Paediatric Consultant with Interest in Paediatric Emergency Medicine

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust; East Ham; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangements

Job summary

The Lister Hospital is seeking a substantive paediatric consultant with a special interest in paediatric emergency medicine. The role combines ED leadership with acute general paediatrics, including rapid access clinics and weekend on-call. A post-CCT PEM focus can be developed alongside.

Candidates should have GRID or equivalent PEM experience or be within six months of CCT. The post involves clinical governance, teaching, and active involvement in audits and research across paediatric

Qualifications

• Interest in PEM (GRID or equivalent), within 6 months of CCT at interview, or GMC confirmed eligibility for the Specialist Register
• MRCPCH or equivalent qualification
• APLS/EPALS provider (or equivalent) and valid BLS
• Level 3 safeguarding training and experience of safeguarding work

Responsibilities

• Clinical accountability for day-to-day management of the children's ED, in line with national standards
• Overview of the department, seeing and reviewing children
• Pivotal role in training emergency medicine trainees and nurses in paediatric emergency care
• Managerial responsibility for quality improvement and innovation in paediatric emergency medicine
• Establishing audit and research in paediatric emergency medicine locally and nationally
• Covering rapid access and general paediatric clinics
• Consultant service weeks (1:6) covering the inpatient ward or CAU
• Participating in a 1:12 consultant weekend on-call rota covering acute general paediatrics

Skills

PEM experience

Clinical governance

Teaching

Audit & QI

Education

MRCPCH or equivalent

APLS/EPALS provider and BLS

Job description

This substantive paediatric consultant post with a special interest in paediatric emergency medicine sits at the Lister Hospital, within acute general paediatrics. The holder runs rapid access and general clinics, covers inpatient ward or CAU weeks and works weekend on-call, while being accountable for the day-to-day running of the children's emergency department. The hybrid role splits time between emergency medicine and acute general paediatrics, and a post-CCT special interest can be developed alongside. Applicants need GRID or equivalent PEM experience, or to be within six months of CCT.

What the job involves

• Clinical accountability for day-to-day management of the children's ED, in line with national, RCPCH and RCEM standards, and a visible presence on the shop floor
• Overview of the department, seeing and reviewing children
• Pivotal role in training emergency medicine trainees and nurses in paediatric emergency care
• Managerial responsibility for quality improvement and innovation in paediatric emergency medicine
• Establishing audit and research in paediatric emergency medicine, locally and nationally
• Covering rapid access and general paediatric clinics
• Consultant service weeks (1:6) covering the inpatient ward or CAU
• Participating in a 1:12 consultant weekend on-call rota covering acute general paediatrics

What's required

Qualifications

• Interest in PEM (GRID or equivalent), within 6 months of CCT at interview, or GMC confirmed eligibility for the Specialist Register (Portfolio applicants must be on the register at application)
• MRCPCH or equivalent qualification
• Up to date APLS/EPALS provider (or equivalent) and valid BLS
• Level 3 safeguarding training and experience of safeguarding work

Registration & licences

• GMC registration

Experience

• Broad paediatric and PEM experience, including emergency procedures, day-to-day service organisation and acute childhood trauma
• Minimum of 1 year at registrar level in an accredited paediatric emergency unit
• Supervising undergraduates, doctors in training and other colleagues
• Accountable for full and independent expert diagnostic opinion

Skills & knowledge

• Clinical governance engagement, learning from errors, and appraisal and revalidation
• Situational awareness and good decision making
• Ability to teach clinical skills effectively
• Critical appraisal of published evidence, knowledge of audit and QI, and of the GMC Good Medical Practice domains

Other

• Engagement with equality, diversity and inclusion, and leading an inclusive culture
• Role modelling Trust values and understanding of the NHS Constitution
• Up to date and fit to practise, aware of own training needs

Nice to have

• APLS/EPALS/NLS instructor
• Postgraduate academic degree (or equivalent)
• Up to date ATLS provider (or equivalent)
• At least 6 months' experience in PICU
• Demonstrable experience as a locum consultant
• Leading on patient safety issues and achieving change in practice
• Published papers and original work in peer-reviewed journals
• Demonstrable experience of, and participation in, research

What's offered

• Flexible working requests considered formally, with a starting point of finding ways to support them