Job overview
Whittington Health NHS Trust is seeking an 7 PA Consultant in Community Paediatrics for 6months, pending substantive recruitment.
We are looking for a developmental paediatrician to join our Islington Community Paediatrics Team at the Northern Health Centre, Upper Holloway, London. This post covers a variety of community paediatrics; doing regular developmental paediatrics including an MDT clinic for severe physical disabilities, contributing to the diagnosis of a variety of developmental disorders, covering and conducting clinics in special schools and participating on the Child Protection rota with the Camden community consultant team. It would be ideal if the applicant can cover the Named Dr role for Safeguarding, but this is not mandatory.
Islington has a team of Community Paediatricians, and the successful applicant will be working closely with the team at Northern Health Centre. There is some flexibility to accommodate special interests and opportunities exist for developing clinical interests.
Main duties of the job
Please see the full Job Description and the Person Specification for further details about the job role.
Working for our organisation
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Duties of the post
Summary outline:
1.Special School clinics 1 per week
2.Neurodevelopmental clinics 3 community clinics per month, one multi-disciplinary clinic for children with conditions significantly affecting their posture and movement who are not (yet) in special needs schools and one clinic a month in ADHD service working together with another consultant
3.ASD diagnostic clinic (1PA)– to be part of the Social Communication Team and participate in the MDT diagnostic process.
4.CP second on call (0.25 PA) 2 hours per call, the CP on call is fortnightly on Fridays
5.SPA (1.25 PA) CPD, this includes departmental meetings, CP peer review, mandatory training and own appraisal
6.Lead for training of junior doctors and medical students (0.25PA)
7.Named doctor for safeguarding – if this role is taken up, it is 2PA. There will then be less community clinic per month
Please see the attached job description for full details.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Full GMC Registration
2. MB BS or equivalent
3. MRCP/MRCPCH or equivalent
4. CCT (or equivalent), or within 6 months of CT date, or entry on the Specialist Register of GMC for Paediatrics
5. Evidence that the candidate is within 6 months of CCT date and is expected to achieve a CCT
Desirable criteria
6. BSc in medical subject
7. PhD, Md, MSc, DCH
8. CCT in Paediatric Neurodisability
Clinical Experience and Skills
Essential criteria
9. Experience of working in a multidisciplinary Child Development team and ability to carry out comprehensive developmental assessments
10. Competence in management of common problems in children with ADHD, Autism, epilepsy and physical neurodisability
11. Minimum Level 3 Children Protection competence, ability to assess children when there are safeguarding concerns and experience of providing safeguarding supervision
12. Competence in management of common general paediatric problems – acute and chronic
Desirable criteria
13. Substantial clinical experience as a clinician in paediatric neurodisability, manging epilepsy, and would be able to manage children with complex health needs
Teaching
Essential criteria
14. Experience of Undergraduate and Postgraduate teaching
Desirable criteria
15. Additional teaching qualifications
Team Working
Essential criteria
16. Ability to work as a member of a multidisciplinary team, seeking advice from, sharing experience with, and offering support to other team members
Desirable criteria
17. Experience of working in an interagency team
Communication skills
Essential criteria
18. Excellent verbal and written communication skills
19. Ability to interpret and communicate on a broad range of health information in a social and education context
20. Strong leadership qualities including ability to build effective relationships, influence, and negotiate with others, political astuteness and sensitivity, ability to manage conflict of interest
Desirable criteria
21. Able to analyse holistic health chronologies and provide a written comprehensive report detailing the implications of the information for the care experienced child’s current and future health and wellbeing
Management ability
Essential criteria
22. Ability to undertake administrative tasks
23. Ability to prioritise tasks
24. Ability to supervise junior staff
Desirable criteria
25. Completed recognised leadership course
Participation in Clinical Governance
Essential criteria
26. Record of completed audit and service improvement project
Desirable criteria
27. Experience in NHS complaint handling Clinical incident reporting
28. Experience in Clinical incident reporting
29. Experience in Training in and experience of appraisal
30. Experience in Risk management training
31. An understanding of clinical governance and its application to the role of Named Doctor
Personal Skills
Desirable criteria
32. Training in communication skills, counselling, educational supervision
SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS
To comply with the Trust’s Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:
33. Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
34. Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
35. Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
36. Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
37. Participate in required training and supervision.
38. Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct
Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.