COMMUNITY PAEDIATRIC SPECIALIST GRADE DOCTOR (BASILDON) (NHS Medical & Dental: Specialist Grade[...]

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust; Basildon; On-site; GBP 96,000 - 108,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading community and mental health Trust dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare to over 4.9 million people. This role offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on the health and wellbeing of children and young people. You will work closely with experienced professionals in a supportive environment that fosters innovation and collaboration. With a commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion, you will benefit from extensive training opportunities and a culture that values your contributions. If you're passionate about paediatric care and eager to advance your career, this position is perfect for you.

Benefits

Flexible Working Opportunities

Employee Assistance Programme

Health & Wellness Initiatives

Cycle to Work Scheme

Career Development and Training

Relocation Expenses

Award Winning Equality and Diversity Initiatives

Qualifications

• Full GMC Registration with a license to practice.
• At least 4 years post-graduate training including 2 years in community paediatrics.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior medical support and guidance to the team.
• Work directly with babies, children, and young people in a multidisciplinary team.

Skills

GMC Registration

Child Safeguarding Knowledge

Community Paediatrics Experience

Innovative Healthcare Practices

Education

Postgraduate Medical Training

Mastery in Physical Health Management

Job description

COMMUNITY PAEDIATRIC SPECIALIST GRADE DOCTOR (BASILDON)

NHS Medical & Dental: Specialist Grade

Main area PAEDIATRICS Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Specialist Grade Contract 24 months (Fixed Term) Hours Full time - 10 sessions per week Job ref 395-MED133-25

Site Great Oaks Clinic, Great Oaks Town Basildon Salary £96,990 - £107,155 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 02/05/2025 23:59

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 PAEDIATRIC SPECIALIST GRADE DOCTOR

(BASILDON, SS14 1EH)

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

Contract

Hours

None

Location

Qualifications needed:

· Full GMC Registration with a license to practice

· Mastery in the management of a broad range of physical health conditions in babies, children, and young people, including neurodevelopmental disorders

· At least 4 years post graduate training including 2 years community paediatrics (or demonstrate equivalent experience and competences).

· Knowledge and training in Child safeguarding

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 4.9 million people, ensuring our patients, family and friends feel confident that their health needs are met. We are committed to delivering the best care to 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 Paediatrics Specialist Grade Doctor position in the Integrated Child Health Service at Great Oaks Clinic, Great Oaks, Basildon, SS14 1EH. This is an established, fixed-term for 24 months, full time post – 10 PAs with 8 DCC and 2 SPAs. This post is currently vacant, and we wish to recruit to it as soon as possible.

You will join 5.6wte Consultant Paediatricians, 2.8wte Specialist Grade Doctors, and 1wte Specialty Doctor 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 South West Essex.

· 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 5.6wte Consultant Paediatricians, 2.8wte Specialist Grade Doctors, and 1wte Specialty Doctor 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 license to practice

Knowledge

• • Mastery in the management of a broad range of physical health conditions in babies, children, and young people, including neurodevelopmental disorders
• • Knowledge and training in Child safeguarding

Experience

• • At least 4 years post graduate training including 2 years community paediatrics (or demonstrate equivalent experience and competences).

Qualifications

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.

We encourage you to view our Trust website and read the news stories, which will give you more information about the breadth of the organisation and our innovative services.

Please also view our social media pages to get an insight into life at #TeamNELFT.