Consultant in Community Paediatrics 8PA

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; North East; On-site; GBP 109,000 - 146,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading NHS foundation trust in the UK is seeking a Consultant in Community Paediatrics to provide expert clinical care and assessments. This less than full-time role offers opportunities in teaching, research, and leadership within the department. Successful candidates will have experience in community child health and be registered medical practitioners. The position includes a commitment to flexible working arrangements and competitive compensation of £109,725 to £145,478 per annum pro rata.

Qualifications

• Registered medical practitioner and eligible for Specialist Register within six months.
• Experience and training in community child health.
• Ability to perform health assessments for children in care.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert opinions on pediatric cases.
• Conduct child development assessments.
• Participate in teaching undergraduate medical students.

Skills

Experience in Community Paediatrics

Child Protection

Leadership skills in child services

Education

Primary Medical Qualification

Full GMC Registration

Higher Degree

Job description

Overview

Go back The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Consultant in Community Paediatrics 8PA

The closing date is 03 October 2025

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team as a less than full-time (8PA) Consultant in Community Paediatrics. This is a new clinical post, designed to support the continuing development of our clinical service. You will join a large team of consultants in paediatric medicine, which includes several consultant colleagues in Community Paediatrics.

The department of paediatric medicine provides a comprehensive acute, general and community paediatric service to the children and young people of Newcastle upon Tyne and its surrounding area. A successful candidate should have experience and/ or training in community child health, including skills in assessing children with developmental conditions, neurodevelopmental disorders, and more specifically skills in safeguarding, and performing health assessments for children in care.

In addition to the challenges of the role, we can offer you a commitment to teaching, education, research and audit. Candidates for the post must be registered medical practitioners and on, or eligible to join, the Specialist Register within six months of the date of the Appointments Committee.

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a candidate to complement the current needs of the Community Paediatric Department. These include child development assessments of children with broad developmental disorders but also more specifically those with social communication disorders; the candidate will be involved in autism assessments and form part of the autism team. In addition, there is the opportunity for the candidate to take on a leadership role either in the autism service or child in care team. Other duties will include child protection medical assessments, and initial health assessments for children in care.

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. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: Clinical lead for community paediatrics Dr Anna Thorley on 0191 282 1156 option 4, or via email at [e-mail]

About us

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We\'re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients \'contacts\' each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people\'s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

Job responsibilities

Clinical:

• To provide expert opinions on patients with a wide range of acute and longstanding paediatric problems, taking independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients referred to them.
• Work closely with nursing, and other staff to create / further develop systems of care dedicated to the management of children with specific disorders, in keeping with the general philosophy of the department.
• Undergo Continued Medical Education (CME) in accordance with guidelines stipulated by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH).
• Undertake an annual appraisal and job plan review. It is expected that objectives within job plan reviews will be based on Trust objectives such as fulfilment of fixed contractual commitments on the basis of a 42-week working year with due allowance for statutory holidays.

Administrative:

• Undertake administrative duties in relation to the care of his/her patients and in relation to the running of the Family Board in co-operation with the Heads of Department, Directorate Manager and Clinical Director.
• The appointee is entitled to become a member of the Senior Medical Staff Committee of the hospital.
• To undertake general administrative duties within a context of compliance with Directorate and Trust aims and objectives.
• Become involved with the financial management of the paediatric departmental budget - at all times looking to ensure the delivery of high-quality care to agreed standards, but at the same time reviewing working practices to provide the most efficient use of resources.

Research:

• Research has a high priority within GNCH. The Trust welcomes and encourages research as a high-profile activity that compliments the service provided. The emphasis being on studies that fall within the National Institute of Health Research Portfolio.
• The successful applicant will have an opportunity to take part in our thriving clinical trials department.

Teaching:

• Participate in the teaching of undergraduate medical students from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in stage 3 attachment in Child Health and stage 4 SSC students.
• Participate in the teaching and training of any other health care professionals within the department.
• Consider the option to develop teaching skills to join the trusts outstanding teaching and training leadership group
• Active involvement in the clinical supervision of all postgraduate trainees in the department with specific responsibility for a small number of individuals as educational supervisor under the direction of the college tutor.
• The incumbent will be expected to contribute to the teaching of all levels of paediatric postgraduate trainees.
• Participate in the teaching and training of any other health care professionals within the Directorate an on-going and active contribution to the education of nurse practitioners on the admissions wards is an essential component of this job.

Person Specification

Education, Qualifications and Specialist Skills

• Primary Medical Qualification
• Full GMC Registration
• Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register (within 6 months from the date of the AAC)
• MRCPCH or equivalent
• Higher Degree
• Special skills training in the specialty
• CCT in CCH

Clinical Experience

• Wide experience in Community Paediatrics including experience in Child Protection
• Wide experience in Acute General Paediatrics
• Evidence of a substantial commitment to the specialty
• Ability to offer an expert clinical opinion within the speciality
• Ability to take independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients referred to a tertiary centre

Management and Administration Experience

• Involvement with management and project leadership within the specialty
• Evidence of involvement in authoring or reviewing clinical guidelines
• An understanding of Clinical Governance
• Ability to participate in management process
• Must work well as a team member
• Proven management and administrative experience and understanding of management goals
• Evidence of leadership / project management
• Evidence of having implemented change
• Experience in developing and implementing new technologies

Teaching

• Experience of supervising junior medical staff
• Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
• Ability to teach clinical / technical / practical skills
• Attendance at courses to develop teaching skills
• Postgraduate qualification in medical education

Research

• Evidence of involvement in and understanding of research methodology and publication of findings
• Research/critical review of literature
• Publications in the last five years

Audit

• Evidence of participation in audit
• Evidence of having changed practice as a result of audit
• Evidence of having revisited the audit to assess improvement

Personal Attributes

• Alignment with the Trust\'s values
• Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development
• Committed to share in professional, managerial and teaching responsibilities necessary to fulfil the obligations of the Directorate to the Trust and its workforce
• A commitment to personal / unit CPD
• Ability and willingness to work the on-call rota
• Ability and willingness to work a more flexible pattern of working in the future if required, including evening and weekend 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.

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£109,725 to £145,478 per annum pro rata