Consultant Paediatrician, Neurodevelopmental

NHS Jobs; Romford; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Jobs is seeking a qualified clinician to join the Neurodevelopmental service for children and young people. The role involves organising and prioritising workloads, deputising for the team manager, and ensuring adherence to Trust protocols.

You will contribute to audits, risk management, and MDT collaboration to deliver high-quality neurodevelopmental care. Responsibilities include developing the Autism/ADHD service, generating reports for statutory work, and supporting service integration

Qualifications

• Autonomous registered practitioner accountable for own actions.

Responsibilities

• Organise and prioritise own and others’ workload.
• Deputise in the team manager’s absence and delegate to medical staff.
• Adhere to Trust protocols and maintain organisational knowledge.
• Provide accurate records for audit requirements.
• Support risk management and maintain risk registers.
• Support development of the Autism/ADHD service with MDT colleagues.

Job description

Main responsibilities:

• To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others’ workload in the day-to-day allocation of work.
• To deputise when required in the team manager’s absence and delegate appropriately to other medical staff.
• To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them.
• To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.
• To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing, and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust’s risk register.
• The post holder will support the development of the Autism/ADHD service, working alongside the multidisciplinary specialist team. They will contribute towards assessment and relevant investigations and supervising MDT colleagues. They will produce reports to contribute to statutory work including EHC plans.
• Leverage opportunities to develop the integrated multidisciplinary Neurodevelopmental service across BHR
• Provide a high quality, accessible, timely, efficient, effective, comprehensive and specialist Neurodevelopmental service for children and young people, their carers/parents and families.
• Provide and/or support the provision of evidence-based assessment and clinical management for service users. This will include providing highly specialist assessment and contributing to multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment of children and young people referred to the Autism service.
• Responsible for assessment, treatment, and systemic outcome measurement in the specialist care pathway
• Contribute to coordination and service development within the Neurodevelopmental service
• Managing waiting list within specialist care pathway and ensuring waiting lists are at clinically safe level. Prioritise resources in line with clinical needs

Clinical Skills:

• To act as an autonomous, registered practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for their own unsupervised actions guided by the professional code of conduct and Trust guidelines and protocols.
• The post holder will have full registration with a licence to practice from the General Medical Council (GMC).
• Further professional knowledge will have been gained through accredited courses, workshops, study, and in-house training programmes.
• To be responsible, and accountable, for service delivery to clients/patients.
• To be able to assess and develop care plans to meet the complex needs of patients with a variety of conditions, recognising own limitations and seeking advice when necessary. This will include continuously evaluating and acting on outcomes.
• To be able to initiate referrals to other health professional specialist services and agencies.
• To provide patients and relatives with information and education thus ensuring they have meaningful choices that promote dignity, independence, and quality of life.
• To ensure practice is supported by research, evidence-based practice, literature, and peer review.