Community Consultant Paediatrician

NHS; Aberystwyth; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Aberystwyth is seeking a skilled Community Paediatrics Consultant. The role involves delivering high-quality clinical services, providing leadership to staff, and engaging in teaching and research. The ideal candidate must be GMC registered, possess significant experience in community paediatrics, and demonstrate leadership abilities within a multidisciplinary team. This position offers an opportunity to work across various healthcare settings in the community.

Qualifications

• Full GMC Registration and Licence to Practice.
• Knowledge of UK hospital systems.
• Competence in Community Paediatrics.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the provision and delivery of a first-class clinical service.
• Provide effective leadership to all staff engaged in the specialty.
• Conduct clinical practice in accordance with contractual requirements.

Job description

The principal place of work for this post is Bronglais General Hospital, Aberystwyth. The post holder will generally be expected to undertake their programmed activities at the principal place of work or other locations agreed in the Job Plan. Exceptions will include travelling between work sites and attending official meetings away from the workplace. A planned and cost-effective approach is expected and is included in the DCC sessional allocation. The post holder may be required to work at any site within the Health Board, including new sites.

To provide, with consultant colleagues (as appropriate) a service in Community Paediatrics and support the development of sub-speciality interest to the hospitals and community so designated with responsibility for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of illness.

All clinical staff are accountable and responsible for their own clinical competence and should limit their actions to those for which they are deemed competent. Clinical staff are also required to comply with the requirements of their professional organisation regarding supervision.

As a senior employee of the Health Board the post holder will work in close co-operation with, and support other clinical, medical professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality healthcare to the Health Board's patients.

Main duties of the job

To ensure the provision and delivery of a first-class clinical service

To provide effective leadership to all staff engaged in the specialty

To sustain and develop teaching and research wherever appropriate

To undertake all work in accordance with the Health Board's procedures and operating policies

To conduct clinical practice in accordance with contractual requirements and within the parameters of the Health Board's service plans

To maintain the confidence of business plans and development strategies formulated for the specialty or the Health Board

Core clinical expertise in Community Paediatrics

Experience and knowledge of running a subspecialty service

Leadership and team building skills as well as working as part of a multidisciplinary team

Supporting and training multidisciplinary teams

Delivering care in the community alongside primary health care and social care teams

Providing persuasive strategic advice to HB's and Social Services Departments

Addressing the Intermediate Care Agenda

Participating in CPD including Audit

You are expected to maintain your professional development for Revalidation

A Teaching and Training Role for medical undergraduates and postgraduates

Educational Supervisor role to Junior and Middle Grade Medical Staff

To undertake regular multidisciplinary clinical audit and provide evidence-based medicine

About us

Hywel Dda University Health Board plans and provides NHS healthcare services for people living in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire, and bordering counties.

We have over 13,000 staff and together we provide primary, community, in-hospital, mental health and learning disabilities services.

We work in partnership the three local authorities, as well as public, private and third sector colleagues, including our valued team of volunteers.

Our services are provided in:

• Four main hospitals: Bronglais Hospital in Aberystwyth; Glangwili Hospital in Carmarthen; Prince Philip Hospital in Llanelli; and Withybush Hospital in Haverfordwest
• Five community hospitals: Amman Valley and Llandovery hospitals in Carmarthenshire; Tregaron Hospital in Ceredigion; and Tenby and South Pembrokeshire hospitals in Pembrokeshire
• Two integrated care centres: Aberaeron and Cardigan in Ceredigion, and several other community settings
• 47 general practices (six of which are health board managed practices); dental practices (including four orthodontic); 97 community pharmacies; 43 general ophthalmic practices; and 8 ophthalmic domiciliary providers
• Numerous mental health and learning disabilities services

Job responsibilities

For full details of the role requirements please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for this vacancy.

Discussions around working pattern will take place during initial job planning, where preferences, requirements and options can be discussed and explored in full.

Consultant Development and Mentoring Programme

We run a successful Consultant Development and Mentoring Programme within the Health Board, this programme is specifically designed to meet the needs of newly appointed consultants, and offers a current and future focus by:

• developing you as a senior leader, to enable you to effectively contribute to Hywel Dda and its future direction.
• Enhancing your capability as a senior leader and to support you to deliver organisational priorities
• build capacity for the future, by aligning current priorities with planning for delivering future service.
• delivering development aimed at consultants, enabling you to translate the NHS Medical Leadership Competency Framework (MCLF) behaviours into practice

The programme has been designed to support new Consultants to achieve the competencies required from the Medical Leadership Competency Framework (MCLF). This framework has been included within the NHS Leadership Framework (LF), and as such is consistent in its language and approach.

Please find below links to some useful information:

• https://youtu.be/RUMDpjtu1sY
• https://youtu.be/Xb5ksZWmXm8
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgt03XPT6RQ
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLioZyqIpwk&t=33s

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Full GMC Registration and Licence to Practice
• On Specialist Register with GMC or CCT due within 6 months of interview date
• Or CESR or equivalent European Qualifications for Specialist Registration
• Valid Certified Advanced Life Support Skills
• Or CCT or CESR-CP in General Paediatrics without Community Child Health (CCH) is acceptable if the applicant can show how they have acquired the Level 3 CCH competencies
• Valid BLS Training
• MRCPCH or equivalent
• MBBS or equivalent
• Appropriate Higher Degree e.g., MD, PhD, or MSc or equivalent
• Community Paediatrics CESR

Clinical Experience

• Knowledge of UK hospital systems (or equivalent)
• Knowledge and participation in CPD
• Competence in Community Paediatrics
• Extensive and broad based community paediatric experience to able to work at consultant community paediatrics'
• Experience of NHS
• Wider experience, research, and training in providing subspecialty service
• Evidence of above average performance

Clinical Governance

• Evidence of participation in clinical audit and understanding role of audit in improving medical practice
• Knowledge of risk management
• Knowledge of annual job planning/appraisal review process

Research

• Experience and knowledge of critical appraisal of evidence so as to improve clinical outcomes
• Evidence of initiating, progressing, and concluding research projects with publication

Teaching

• Evidence of organising programmes and teaching medical students and junior doctors
• Organisation of further teaching programmes in medical education
• "Training the Trainers" experience

Management

• Knowledge of the management and structure of the NHS
• Evidence of management training

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.