COMMUNITY CONSULTANT PAEDIATRICIAN & LEAD FOR LOOKED AFTER CHILDREN

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust; Newport; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A community healthcare provider in Newport is seeking a Community Consultant Paediatrician to join their team. This role includes providing care to children, supporting multidisciplinary collaboration, and participating in child protection duties. Candidates should have GMC registration and extensive experience in community child health. The organization offers flexible working arrangements and comprehensive employee support programs.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Employee Assistance Programme

Health & Wellness initiatives

Qualifications

• Full GMC registration with a licence to practice.
• CCT or equivalent.
• Inclusion in, or eligibility for inclusion in the Specialist Register or within 6 months of obtaining CCST.
• At least 2 years’ experience in Community Child Health.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of multidisciplinary teams providing care to babies, children and young people.
• Provide senior medical support and guidance to the team.
• Participate in the local Child Protection rota.
• Commit to collaborative working with health and social professionals.

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COMMUNITY CONSULTANT PAEDIATRICIAN & LEAD FOR LOOKED AFTER CHILDREN, Newport

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Client:

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust

Location:

Newport, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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Posted:

12.08.2025

Expiry Date:

26.09.2025

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Job Description:

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Job overview

COMMUNITY CONSULTANT PAEDIATRICIAN

& LEAD FOR LOOKED AFTER CHILDREN

(CHADWELL HEATH, RM6 4XH)

Please note: We reserve the right to close this advert, at any time, in the event of receiving suitable applicants.

Contract

Substantive

Hours

None

Location

The Grove, Grove Road, Chadwell Heath, RM6 4XH

Qualifications needed:

·Full GMC registration with a licence to practice

·CCT or equivalent

·Inclusion in, or eligibility for inclusion in the Specialist Register or within 6 months of obtaining CCST

·At least 2 years’ experience in Community Child Health.

Main duties of the job

To be successful in your application, you will need:

·To demonstrate that your values are in line with that of NELFT’s values,

·To be innovative, motivated, and passionate about baby, children, and young people health care,

·Essential understanding of current developments in community paediatric care,

·To be a team player.

·Relocation expenses

·Career Development and training

·Just & Compassionate Culture

·Award winning Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion initiatives

·Vivup employee benefits platform and salary sacrifice scheme

·Salary Finance and Financial Wellbeing support

·Employee Assistance Programme

·Health & Wellness initiatives

·11 Staff Networks including parents & carers network, ethnic minorities network, LGBT+ network and Disability network to name a few

·Flexible working and agile working

·Cycle to work scheme

Working for our organisation

Why NELFT?

NELFT is an award-winning community and mental health Trust, providing healthcare for over million people, ensuring our patients, family and friends feel confident that their health needs are met. We are committed to delivering thebest careto the communities we serve across North East London, Essex and Kent.

With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled healthcare professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care. Joining us will provide you with unparalleled access to training opportunities, continuous CPD, peer support groups, and a robust supervision and appraisal system.

We are currently recruiting to a Community Consultant Paediatrician position in the Redbridge Specialist Children Service, based at The Grove, Grove Road, Chadwell Heath, RM6 4XH. This is a new, substantive, full-time post. This post is currently vacant, and we wish to recruit to it as soon as possible.

You will join another Consultant Paediatricians, 1wte Specialist Grade Doctor, Specialty Doctors, 1wte Senior Trainee, and GP Trainee within the service, and will have the opportunity to influence future direction, treatment, and models of design in the area in which you work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be expected to:

·Work as part of multidisciplinary teams providing care to babies, children and young people across Redbridge.

·Provide senior medical support and guidance to the team

·Work directly with babies, children and young people, and their families and liaise as appropriate with other external health providers and acute hospitals

·Participate in the local Child Protection rota

·Support your peers and team leader, and be an effective team member whilst allowing them to work with their own initiative

·Work alongside Consultant Paediatricians, 1wte Specialist Grade Doctor, Specialty Doctors, 1wte Senior Trainee, and GP Trainee within the service

·Commit to collaborative working, actively supporting and liaising with other health and social professionals, and agencies.

Person specification

GMC

• Full GMC registration with a licence to practice

Qualifications

• CCT or equivalent

Specialist Register

• Inclusion in, or eligibility for inclusion in the Specialist Register or within 6 months of obtaining CCST

Experience

• At least 2 years’ experience in Community Child Health.

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

• A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
• A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
• Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
• Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.