Consultant Community Paediatrician

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust; Catford; On-site; GBP 82,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization is seeking a Consultant Community Paediatrician to join their team at the Kaleidoscope Children's Centre. The role focuses on assessing and diagnosing social communication disorders in children under five. With no overnight commitments and opportunities to lead, this is a pivotal role in improving care pathways for young children and their families. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in community paediatrics and relevant qualifications.

Benefits

Supportive multidisciplinary team

No overnight commitments

Chance to lead service development

Qualifications

• Medical degree required, MBBS or equivalent.
• Minimum 2 years experience in Community Child Health.
• Strong understanding of safeguarding protocols.

Responsibilities

• Assess and manage children with neurodevelopmental concerns.
• Participate in the infant safeguarding rota.
• Provide clinical supervision to trainees and specialists.

Skills

Experience in community paediatrics

Expertise in social communication disorders

Clinical supervision

Effective communication

Leadership skills

Education

Medical degree, MBBS or equivalent

Member or Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics

MSc/Diploma in community child health

Tools

Microsoft Office

Patient information systems

Job description

Join Us as a Consultant Community Paediatrician - Shape the Future of Children's Services

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is excited to invite applications for aConsultant Community Paediatricianto join our dynamic team at theKaleidoscope Children's Centre in Lewisham. We are looking for a compassionate, inclusive clinician who shares our values and is committed to delivering outstanding care.

Thisnewly created postoffers a unique opportunity to lead within thecommunication clinic pathway, focusing on theassessment and diagnosis of social communication disorders in children under five. You will play a pivotal role in shaping early intervention and improving outcomes for young children and their families.

You'll be joining at atransformational time, as we redesign our clinical pathways toreduce waiting timesandenhance patient experience. Your expertise will directly contribute to service innovation and improved access to care.

What we offer:

• A supportive, multidisciplinary team including 9 Consultant Community Paediatricians, SAS doctors, a Specialty Doctor, senior therapists, and clinical nurse specialists
• No overnight or CSA medical commitments
• Participation in the daytime child protection rota
• A chance to lead and influence service development in a high-impact role

If you're ready to make a meaningful difference and help shape the future of community paediatrics, we'd love to hear from you.

Please note JD is pending RCP approval

Main duties of the job

This is a new post with a special interest in the communication clinic pathway with assessments of children with social communication disorders. This role will have alead within the communication clinic for diagnosis for the under 5-year-old group.There is no overnight commitment. The postholders will contribute to the daytime child protection rota, but there is no expectation to contribute to Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA) medicals.The postholder will join a team of 9 Consultant Community Paediatricians, 2 community SAS doctors and one Speciality Doctor. Senior therapists and clinical nurse specialist also contribute to assessments and care for young people.

About us

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

• Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
• Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
• Improving the experience of staff with disability
• Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
• Making equalities mainstream

Job responsibilities

Clinical Responsibilities:

The post holder will work in all aspects of Community Paediatrics, suited to their experience and competencies and the priorities of service provision.

The post holder will undertake assessment and management of children with neurodevelopmental concerns and safeguarding.

Undertake neurodevelopmental assessments including for Autism and Social Communication Disorders.

Participate in the consultant-led Child Protection rota.

Undertake health assessments for Looked After Children and provide written reports as appropriate.

Support and advice colleagues in the clinical assessment and care of children and young people, whilst being clear about others personal clinical professional accountability.

Provision of supervision to trainees and specialist doctors and extended members of the clinical team including clinical nurse specialists and AHPs.

General responsibilities

To participate in clinical supervision and continuing professional development of both career and training grade medical staff

To work with Community Paediatric services and Childrens Community Services Directorate to meet service commitments and needs of children and families.

To develop care pathways across the acute and community services

To participate in the development of Specialist Child Health Services in collaboration with other members of the management team

To support the collection of relevant information on the work of the medical team, detailing the work of the service for stakeholders.

Medical Education & Teaching:

To take part in clinical and educational supervision of post graduate trainees.

To participate in the medical student training programme.

To plan and deliver training for GP trainees and other post-graduate teaching.

Contribute to the delivery of training for health staff and inter-agency training.

To liaise with other agencies on clinical and operational matters relevant to the work of the service.

Provide advice and signposting to other professionals about legal processes, key research and policy documents.

Liaise with professional leads from other agencies, such as Education and Childrens Social care.

