Job summary Community Paediatrics Consultant Women and Children Care Division Consultant £105,504 - £139,882 per annum/pro rata We are recruiting for a Community Paediatrics Consultantwho shares our ambition and vision to deliver theBest of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
Main duties of the job The Swale Community Paediatrics Service manages children with a range of clinical presentations which include: Neurodevelopmental and neurodisability Behavioural disorders including; Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and ADHD This a 10 PA role where the successful applicant will play a crucial role in leading the team to continue to deliver a high standard of care as well as providing strategic lead in driving service improvement in the context of recent changes to commissioning landscape.
The latter promises to improve the integration of patient care across providers and allied organisation in the domain of community child health.
The post holder will be accountable to the Clinical Director for the Children and Young People Care Group.
Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together.
It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
About us Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved.
Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.
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We aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.
All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.
We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under - represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.
All staff at Medway comply the Trust's and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board's policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.
Job description Job responsibilities Key responsibilities: to provide Community paediatric care in out-patient services (without need for out of hours cover.
)to provide Community Paediatric care as part of a multidisciplinary teamby arrangement to cover colleagues during periods of annual and study leaveadministrative duties include those associated with the care of the patients and the running of the clinical departmenthelp in the supervision and teaching of nursing and junior medical staffparticipate actively in quality improvement activity/ clinical audit and implement its resultsthe post-holder will undertake, exceptionally, to perform additional duties in emergency and unforeseen circumstances as are essential for continuity of patient careabiding by the clinical and corporation governance policies of the Trust Person Specification Qualifications Essential MRCPCH or equivalent.
Full GMC registration.
On the GMC specialist register or within 6 months of CCT or CESR-CP in Paediatrics.
Desirable Higher degree (Ms, MD, PhD) DCH, MBA or any other relevant diplomas.
CCT or equivalent of subspeciality in Community Child Health Experience Essential Achieved competencies relating to General Paediatric Training.
Achieved competencies equivalent to higher specialist Peadiatric Training including 3 years in Community child health.
Desirable Experinece in other areas realting to community child health including: Gp, child mental health, public health, Peadiatric neurology or neurodisability, eneuresis management and sleep disorders.
Knowledge and skills Essential Work unsupervised and make descisions Skilled in working with multidisciplinary teams.
Achieve level 3 competencies in community child health.
Desirable Lead multidisciplinary teams.