Join our warm, innovative Cambridgeshire Children’s Services team, where we are proud to deliver high quality, compassionate care to children, young people and families across the county.
We are seeking a committed Consultant Community Paediatrician to help shape and strengthen our thriving service.
You will provide specialist assessment and management for children with neurodevelopmental conditions (including ADHD and autism), long term disabilities, complex health needs, and safeguarding concerns. You’ll work closely with our experienced multidisciplinary teams—therapists, nurses, psychologists, and education partners—who are passionate about collaboration and child centred care.
This is an opportunity to influence service development, contribute to quality improvement, and support the training and supervision of junior colleagues within a friendly and forward thinking environment.
Essential Criteria
1. Full GMC registration with licence to practise
2. Inclusion on the specialist register (Paediatrics) or within 6 months of CCT
3. Strong clinical experience in community paediatrics
4. Expertise in neurodevelopmental assessment and safeguarding
5. Effective communication and multidisciplinary teamworking skills
6. Commitment to high quality, equitable care for children and families
If you’re motivated to make a tangible difference and keen to join a supportive team dedicated to improving outcomes for children in Cambridgeshire, we’d love to hear from you.
Responsibilities
* Assessment and management of complex physical disability; reasonable working knowledge of complex care management is expected.
* Supporting the children in care work in the region.
* Safeguarding – contribute to a regional safeguarding rota providing medical assessment for children with non-acute safeguarding concerns.
* Support referral meetings – consultant led.
* Support teaching and training of medical students, Community and Neurodisability trainees, educational and clinical supervision.
* Ongoing contribution to service development and service evaluation and improvement.
* Provide expert advice to other agencies where needed; maintain good local links with acute sector colleagues, CAMH, Education and Social care.
* Participate in relevant emergency preparedness processes for the team.
Job Purpose
This is a 10 PA post with Cambridgeshire Community Services (CCS).
Assessment and management of children with neurodevelopmental disorders including autism, ADHD and learning disability (either individually or as part of a multi‑disciplinary team).
Provide healthcare to children up to 19 years of age in a local SEND school; this includes medical advice to children related to their learning needs, multi‑disciplinary assessment and management of children with complex physical disability. This would include supporting transition plans for children within that provision and safeguarding support, and may include supporting advanced care plans and end‑of‑life support with other agencies.
This post is designed to support a pre‑existing team to support our community paediatric services for children in Cambridgeshire.
The post will predominantly cover neuro‑developmental clinics for pre‑school and school aged children as well as undertaking clinical care of children with neurodisability and supporting the child protection rota for non‑urgent child protection medicals.
The postholder may be asked to cover children in care medicals and training can be offered for this.
The post covers all of Cambridgeshire and we share services with Peterborough. Opportunities exist to develop expertise in specific areas within the post according to the applicant’s interests and experience.
Cambridgeshire Community Services (CCS) provides child health services to children in Cambridgeshire and is part of the Cambridge and Peterborough Integrated Care System.
We provide a range of services for children with neurodevelopmental difficulties and complex physical disability in community, acute and school‑based clinics across the county. We also provide a non‑urgent safeguarding rota which the successful candidate will support.
We already have well‑established MDT working and there are opportunities to develop special interests according to expertise.
Communication
The post holder will be expected to have excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
MDT Work
1. Community team – paediatricians, psychologists, and community nurses
2. Members of the extended team including Speech and Language Therapists, physiotherapy and occupational therapy
3. Community nurses (duplicated but kept for clarity)
4. Educational colleagues, SEND, SENCOs, Educational Psychologists
5. CAMH colleagues
6. Acute paediatric colleagues
7. Social services
People Management
* Maintain own professional development via annual appraisal.
* Teaching and supervision of Community Paediatrics to Paediatric Specialty Trainees alongside other centres in the Eastern Deanery; trainees from other allied health professions may also be attached to our team.
* Support good medical practice through clinical supervision, education and training, reviews of safety and quality, team working and clinical leadership.
Research & Development Activity
1. Encouraged to undertake research as part of clinical practice and CPD with support from the CCS Research Team.
2. Regular internal CPD activities for clinical staff and multi‑disciplinary training with colleagues from other professional groups and external agencies.
3. Active Community Paediatric clinical network across the east of England which meets twice yearly.
4. Collaborative links with Cambridge University Hospitals and CAMH; many research opportunities both clinically and educationally.
Clinical and Practice Governance
1. Maintain good medical practice; contribute to the development of patient safety, service improvement and training within the team.
2. Work within the clinical governance framework for CCS NHS Trust; participate in service improvement, quality assurance, clinical effectiveness and risk management activities as required.
3. Registered with GMC and responsible for maintaining registration and compliance with the revalidation process.
4. Time allocated within the job plan to support professional activities including CPD.
5. Participate in annual appraisal and job planning.
6. Maintain strict confidentiality in line with the Data Protection Act.
7. Comply with the Trust Information Governance and Information Security policies.
8. Adhere to the Trust risk assessment and risk management processes.
9. Adhere to infection control policies and procedures.
10. Undertake mandatory training and any other training relevant to the role as required by Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust.
11. Participation in audit cycles and service development as required.
12. Provide patients and their families/carers with information on standards they should expect from the team.
This advert closes on Sunday 5 Apr 2026.
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