Clinical Audit and Clinical Governance:

Participate in clinical audit, incident reporting and analysis and to ensure resulting actions are implemented.

Work closely with the Directorate, Patient and Public Involvement panels in relation to clinical and services developments as delegated.

Participate in ensuring NICE requirements are reviewed and implemented and monitored in the speciality areas.

Continuing Professional Development:

Attend relevant local, regional, and national continuing professional development activities to maintain competence.

Meet the organisations requirements for training attendance.

Receive regular clinical supervision and undertake reflective supervision

Clinical Audit and Clinical Governance:

Participate in clinical audit, incident reporting and analysis and to ensure resulting actions are implemented.

Work closely with the Directorate, Patient and Public Involvement panels in relation to clinical and services developments as delegated.

Participate in ensuring NICE requirements are reviewed and implemented and monitored in the speciality areas.

To ensure clinical guidelines and protocols are adhered to by medical staff and updated on a regular basis.

Review clinical outcomes in designated area using external benchmarking data where appropriate, to identify and advise variances to the Clinical Director.

To keep fully informed about best practice in the speciality areas and ensure implications for practice changes are discussed with the Clinical Director.

To role model good practice for infection control to all members of the multidisciplinary team.

Continuing Professional Development:

Attend relevant local, regional, and national continuing professional development activities to maintain competence.

Meet the organisations requirements for training attendance.

Receive regular supervision and undertake reflective practice.

Policy, Planning and Management:

Support the Trust to deliver quality patient care Contribute to the development of clinical and organisational protocols and guidelines

Assist in the development of the Annual Service Plan for the Directorate and Division and participate in the strategic planning of the service Comply with all Trust policies

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Medical degree, MBBS or equivalent
• Member or Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and child health or equivalent
• Full and Specialist registration (and with a licence to practise) with the General Medical Council (GMC) or be eligible for registration within six months of interview.
• Applicants that are UK trained, must also be a holder of a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT), or be within six months of award of CCT by date of interview.
• Applicants that are non-UK trained, they will be required to show evidence of equivalence to the UK CCT and be on the GMC Specialist Register/Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration (CESR)
• Grid training in community paediatrics
• MSc /Diploma in community child health or relevant subject

Clinical Experience

• Comprehensive Training and experience in community paediatrics
• Evidence of training and experience gained obtaining CCT in Community Child Health (CCH) or if CCT in General Paediatrics, must be able to demonstrate equivalent competencies required for CCT in CCH have been achieved
• At least 2 years' experience in Community Child Health including Neuro-developmental paediatrics, Safeguarding, Looked after children
• Training and experience in the identification and management of suspected child abuse
• Clinical experience in the field of safeguarding and substantial experience of the legislation relating to children and young people and the court process
• Experience of working with vulnerable children and young people and families and children in challenging situations.
• Valid BLS and NLS training
• Valid level 3 safeguarding training
• Training and experience in assessment of ADHD Experience
• Experience of lead role in an area of child health
• Broad experience of working within the NHS

Clinical Audit

• Active audit interest demonstrated by at least one completed clinical audit in the last year.
• Understanding of NHS systems and audit processes
• Evidence of service improvement projects and audits
• Publication of audit results.
• Experience in service development and quality improvement projects relating to Community Child Health
• Evidence of involvement and /or experience in risk processes such as Serious Incident reviews and patient safety systems

Teaching Experience

• Experience and interest in undergraduate teaching
• Skill and ability in formal and informal teaching for both under/ postgraduate students and nursing/midwifery staff
• Educational supervision accreditation
• An understanding of current issues in medical education and training
• Previous experience in trainee Supervision
• Knowledge of current changes in paediatric training
• Higher teaching qualification
• Presentations at National or International meetings
• Publications in peer reviewed journals

Management and Administrative Experience

• Understands the management structure of the NHS Evidence of risk management

IT Skills

• Ability to use Microsoft office packages, e.g. MS Word, Excel, Access & PowerPoint.
• Ability to use patient information systems

Other Attributes

• Effective communicator - verbal and written
• Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Demonstrates leadership and organisational skills
• Evidence of interest/training in management
• Will contribute to Departmental/ Trust management
• Will assist with Departmental/ Trust development
• Aware of equal opportunities issues
• Recent experience/familiarity of UK hospital systems and practices
• Ability to lead a team and form effective working relationships
• Ability to inspire, motivate and develop staff
• Has experience of committee work and prepared to undertake committee work

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.

Divisional Medical Director CYP Services