Locum Consultant in Community PaediatricsHomerton Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustThe post-holder will be fully accredited in General Paediatrics and/or Community Child Health. Excellent communication & liaison skills and the ability to work within a multidisciplinary team are essential. The department proactively promotes clinical governance, and the appointee should be able to demonstrate skills in audit, risk management & evidence-based guidelines. As a University hospital, there is a strong commitment to teaching medical students and junior doctors. The post holder is expected to play an active role in all undergraduate and postgraduate training activities.
The post will be based in the department of Community Paediatrics at Hackney Ark with clinical sessions undertaken at the Hackney Ark and other Community venues as required. There will be an average of 6.5 PA of direct clinical care and 1.5 PA allocated for supporting professional activities. As a senior employee of the Trust the post holder will work in close co-operation with and support other clinical, medical, professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality, safe health care to patients.
As a department we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This includes asking certain groups of staff to work more flexibly, for example the opportunity of holding remote clinics, which may allow working from home at times.
Main duties of the jobThe post will be based in the department of Community Paediatrics at Hackney Ark with clinical sessions undertaken at the Hackney Ark and other Community venues as required. There will be an average of 6.5 PA of direct clinical care and 1.5 PA allocated for supporting professional activities. As a senior employee of the Trust the post holder will work in close co-operation with and support other clinical, medical, professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality, safe health care to patients.
About usHomerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a medium sized local hospital providing acute and community health services for Hackney, The City and surrounding communities and also provides a range of specialist services for a much wider population.
We provide general hospital and community services to Hackney and the City of London, and specialist care in obstetrics, neonatology, fetal medicine, fertility, bariatric surgery and neuro rehabilitation across east London and beyond.
As a foundation trust, Homerton has greater freedom from the Department of Health to enable it to be more responsive to local healthcare needs and have greater accountability to the patients and public it serves.
Job responsibilitiesMain Responsibilities: Clinical Responsibilities 1. Autism Assessment
Participate and lead on autism assessments in Hackney Ark Complex Communication Clinics (children under 5 years old).2. Specific responsibility for Community Paediatrics in Patch Neurodevelopmental Clinic
Provision of a weekly multidisciplinary neurodevelopment clinic for the assessment and management of children with developmental delays and disabilities at the Hackney Ark
Support to HVs, GPs, schools and nurseries
Attendance at Multi-agency Referral weekly meeting (MARS)
3. Child Protection
Taking an active role, together with colleagues within the Trust, in seeing children with child protection concerns.This includes all aspects of child abuse, neglect and fabricated illness.Person SpecificationQualificationsMBBS or equivalentMRCPCH or equivalentOn GMC Specialist Register with full GMC registrationCCT / CESR Paediatrics (or specialty trainee eligible for CCT within 6 months of interview date - the applicant should be able to produce evidence that he/she is within 6 months of CCT date and is expected to achieve a CCT)Subspecialty recognition in community paediatrics and/or neurodisabilityManagement courseExperienceHigher Specialist training in Community Child Health, Neurodisability or including experience in the management of children with disabilitiesExperience in working with children of school age with a disabilityDefinitive Training &/or experience in Child ProtectionUp to date with Level 3 Child ProtectionExperience in evidence basedKnowledge & ExpertiseAbility to work on own initiative unsupervised and make decisions.Excellent communication skills (written & oral) and ability to develop good working relationshipsDemonstrated ability to manage time effectively.Team-player with experience of multidisciplinary working & liaison across organisation boundaries.Special knowledge relevant to community paediatrics in an inner city area of high deprivationSpecific experience in tone management, botox and or epilepsyAccreditation in standardised developmental assessment tool e.g. GriffithsParticipation in quality improvement or clinical auditUndergraduate and Postgraduate teaching/training skillsInsight into research methods and evaluationPublicationsExperience of Educational Supervision, Teaching Skills, Course such as Training the TrainersManagementUnderstanding of management issues and service planningDemonstrated ability to manage a service, team or projectFormal management trainingPersonal AttributesAble to travel across Hackney in order to meet the requirements of the postGood organisational skillsCommitment to continuingExperience of multicultural & ethnic communitiesDisclosure and Barring Service CheckThis 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.
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Joint Clinical Lead & Consultant Comm Paeds
£105,504 to £139,882 a yearper annum pro rata
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