This is an exciting opportunity to join Midlands Partnership University Foundation Trust as a valued Speciality Doctor, providing medical input into the Community Paediatric multidisciplinary team in the Children and Families Care Group.
The post is based across clinics including The Bridge, Stafford, Cannock, and Lichfield according to service need.
You will support a team-based multidisciplinary community paediatric service for children and young people who are vulnerable due to disability, developmental delay, neuro-developmental problems, disease, and/or disadvantage. The role involves working at various sites within the West team.
Your responsibilities include assessing, diagnosing, reviewing progress, and providing ongoing care for children on the caseload. This includes working in clinics and school settings as appropriate, conducting general community paediatric assessments for children with neuro-developmental problems, and managing investigations, diagnoses, and treatment plans. You will identify children's strengths and difficulties, coordinate care packages, support Early Help and Team Around the Child meetings, and manage cases involving multiple conditions.
You will join an experienced, creative, highly skilled, and professional multidisciplinary team committed to maintaining a seamless service delivery model for children and young people in south Staffordshire.
Additional duties include managing administrative tasks effectively, participating in Clinical Governance activities such as handling complaints, reporting incidents, conducting clinical audits, and fostering effective clinical practice.
You will support and supervise non-medical staff and students, collaborate with the medical adviser for adoption to provide medical advice for looked-after children and prospective adopters, and attend regional adoption panels.
You will ensure patients are fully informed about their medications, support them in making positive choices, and assess and manage risks regularly.
There are opportunities to expand your research interests and participate in service and clinical audits with support from a central audit department. The Trust has links to Keele University Medical School.
By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities, and in return, we will support your career development and progression. Benefits include:
* Supporting your career development and progression
* Excellent NHS Pension scheme
* Generous maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
* Options for flexible working
* Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
* Travel reimbursement for community visits
* Lease car options for >500 miles/year, fully insured and maintained
* Salary sacrifice car schemes
* Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2,000
* Free parking at trust sites
* Annual flu vaccination
* And more
We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organization, offering staff networks to support community building.
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