Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for five consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.
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Job overview
The North East London NHS Foundation Trust is looking for a dynamic, experienced and enthusiastic Consultant Community Paediatrician for Havering, to join a team of 3 other Consultant Community Paediatricians working within an integrated specialist children’s service in a progressive Community Paediatric department,
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate would be expected to contribute to Neuro-disability role along with the doing the looked after children post will be supported by the Named doctor for safeguarding, clinical lead for Community Paediatrics and Associate Medical director.
Havering specialist community paediatric services are based at The Acorn centre, 306 London road Romford RM7 9NH, and part of an integrated multi-disciplinary team housing Community paediatricians, Children and Adolescent Mental Health Team, Specialist Neurodisability Nursing Team, Paediatric therapists, clinical Psychologist, Assistant psychologist and Health care assistant .
Working for our organisation
NELFT is proud to be an agile working Trust with excellent IT support enabling employees including clinicians to work flexibly providing a family friendly work culture. Post Holder will be provided with an Agile working device and will have access to Medical Secretary/PA based at The Acorn centre, 306 London road Romford RM7 9NH .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The community paediatric Medical team consists of total 4 Consultant Paediatricians. In addition, the service is supported by 2 full time specialty trainees (level 2&3). In addition to the lead roles of named doctor, the type of Neurodisability clinics will be allocated to suit the competencies and interests of the post holder whilst meeting the needs of the service.
There is no out-of-hours on-call commitment with this post. The post holder will contribute to the daytime weekly child protection rota. This would include assessment of children referred for suspected child abuse and supervision of trainees/colleagues.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. MRCP, MRCPCH or equivalent
2. CCT in CCH, or demonstrate Level 3 competencies in all areas of CCH
Experience
Essential criteria
3. 5 years higher specialist training including 3 years Community Paediatrics
4. At least 2 years General Professional Training in paediatrics
5. 5 years Higher Specialist Training, including 3 years in Community Paediatrics
Benefits
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:
6. A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
7. A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
8. Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
9. Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.