Consultant in Community Paediatrics 8PA | The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading NHS trust in the region seeks a motivated individual for a less than full-time Consultant in Community Paediatrics role. The successful candidate will provide expert clinical opinions and partake in the teaching of medical students, while also contributing to developing care systems for children with various conditions. Flexible working arrangements can be discussed. Apply by October 3, 2025.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Commitment to teaching and research

Qualifications

• Registered medical practitioner and eligibility for Specialist Register.
• Experience in community child health and skills in safeguarding.
• Flexibility for a flexible working arrangement.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert opinions on various paediatric problems.
• Develop care systems for children with specific disorders.
• Participate in teaching undergraduate medical students.

Skills

Experience in community child health

Skills in safeguarding

Assessment of developmental conditions

Neurodevelopmental disorders expertise

Education

Registered medical practitioner

Eligible for Specialist Register

Job description

Overview

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

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]

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.

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.
• Clinical: 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.
• Clinical: Undergo Continued Medical Education (CME) in accordance with guidelines stipulated by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH).
• Clinical: 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.
• Administrative: To undertake general administrative duties within a context of compliance with Directorate and Trust aims and objectives.
• Administrative: 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.
• Teaching: Participate in the teaching and training of any other health care professionals within the department.
• Teaching: Consider the option to develop teaching skills to join the trusts outstanding teaching and training leadership group
• Teaching: 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.
• Teaching: The incumbent will be expected to contribute to the teaching of all levels of paediatric postgraduate trainees.
• Teaching: 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.

Qualifications/Requirements

• Registered medical practitioner and on, or eligible to join, the Specialist Register within six months of the date of the Appointments Committee.
• Experience and/or training in community child health, including skills in assessing children with developmental conditions, neurodevelopmental disorders, safeguarding, and performing health assessments for children in care.
• Flexibility for a flexible working arrangement; willingness to discuss accommodation of flexible working with the service.

Additional information

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]

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.

This advert closes on Friday 3 Oct 2025