COMMUNITY CONSULTANT PAEDIATRICIAN (NEURODEVELOPMENT)

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Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in North East London seeks a Community Consultant Paediatrician to join a supportive environment focused on community child health. The position involves working with a multidisciplinary team in a dynamic role dedicated to children with health needs while contributing to service development.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Employee assistance programs

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Comprehensive professional development support

Qualifications

• At least 2 years’ experience in Community Child Health.
• Fully registered GMC practitioner with a license.
• Eligible for Specialist Register within 6 months of obtaining CCST.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior medical support and guidance to community paediatric teams.
• Manage clinical cases for children and young people with health needs.
• Develop and supervise assessments related to ASD/ADHD services.

Skills

Community Child Health

Multidisciplinary Team Collaboration

Assessment and Treatment

Education

Full GMC Registration

CCT or Equivalent

Inclusion in Specialist Register

Job description

COMMUNITY CONSULTANT PAEDIATRICIAN (NEURODEVELOPMENT)

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

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

FOR BHR NEURODEVELOPMENTAL TEAM (BARKING & DAGENHAM, HAVERING & REDBRIDGE)

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

Contract

Fixed Term: 2 years

Hours

None

Location

Acorn Centre, 306 London Road, Romford, RM7 9NH

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.

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Main duties of the job

We are currently recruiting to a Community Consultant Paediatrician position which forms part of the BHR Paediatric Neurodevelopment Service but will mainly be part of the community Havering Specialist Children Service, based at Acorn Centre, 306 London Road, Romford, RM7 9NH. This is a new, substantive, full-time post. This post is currently vacant, and we wish to recruit to it as soon as possible.

Working for our organisation

The successful candidate will work as part of a fully integrated multidisciplinary specialist team that works across the Barking and Dagenham, Havering, and Redbridge health economy, however will focus on providing care to babies, children, and young people with health needs, across the Havering sector of the service, and will also be part of the Havering Specialist service, where they will work closely with other paediatricians and CAMHS Psychiatrists.

The successful applicant will also become part of a large (30+ community paediatricians), dynamic, community paediatric team, across the whole of North East London Foundation Trust.

The successful candidate will provide senior medical support to the teams, and direct input on clinical cases. The consultant will be expected to provide guidance and supervision to the teams, work directly with babies, children, and young people (and their families), and liaise as appropriate with other external health providers, and acute hospitals.

There will also be the opportunity for the post holder to further develop links already established with the local acute trusts, to continually improve our services. There are close links with the acute paediatric departments at King George Hospital (Ilford) and Queens Hospital (Romford) (BHRUT).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others’ workload in the day-to-day allocation of work.
2. To deputise when required in the team manager’s absence and delegate appropriately to other medical staff.
3. To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them.
4. To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.
5. To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing, and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust’s risk register.
6. The post holder will support the development of the ASD/ADHD service, working alongside the multidisciplinary specialist team. They will contribute towards assessment and relevant investigations and supervising MDT colleagues. They will produce reports to contribute to statutory work including EHC plans.
7. Leverage opportunities to develop the integrated multidisciplinary Neurodevelopmental service across BHR.
8. Provide a high quality, accessible, timely, efficient, effective, comprehensive and specialist Neurodevelopmental service for children and and young people, their carers/parents and families.
9. Provide and/or support the provision of evidence-based assessment and clinical management for service users. This will include providing highly specialist assessment and contributing to multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment of children and young people referred to the ASD service.
10. Responsible for assessment, treatment, and systemic outcome measurement in the specialist care pathway.
11. Contribute to coordination and service development within the Neurodevelopmental service
12. Managing waiting list within specialist care pathway and ensuring waiting lists are at clinically safe level. Prioritise resources in line with clinical needs.

Person specification

GMC

• Full GMC registration with a licence to practice

Qualifications

• CCT or equivalent

Knowledge

• 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.

We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Gold Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme. We have supportive policies, guaranteed interview schemes for veterans. reservists and military spouses and give additional leave to our Reservists so that they can attend their annual camp.

Equal opportunities employer

We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.

We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities.If you require this application in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape please contact the recruitment team on 0300 300 1530 or email [e-mail].

Correspondence with us

You are advised to regularly check your emails (including any junk mail/spam folders) for correspondence related to this post.

As part of our recruitment process, we may be required to share information you provide on the application form with NHS Counter Fraud Authority (NHSCFA) and/or other organisations for the purpose of the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of fraud or any other unlawful activity affecting the NHS. We also use third party providers to check and verify your qualifications who may be contacting you on our behalf to verify the same.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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