At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people's age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Increasing our diversity and supporting our organization to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.
We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.
These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030. By joining us now you'll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future - a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust.
interest in epilepsy to join the friendly paediatric team at Airedale.
The department offers a supportive and encouraging environment for professional development and a satisfying work life balance.
The role involves covering acute shifts, covering the children's ward, assessment unit and the neonatal unit, with elective work covering outpatient epilepsy and neurology alongside an established consultant and community consultants.
Main duties of the job
Epilepsy patients are shared between the community paediatricians (who look after the patients who also have complex neurodisability) and the paediatrician with expertise in epilepsy. Patients are also supported by an epilepsy specialist nurse. We have facilities for most neurological investigations you would expect in a DGH, including standard, sleep and 24-hour ambulatory EEG, CT and MRI. We use the V create video service to aide in diagnosis. We participate in the epilepsy 12 national audit.
There are also headache clinics and there is an opportunity to develop further neurology clinics if desired by the successful candidate. Our tertiary centre for neurology referrals and support is Leeds.
Airedale has visiting specialists from the local teaching hospital in Leeds, including cardiology, endocrinology, nephrology, rheumatology and various paediatric surgical specialities. There is also an established diabetes and allergy service, and we are a shared care site for paediatric oncology.
The paediatric rota is a 1 in 10. Airedale has a paediatrician of the week structure. We split the cover over the weekend between the paediatrician of the week and another consultant, please see the attached example timetable on page 5.
Working for our organisation
We are always looking for enterprising and innovative approaches to the way we provide our services. We are a national centre for telemedicine and introduced telehealth to the UK offender healthcare sector and also provide a similar service to patients in their care homes. Community matters to us and we are supported by 400 dedicated volunteers and have strong links with Leeds Medical School, Bradford University, Craven College and Leeds City College to ensure we inspire the workforce of the future.
We want to attract staff who embrace our "Right Care" behaviours of compassion, a commitment to quality of care and working together for patients - we want to make this part of our DNA., If you are offered a position which requires you to undertake a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check, Airedale NHS Foundation Trust will administer the DBS check on your behalf and will recover the cost (Enhanced £54.40, Standard or Basic £26.40) from your first full months salary. This is a condition of your employment.
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You are encouraged to participate in the DBS Update Service and pay the £16 cost per year.
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