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Job overview
Consultant Community Paediatrician for BHR Neurodevelopmental team (Barking & Dagenham, Havering & Redbridge) – Fixed Term 2 Year
Base: Acorn centre, Havering,
The post is for 10 sessions Consultant Paediatrician in the BHR Neurodevelopmental service. The post holder will be a GMC registered clinician responsible for patients allocated to them and will assess, manage, plan, and deliver evidenced based care, including being professionally and legally accountable
Main duties of the job
The post holder will support with clinical and operational leadership as part of a newly established Neurodevelopmental service for children and will support their peers and team leader whilst being an effective team member and working on their own initiative. They will supervise junior colleagues including provision of teaching and training. They will have a commitment to collaborative working and actively supporting and liaising with other health and social care professionals and agencies.
The post holder will contribute as the Consultant Paediatrician in Havering for the BHR Neurodevelopmental service and will work alongside the team of substantive Paediatric and CAMHS consultants. Part of the post-holders’ duties will include service development, service evaluation and applied research.
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
Main responsibilities:
1.To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others workload in the day-to-day allocation of work.
2.To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them, particularly administration of medicine and moving and handling.
3.To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.
4.To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing, and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust register.
5.The post holder will support the development of the ASD/ADHD service, working alongside the multidisciplinary specialist team. They will contribute towards assessment and relevant investigations and supervising MDT colleagues. They will produce reports to contribute to statutory work including EHC plans.
6.Leverage opportunities to develop the integrated multidisciplinary Neurodevelopmental service across BHR
7.Provide a high quality, accessible, timely, efficient, effective, comprehensive and specialist Neurodevelopmental service for children and and young people, their carers/parents and families.
8.Provide and/or support the provision of evidence-based assessment and clinical management for service users. This will include providing highly specialist assessment and contributing to multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment of children and young people referred to the ASD service.
Person specification
GMC
Essential criteria
1. Full GMC registration with a licence to practice
Qualifications
Essential criteria
2. CCT or equivalent
Specialist Register
Essential criteria
3. Inclusion in, or eligibility for inclusion in the Specialist Register or within 6 months of obtaining CCST
Experience
Essential criteria
4. At least 2 years’ experience in Community Child Health.
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:
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.