Consultant Community Paediatrician

Whittington Hospital NHS Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 109,000 - 146,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare trust in London seeks an 8 PA Consultant in Community Paediatrics to oversee the Named Doctor for Children Looked After and conduct developmental assessments. The role involves working closely with social care and the community team to ensure health and well-being of children in care. Ideal candidates will have GMC registration, experience in paediatrics, and strong communication skills. Salary ranges from £109,725 to £145,478 per annum pro rata.

Qualifications

• Full GMC registration required.
• Experience working in a multidisciplinary Child Development team.
• Ability to carry out comprehensive developmental assessments.

Responsibilities

• Take an active role in assessing health of Children Looked After.
• Conduct initial and review health assessments.
• Advise on health matters related to Children Looked After.

Skills

Looked After Children assessments

Multidisciplinary Child Development team experience

Managing complex neurological problems

Level 3 Safeguarding training

General paediatric problems management

Excellent communication skills

Education

Full GMC registration

MB BS or equivalent MRCP/MRCPCH

CCT in Paediatrics

Job description

Whittington Health NHS Trust is seeking an 8 PA Consultant in Community Paediatrics to take the role of Named Doctor for Children Looked After.

We are looking for a developmental paediatrician to join our Islington Community Paediatrics Team at the Northern Health Centre, Upper Holloway, London. This post covers the Named Dr for Children Looked After Service as well as a wide variety of community paediatrics; doing regular developmental paediatrics including an MDT clinic for severe physical disabilities, contributing to the diagnosis of a variety of developmental disorders and participating on the Child Protection rota with the Camden community consultant team.

Islington has a team of experienced Community Paediatricians, and the Named Doctor for Children Looked After will be working closely and co-located with Social Care at their Highbury office on Elwood Street.

There is some flexibility to accommodate special interests and opportunities exist for developing clinical interests.

Interview date: 17 December 2025

Main duties of the job

Please see the full Job Description and the Person Specification for further details about the job role.

About us

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trustbelieves that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Job responsibilities

Duties of the post

Job Plan:

Summary outline:

Named Dr for Children Looked After (2 PA). This includes regular clinics for Initial Health Assessments

Other CLA work (2 PA) participation in team meeting and all other related to this role multidisciplinary work

SPA (1.5 PA) this includes departmental meetings, CP peer review, mandatory training and own appraisal

Neurodevelopmental clinics: (1 PA) uni - and multi-disciplinary (the latter for children with conditions significantly affecting their posture and movement who are not in special needs schools.

ASD diagnostic clinic (0.5PA) - be part of the Social Communication Team and participate in the MDT diagnostic process.

CP second on call (0.25 PA) 2 hours per on-call, the CP on call is fortnightly

Educational supervision (0.25 PA) - for one doctor in training per 6 months

Epilepsy clinic (0.5PA)- together with current doctor, to be decided if this will be on site for special schools or in the hospitals outpatient department

There are no out of hours duties. The specific time allocation to be determined but must include Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Occasional flexibility with possibility to cover CP on calls on Fridays at minimum 6 weeks notice would be desirable.

There are around 300 children in care at any one time in Islington and around 8-15 children become Looked after per month.

The post holder will take an active role, together with relevant colleagues, in assessing and promoting the health and well-being of Children Looked After. This includes, but is not limited to:

Initial and review health assessments for Children Looked After and ensure the provision of a written health report on each child becoming looked after

Supervising trainees in the above health assessments.

Advise on health matters that arise in connection with Children Looked After and the permanence process.

Where there are identified concerns, as part of the multiagency team, cases are discussed with the social worker and attendance at professional meetings is expected if required.

Attendance at monthly North Central London Named and Designated Doctors peer supervision.

Provide a written report on the health of prospective carers, which will include interpretation of health and lifestyle information provided by the applicant and their GP.

Ensure that the department complies with all policies and procedures in line with legislation and national guidance; and keeps these updated in a timely manner.

Contribute to departmental and interagency training of staff.

Please see the attached job description for full details and sample timetable.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Full GMC registration
• Full GMC registration MB BS or equivalent MRCP/MRCPCH or equivalent
• CCT (or equivalent), or within 6 months of CT date, or entry on the Specialist Register of GMC for Paediatrics
• Portfolio pathway (formerly CESR) applicants must be on the Specialist register at the point of application
• BSc in medical subject
• PhD, Md, MSc, DCH
• CCT in Paediatric Neurodisability

Clinical Experience and Skills

• Able to undertake statutory Looked After Children assessments, including those with complex healthcare needs
• Experience of working in a multidisciplinary Child Development team and ability to carry out comprehensive developmental assessments
• Experience of managing children with complex neurological and developmental problems
• Level 3 Safeguarding training
• Competence in providing assessment of children and young people with safeguarding concerns
• Competence in management of common general paediatric problems - acute and chronic
• Valid BLS training
• Knowledge of relevant national policies and implication for clinical service provision for LAC children
• Experience as a clinician in paediatric neurodisability, manging epilepsy, and children with complex health needs
• Valid APLS and NLS

Teaching

• Experience of Undergraduate and Postgraduate teaching
• Additional teaching qualifications
• Ability to work as a member of a multidisciplinary team, seeking advice from, sharing experience with, and offering support to other team members
• Experience of working in an interagency team
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to interpret and communicate on a broad range of health information in a social and education context
• Strong leadership qualities including ability to build effective relationships, influence, and negotiate with others, political astuteness and sensitivity, ability to manage conflict of interest
• Able to analyse holistic health chronologies and provide a written comprehensive report detailing the implications of the information for the care experienced child's current and future health and wellbeing

Management ability

• Ability to undertake administrative tasks
• Ability to prioritise tasks
• Ability to supervise junior staff
• Completed recognised leadership course

Participation in Clinical Governance

• Record of completed audit and service improvement project
• An understanding of clinical governance and its application to the role of Named Doctor for LAC
• Experience in NHS complaint handling
• Experience in Clinical incident reporting
• Experience in Training in and experience of appraisal
• Experience in Risk management training

Personal Skills

• Training in communication skills, counselling, educational supervision

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.

£109,725 to £145,478 a yearper annum pro rata (for part time)