Consultant Community Paediatrician
The closing date is 25 March 2026
This is a 5 PA post within the Community Paediatric team at UHB NHS Foundation Trust. The team is commissioned to provide community paediatric services for Solihull GP registrant population. This post arises due to increasing clinical demand and changes to work plan.
You will be expected to undertake one specialist community paediatric clinic every week and one special school clinic once in 2 weeks with appropriate time available for administration and liaison. This post also has safeguarding cover as 1 in 4 and that is done in a newly refurbished suite in Solihull hospital and is supported by peer review.
Our community paediatrics is a small team but delivers a good service. We are innovative and have mutual respect and have close links with our acute services and CAMHS team to ensure we deliver holistic care.
Main duties of the job
* Provide 1 Community Paediatric clinic, and 1 special school clinic every other week with allocated administration time
* Be competent to carry out comprehensive paediatric health and developmental and ADHD assessments
* Liaise as appropriate with schools, allied health professionals and other agencies
* Provide support and reports for Special education needs and disability team for the patients
* Complete Child safeguarding medical examinations and provide reports/attendance to conference/meetings/court as required
* Risk and clinical governance lead for the department and maintaining professional competence
* Participate in clinical governance activities including audits, and other supporting activities as directed by the needs of the service
* Respond to and engage with any complaints or investigations within the department
* Attend statutory, essential and mandatory training
* Attend and keep up to date with child safeguarding training as per Trust requirements
About us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. We want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Job responsibilities
For more information about this exciting opportunity, please see attached job description for more information.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* MBBS or equivalent
* Specialist Registrar or equivalent (minimum)
* Enhanced DBS check
* MRCPCH or equivalent
Experience
* Evidence of involvement, completion and implementing change in practice as a result of audit or quality improvement initiative
* Understands patient care and vulnerability and risk associated with it in Community Paediatrics
* 3 years of Post graduate experience in Paediatrics
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
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