Senior Clinical Fellow in Community Paediatrics

Hampshire Hospitals Nhs Foundation Trust; Basingstoke; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

Contribute to the provision of community services by conducting clinics in the hospital/outreach settings:

Responsibilities

• Ensure continuity of care for patients by liaison with community-paediatric consultants
• Demonstrate a commitment to continued professional development in community child health
• Engage in clinical governance activity through the clinical fora, Developmental assessment - all paediatricians provide developmental, educational and behavioural assessments, generally in a clinic setting with the flexibility to visit pre-school settings and schools if required. Pre-school/ school observation of the child may be carried out as part of this assessment.
• Complex neuro-disability - paediatricians provide clinic-based follow up for children with cerebral palsy, neuro-muscular disease, and genetic syndromes, as well as multi-disability working via Team around the Child meetings and liaison with allied professionals.
• Preschool Autism assessments (including ADOS) are undertaken by all of the Community Paediatric Consultants
• The Community Paediatric department at Hampshire Hospitals has responsibility for a number of specific areas of community paediatric practice.