 competancies in child protection
- at least 1 years experience of UK community Paediatrics
- Competent in Austism assessment – ADOS or 3Di trarining
- Trained in use of Griffiths or Bayley for developmental assesment
- exeprince in assessing and managing complex children with neurological and developmenatl problem s
Medical management and leadership
- experience of supervision of resident/ SAS drs
- experience of productive MDT working
- completed management course
- experience of complaint handling
Quality Improvement
- Completed QI project with proven benefit
- Quality improvement Training
- Experience of co-production with service users
Teaching
- experience of undergraduate paediatric teaching
- experience of postgraduate paediatric teaching
- Ability to emphaise with people from different backgrounds
- Abilty to be able to communicate effectively with parents and children
- evince that they have championed diversity in the workplace.
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.
Consultant Paediatrician Named Dr for Safeguarding
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