Consultant Community Paediatrician

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust; Enfield; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust in Enfield seeks a Consultant Community Paediatrician with Specialist Interest in Children's Safeguarding to join our senior medical team.

You will work across Enfield Community Services, provide leadership, supervise trainees, and contribute to teaching, audit and guideline development, while coordinating care for children with neuro-developmental, emotional and safeguarding needs.

Qualifications

• Substantial clinical experience in Community Paediatrics.
• Experience in management of neuro-developmental, emotional, behavioural and attachment difficulties.
• Experience in child protection and adult health issues related to parenting.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior clinician services to Community Paediatric services as per job plan and on-call requirements.
• Collaborate with consultants and nursing staff to ensure efficient use of Trust resources and contribute to quality governance.
• Participate in teaching, supervision and training of medical trainees and multiprofessional staff.
• Contribute to clinical guideline development, audit and CPD.

Job description

We have a busy, dedicated paediatric child development service seeing hundred's of children in the local community of Enfield. The CDT is fully integrated with psychology, allied health professionals and nursing staff, based at Cedar House and within other community settings. The successful candidate will join a team of 4x Consultant Community Paediatricians & 2x Specialty Doctors, and will undertake work within Community Paediatrics across our Enfield Community Services remit., The following is not an exhaustive or exclusive list of the duties of a consultant within Paediatrics The appointee to this post is required to:

• Provide senior clinician services to Community Paediatric services as per job plan or as agreed within the Trust, and as required when on call.
• Work with consultant colleagues and nursing staff to ensure efficient use of Trust's resources and contribute actively to clinical governance in the department and to development of quality enhancement projects in the unit.
• Show flexibility and undertake different appropriate clinical tasks within allocated DCC sessions at the request of the clinical manager, as the need arises.
• Actively participate in the Unit's Teaching Programme and undertake supervision, teaching and training of medical trainees and other multiprofessional staff, in line with guidance from the relevant Royal Colleges or specialty bodies.
• Actively participate in clinical guidelines development, audit, and CPD

North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system - consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICs's, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICs infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches. We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George's University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities. Take a tour of our hospitalhere

Other Roles and Responsibilities:

The post holder will work with colleagues and the Clinical Audit and Effectiveness department to ensure that relevant clinical audit is carried out. Consultants have continuing responsibility for the care of patients in their charge and for the proper functioning of their department. They are expected to undertake administrative duties associated with the care of their patients and the running of their clinical departments. The appointee will be expected to take responsibility for maintaining their continuing medical education to the standard set by the relevant Royal College. All consultants are expected to participate in the management of their own Department and the Hospital as a whole and will be encouraged to develop their management and leadership skills. Therefore, it is expected the post holder will make efforts to attend their specialities management meetings where possible.

We are seeking to appoint dynamic and enthusiastic candidate to the position Consultant Community Paediatrician with a Specialist Interest in Children's Safeguarding within our Enfield Community Services Senior Medical team. All applicants are required to have substantial clinical experience in Community Paediatrics and they should have relevant experience in the clinical management of children including those with neuro-developmental, emotional, behavioural and attachment difficulties, child protection, and adult health issues pertinent to parenting.