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Job overview
Consultant Paediatrician
(with a special interest in Neurodisability)
Joint Post – NELFT & Great Ormond Street Hospital
CONTRACT: 10 Programmed Activities (10 PAs) Flexible working available
BASE: 79 Axe Street, Barking, Essex IG11 7LZ
This post is joint Consultant Paediatrician position in the Barking and Dagenham Community Team, based at 79 Axe Street, Barking, IG11 7LZ and Neuro disability Team at Great Ormond Street Hospital.
This is a full-time post of 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) with Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs).
Main duties of the job
This is a newly created post, following investment by the place based ICB to support the increased demand on Community Paediatric services. A lot of transformation has taken place already and continues to take place in Barking and Dagenham community babies, children, and young people services. This post is currently vacant, and we wish to recruit substantively to this post as soon as possible.
This joint Consultant Paediatrician post for Children & Young People will enable the transfer of specialist skills in Neurodisability (movement disorder), streamline Neurodisability pathways across both organizations, support recruitment, and deliver training to existing and new staff members. This initiative aligns with the NHS Long Term Plan to bring healthcare closer to the communities we serve.
There is no on call requirement at night, although the post holder will participate in a daytime on-call rota 9am - 5pm to deliver child protection medical examinations.
Working for our organisation
The expectation of the post holder will be to support their team, department and organisation to follow the Trust’s Values in their day-to-day work.
●We are kind
●We are respectful
●We work with our communities
GOSH values are also expected:
·Always welcoming
·Always helpful
·Always expert
·Always one team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful candidate will work as part of a fully integrated multidisciplinary specialist team providing care to children and young people with health needs, across Barking & Dagenham. The successful applicant will also become part of a large (30+ community paediatricians), dynamic, community paediatric team, across the whole of North East London Foundation Trust.
The successful candidate will provide senior medical support to the team, and direct input on clinical cases. The consultant will be expected to provide guidance and supervision to the team, work directly with babies, children, and young people (and their families), and liaise as appropriate with other external health providers, and acute hospitals.
This post provides unique opportunity for the post holder to further develop links already established with the Tertiary and local acute trusts, in order to deliver specialist services within the community. There are existing close links with the acute paediatric department at King George Hospital (Ilford) and Queens Hospital (Romford) alongside Tertiary colleagues at the Royal London and Great Ormond Street Hospital.
The postholder will spend one day / week (2PAs) with the Movement Disorder Service at GOSH (part of the Wolfson Neurodisability Service) joining a morning clinic and then participating in educational activities/ administration in the afternoon. We hope that through this, local networks can be strengthened and delivery of care enhanced.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. •MRCPCH by examination or equivalent.
2. •Full GMC registration
3. •On the GMC’s Specialist Register or within six months of CCT at time of scheduled interview.
4. •CCT/CCST or equivalent accreditation in Community Paediatrics or equivalent training and experience
Clinical Experience and Training
Essential criteria
5. •At least 2 years General Professional Training in paediatrics.
6. •3 years Higher Specialist Training, including 2 years in Community Paediatrics, or is able to demonstrate having achieved the competencies equivalent to the Highest Specialist Paediatric Training
7. •Training in Neurodisability
8. •Valid Level 3 Safeguarding Training.
9. •Valid BLS Training
Specific Clinical Skills:
Essential criteria
10. •Experience of neuro-disability and neurodevelopmental Paediatrics.
11. •Experience in safeguarding/children in care where there are concerns of emotional, physical abuse, and neglect.
12. •Approved training in Child Protection / Safeguarding at Level 3 of the Intercollegiate guidelines.
13. •Level 3 competencies in the Intercollegiate guidelines Knowledge, skills, and competences for Children in care
14. •Working in a multi-disciplinary team and with multi-agency partners
15. •Working with families living with significant levels of deprivation and understanding of working in a multicultural community
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:
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. 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.
19. 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.