Overview
Applications for 1.0 wte Senior Clinical Fellow, Community Child Health. This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing team as part of our integrated child health service, serving one of the largest populations of children in the Wessex Region. HHFT also hosts the local special school nursing team and the children’s community nursing team and paediatric psychology service.
Responsibilities
* Contribute to the provision of community services by conducting clinics in the hospital/outreach settings: 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.
* The Community Paediatric department at Hampshire Hospitals has responsibility for a number of specific areas of community paediatric practice:
* 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.
* New patient clinics – with consultant supervision.
* Special school clinics.
* Down syndrome clinics (BNH supervision PM).
* Additional learning/support opportunities.
* Kennet CSA clinic – BNnH.
* Safeguarding.
* Adoption & Fostering.
* Joint Paediatric Neurodisability psychology.
* Joint Neurology Outreach clinics.
* Pilot Feeding clinics – complex and dysphagia.
* Psychology and psychiatry liaison work.
* Genetics clinics.
* Naomi house and palliative care.
For further information
Contact Dr Martha Wyles, Clinical Director of Child Health/Consultant Paediatrician: martha.wyles@hhft.nhs.uk
This advert closes on Monday 6 Oct 2025.
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