Community Paediatrics Specialist Grade Doctor

NELFT NHS FOUNDATION TRUST; Grays; On-site; GBP 72,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare organization in Grays is recruiting a Community Paediatrics Specialist Grade Doctor to join the Integrated Child Health Service. This full-time role involves providing medical care to babies, children, and young people across South West Essex, while supporting a multidisciplinary team. Candidates must have a full GMC registration, extensive experience in community pediatrics, and child safeguarding knowledge. Join us to enhance child health services in a collaborative environment.

Benefits

Relocation expenses

Career Development and training

Health & Wellness initiatives

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• At least 4 years post graduate training including 2 years community paediatrics.
• Proven ability in managing a wide range of physical health conditions.
• Knowledge and training in Child safeguarding.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior medical support and guidance to the team.
• Work directly with babies, children, and young people.
• Participate in the local Child Protection rota.
• Support collaborative working with health and social professionals.

Skills

Team player

Innovative

Understanding of community paediatric care

Child safeguarding knowledge

Education

Full GMC Registration with a license to practice

Postgraduate training in community paediatrics

Valid Level 3 Safeguarding Training

Job description

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

NELFT Benefits:

• 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
• Retail Discounts
• Flexible working and agile working

Cycle to work scheme, 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 Gifford House, Thurrock Community Hospital, Long Lane, Grays, RM16 2PX. This is an established, substantive, full-time role. It 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.

• 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

Benefits

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 efforts to 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.

Supporting our Armed Forces

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.

Qualifications

• 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
• Valid Level 3 Safeguarding Training.

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 five 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, 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.