Locum Consultant Community Paediatrician

EAST LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is looking for a Locum Consultant to join their Community Paediatric team in Newham. The role involves clinical activities, teaching medical students, and contributing to departmental management. Ideal candidates will have a strong dedication to improving the health of children and young people, with a focus on collaborative practice and continuous improvement. This position offers a supportive environment dedicated to professional development and quality care.

Qualifications

• Experienced in clinical supervision and management.
• Passion for teaching and departmental contributions.
• Strong commitment to quality improvement and audit.
• Ability to work in a multidisciplinary environment.

Responsibilities

• Conduct consultant clinics and manage administrative tasks.
• Provide clinical triage and clinical supervision.
• Contribute to departmental teaching, focusing on community child health.
• Engage in clinical governance and pathway leadership.

Job description

Overview

We are looking to recruit a Locum Consultant to our Community Paediatric team in Newham for 2025. This is an excellent opportunity to join a dynamic team within a multidisciplinary Community Child Health service in East London.

Responsibilities

• Clinical activities: Consultant clinics and related administrative work; clinical triage of referrals; clinical supervision as "Consultant of the Day" including Child protection; MDT clinical discussions or meetings; any clinical patient-related meetings.
• Teaching: contribute to departmental teaching; contribute to teaching of medical students particularly in relation to community child health services.
• Management and leadership: clinical supervision; clinical governance; management supervision; pathway leadership.
• Audit, quality improvement and service development.

Working for our organisation

East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT) is recognised as a centre of excellence for innovation and improvement, and the postholder would be working within Specialist Children and Young People’s Services (SCYPS). We are committed to improving the health and well-being of babies, children and young people in Newham and North East London. Partnership, quality improvement and evidence-based research and practice remains at the heart of our service delivery so that we can provide the best possible care, and ensure our patients achieve the best possible outcomes.

ELFT has been rated as "Outstanding" following CQC inspections in 2016, 2018 and again in 2021. The Trust is committed to pursuing equity, patient participation and staff engagement. Making the Trust an excellent place to work is one of our key priorities. Our staff are our most prized asset and we are committed to improving the working lives of our staff across all services and teams. We strongly believe in supporting all staff to develop and grow, and have a strong professional development and lifelong learning ethos, linked to a commitment to clinical supervision and appraisal processes.

ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people\'s lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive. We are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations. Quality Improvement is a key part of our work to improve our services and refine how we do things. We have a global reputation for our quality improvement work and we don’t stand still. We offer a fantastic opportunity for our staff to learn, lead and contribute towards improving our services.

We launched our Five Year Strategy in April 2018, which identified four main strategic outcomes to improve: population health outcomes, experience of care, staff experience and value. This complements the NHS Long Term Strategy and sets out our direction of travel.

Our Community: We provide a wide range of community health and mental health inpatient services to children, young people, adults of working age, and older adults in The City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire and Luton. We also provide psychological therapy services to the London Borough of Richmond, and provide Forensic services to the whole of North East London. We provide services in urban and rural settings, sometimes in our inpatient units, but mostly in the community close to where people live.

Aiming High: We were rated \\"Outstanding\\" by the CQC in 2016, and continued to be rated \\"Outstanding\\" in 2018 and 2021. We were named in the HSJ\'s Top 10 best places to work in healthcare and were voted Provider Trust of the Year in 2018.

Staff and Service Users United: We strive to ensure that staff feel valued by the Trust and are pivotal in delivering better outcomes for our patients. Our aspiration is to help make ELFT the best place to work. This Trust is clinician-led and provides a high level of clinical expertise throughout its services. We pride ourselves on our service user involvement. A service user will be on your assessment centre and interview panel if you are invited to meet us.

We especially welcome people with lived experience of health difficulties, with insight and understanding of different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles in our population, as we believe that this will equip staff to deliver a high standard of care to our service users and patients.

Diversity: ELFT is committed to being a diverse organisation and our workforce reflects the population and communities we serve. We believe that having colleagues with a range of backgrounds and life experiences enriches and adds value to our outcomes. We are committed to fair inclusive practices and offer staff networks to support, nurture and celebrate our valued staff in the workplace.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we welcome discussions about flexible working arrangements, including job share, part time or other flexible patterns.