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

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; North East; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Part time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Consultant in Community Paediatrics to join their team. This less than full-time position involves providing expert opinions on pediatric cases, engaging in research, and participating in teaching undergraduate medical students. Candidates must be registered medical practitioners with experience in community child health. The role promises a commitment to ongoing education and development.

Qualifications

• Registered medical practitioners eligible for the Specialist Register.
• Experience in managing acute and longstanding paediatric problems.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert consultations on paediatric problems.
• Develop and manage care systems for children with specific disorders.
• Involve in financial management of the paediatric budget.

Skills

Experience in community child health

Skills in safeguarding

Health assessments for children in care

Education

Medical qualifications and registration

Eligibility 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

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: To undertake administrative duties in relation to the care of 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: 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.

This advert closes on Friday 3 Oct 2025