Community Paediatric South Substantive Consultant

Community Paediatric South Substantive Consultant

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Main duties of the job

Oxford Children's Hospital, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford. An opportunity has risen for one less than full time Consultant posts in our department. This is a replacement post. The successful applicant will join a team of 10 Consultant Community Paediatricians. The post-holder's clinical core commitments will include Community Paediatrics/neurodisability assessments including secondary level assessment and management of children with developmental difficulties, special educational needs, and child protection medicals. The post holder will be responsible for providing Community Paediatric/Neurodisability care to children and families living in a defined area of Oxfordshire, and includes clinics within a special school. Clinical work will include a range of activities including clinical assessment, multidisciplinary assessments, supervising specialist registrar/speciality doctor and contributing to the departmental child protection rota. Appropriate administrative support will be provided. Our community paediatrics department has a dynamic and vibrant training programme with excellent links to the children's specialist services. In addition the applicant will be involved in teaching both under and post graduates students and training community Paediatric higher specialist trainees.

Working for our organisation

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

Many of our recruitment programmes use values based interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significance difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families.

Person specification Qualifications

• Full GMC with licence to practice
• MRCPCH, MRCP or equivalent
• CCT/CESR with Registration on GMC Specialist Register in Paediatrics or within 6 months of CCT at the time of interview
• CCT in Community Paediatrics or equivalent experience in Community Paediatrics (or within 6 months of CCT at time of interview)
• Trained to level 3 safeguarding / Child Protection

Experience

• Comprehensive training in Community Paediatrics including children safeguarding work. Must have held hospital appointments in Paediatrics at SHO/ST1 3 and registrar/ST4 8 level
• Evidence of ability to make independent decisions at Consultant level and to manage complex clinical problems.
• Experience and training in writing child protection reports, in providing advice about child protection cases and attending case conferences and court room experience
• Level of responsibility Evidence of ability to make independent decisions at Consultant level and to manage complex clinical problems. Locum Consultant Experience preferably in Community Paediatrics

Skills

• Leadership skills: Ability to lead a team of professionals
• Organisation and management skills: Effective administrative and time management skills. Management qualification. Knowledge of the organisation of the NHS and the Government's agenda for its modernisation.
• Communication and interpersonal skills: Good spoken and written English. Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills.
• Communication and interpersonal skills: Training or experience in difficult communications
• Teaching and training skills: Experience of formal and informal contributions to teaching and training. Education qualification Interest in teaching with portfolio of teaching and training achievements.
• Clinical governance experience: Evidence of effective and sustained contribution to clinical governance, clinical risk management and clinical audit activities. Evidence of service improvement
• Knowledge of the organisation of the NHS and the Government's agenda for its modernisation.
• Training or experience in difficult communications
• Interest in teaching with portfolio of teaching and training achievements
• Evidence of service improvement

other requirements

• Driving Licence and access to a car for travel

COVID 19

COVID 19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. While COVID 19 vaccination is not a condition of employment at this time, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks and so that we can support those who may be undecided about vaccination. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information at Oxfordshire County Council Website where you can also find out more about how to access vaccination. There is a current Government consultation underway which will determine whether some new starters may need to be vaccinated.

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Applicant will be subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) and Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and will need to provide Disclosure & Barring Service checks.

Contact Information

For further information please contact Dr Sarah Haden, Clinical Lead for Community Paediatrics, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, The John Radcliffe. Tel: . Email: .

Domestic / catering / portering services

Domestic, catering, portering and maintenance engineer services at the John Radcliffe Hospital are provided by Mitie.

Domestic, catering, portering and maintenance engineer services at the Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre are provided by G4S.

Maintenance engineer services at the John Radcliffe Hospital are provided by Equans.

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