Locum Consultant Paediatrician

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust; Worcester; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job description

This post is for a Locum Consultant Paediatrician based at the Worcestershire Royal Hospital. The post holder will have the majority of their duties based at the Worcestershire Royal Hospital but will be expected to undertake outpatient clinics in a variety of settings around the whole county, including Redditch, Evesham, Malvern, Kidderminster. The Maternity and Paediatric Services provided within Worcestershire have recently been reviewed through a joint process with NHS England and the three local Clinical Commissioning Groups. The model agreed sees all Inpatient Paediatric and Neonatal Services based at the Worcestershire Royal Hospital. All births will be at the Worcestershire Royal Hospital with the option of the CCGs commissioning a Midwifery Led Unit in Northeast Worcestershire in the future should they wish to do so. There are no inpatient Neonatal or Paediatric beds at the Alexandra Hospital. The Alexandra Hospital in Redditch will provide an adult only Emergency Department although some children will be seen in a co-located Minor Injuries Unit or General Practice Out of Hours Service.

REPORTING TO
Clinical Lead Director of Paediatrics

Main duties of the job
This post is for an average of 10 PA per week though this is negotiable with a minimum of 8 PA per week. The distribution of programmed activities will be similar to that of the other Consultant Paediatricians with regard to on call, outpatient activity and other aspects of Direct Clinical Care. The remaining PAs reflect supporting professional activities. These may include teaching, audit, research and CPD.

On-call at Worcestershire Royal Hospital is currently a hybrid 1:6 with some resident on-call duties with 12 consultants providing the service. Consultants work a nominated resident weekday evening (Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu) followed by non-resident overnight on-call once every 3 weeks. Weekend on-call duties will be 1:6 with one Consultant working the whole weekend and a second Consultant providing 2PA of support on both Saturday and Sunday.

There will be a PAU consultant working 9-5 each weekday, taking GP and ED referrals, seeing urgent outpatients and assisting with assessment and treatment of urgently referred patients. Other models of care may emerge to meet the evolving standards produced by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (Facing the Future Acute Paediatrics and Facing the Future Forward Together).

Please see attached job description for further information.

About us
Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester.

Our workforce is over 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Our objectives are simple:

1. Best services for local people
2. Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
3. Best use of resources
4. Best people

Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

Job description
Job responsibilities
A suitably experienced post-holder will be expected to provide a clinical service in the relevant specialty to patients of the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust and to General Practitioners.

The post-holder will be expected to provide a service to patients of the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, General Practitioners and to attend multi-disciplinary meetings. The successful candidate will be expected to work within multi-disciplinary teams in providing high quality clinical care. It is anticipated work will be undertaken on three sites and closer to the patients home. The Trust is seeking to extend services to GP surgeries, health centres etc and job plans may be revised in due course.

The post-holder will provide support to the A& E department and acute medicine to ensure timely appropriate care and patient flow through the hospital.

The post-holder will provide consultation and advisory service to clinical colleagues in the Trust and Primary Care.

The post-holder will attend cross county and cross site meetings.

The post-holder will collaborate with colleagues to deliver a high quality, timely service and to work towards meeting the Trusts and departmental objectives.

The post-holder will, if relevant, participate in the on call rota to ensure that both emergency and urgent services are provided out of normal hours, to be shared equally with Consultant colleagues in post.

The Trust would expect a consultant whilst undertaking on-call duties to attend the hospital site to review patients when clinically necessary. The consultant on call must be prepared to attend willingly whenever requested to do so by a member of their medical and nursing team.

The post-holder, whilst undertaking weekend on call duties, will attend the hospital to undertake patient reviews.

Person Specification
Management and administrative experience
Essential

• Ability to organise and prioritise workload effectively
• Ability to advise on efficient and smooth running of specialist service
• Ability to organise and manage outpatient priorities
• Ability to manage and lead the specialty firm and multi-disciplinary team
• Experience of audit management and conducting clinical audit

Desirable

• Ability to manage and lead specialist unit and working parties as appropriate
• Ability to use the evidence based and clinical audit to support decision making

Teaching experience
Essential

• Ability to teach clinical skills to medical, nursing staff and other disciplines
• Experience of teaching clinical skills to undergraduates and postgraduates

Desirable

• Ability to supervise postgraduate research

Experience
Essential

• Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining (UK) CCT in Paediatrics
• Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on range of problems both emergency and elective within specialty
• Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
• Expertise in sub-specialty

Desirable

• NICU SPIN

Research experience
Essential

• Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems
• An awareness of current specialty specific developments and initiative

Desirable

• Publications in relevant peer- reviewed journals in the last 5 years
• Evidence of having undertaken original research

Qualifications
Essential

• Full GMC Registration with a Licence to practise.
• Success in Intercollegiate Specialty Examination or overseas equivalent

Desirable

• Higher degree
• Entry on the GMC Specialist Register in Paediatrics (or expected within 6 months of interview date) via
• oCCT or CESR (CP)
• oCESR or
• oEuropean Community Rights

Other requirements
Essential

• An understanding of the current NHS environment, particularly in relation to reforms, initiatives and issues
• Able to meet the travel requirements of the job and return to the hospital within 30 minutes when on call
• Standard Clauses
• A Disclosures and Barring Service (DBS) check will be carried out where the position is eligible in accordance with the 2012 Protection of Freedom Act and the guidance issued by the DBS.

Personal attributes
Essential

• Ability to work in a team
• Enquiring, critical approach to work
• Ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GPs, nurses and other agencies
• Commitment to Continuing Medical Education

Desirable

• Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local regional or national levels

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