Locum Consultant Community Paediatrician in Islington

Locum Consultant Community Paediatrician in Islington

Whittington Health NHS Trust is seeking an 7 PA Consultant in Community Paediatrics for 6months, pending substantive recruitment.

We are looking for a developmental paediatrician to join our Islington Community Paediatrics Team at the Northern Health Centre, Upper Holloway, London. This post covers a variety of community paediatrics; doing regular developmental paediatrics including an MDT clinic for severe physical disabilities, contributing to the diagnosis of a variety of developmental disorders, covering and conducting clinics in special schools and participating on the Child Protection rota with the Camden community consultant team. It would be ideal if the applicant can cover the Named Dr role for Safeguarding, but this is not mandatory.

Islington has a team of Community Paediatricians, and the successful applicant will be working closely with the team at Northern Health Centre. There is some flexibility to accommodate special interests and opportunities exist for developing clinical interests.

Main duties of the job

Please see the full Job Description and the Person Specification for further details about the job role.

About us

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Job responsibilities

Duties of the post

Summary outline:

• 2. Neurodevelopmental clinics: 3 community clinics per month, one multi-disciplinary clinic for children with conditions significantly affecting their posture and movement who are not (yet) in special needs schools and one clinic a month in ADHD service working together with another consultant
• 3. ASD diagnostic clinic (1PA) to be part of the Social Communication Team and participate in the MDT diagnostic process.
• 4. CP second on call (0.25 PA) 2 hours per call, the CP on call is fortnightly on Fridays
• 5. SPA (1.25 PA) CPD, this includes departmental meetings, CP peer review, mandatory training and own appraisal
• 6. Lead for training of junior doctors and medical students (0.25PA)
• 7. Named doctor for safeguarding if this role is taken up, it is 2PA. There will then be less community clinic per month

Please see the attached job description for full details.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Full GMC Registration
• MB BS or equivalent
• MRCP/MRCPCH or equivalent
• CCT (or equivalent), or within 6 months of CT date, or entry on the Specialist Register of GMC for Paediatrics
• Evidence that the candidate is within 6 months of CCT date and is expected to achieve a CCT
• BSc in medical subject
• PhD, Md, MSc, DCH
• CCT in Paediatric Neurodisability

Clinical Experience and Skills

• Experience of working in a multidisciplinary Child Development team and ability to carry out comprehensive developmental assessments
• Competence in management of common problems in children with ADHD, Autism, epilepsy and physical neurodisability
• Minimum Level 3 Children Protection competence, ability to assess children when there are safeguarding concerns and experience of providing safeguarding supervision
• Competence in management of common general paediatric problems - acute and chronic
• Substantial clinical experience as a clinician in paediatric neurodisability, managing epilepsy, and would be able to manage children with complex health needs

Teaching

• Experience of Undergraduate and Postgraduate teaching
• Additional teaching qualifications

Team Working

• Ability to work as a member of a multidisciplinary team, seeking advice from, sharing experience with, and offering support to other team members
• Experience of working in an interagency team
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to interpret and communicate on a broad range of health information in a social and education context
• Strong leadership qualities including ability to build effective relationships, influence, and negotiate with others, political astuteness and sensitivity, ability to manage conflict of interest
• Able to analyse holistic health chronologies and provide a written comprehensive report detailing the implications of the information for the care experienced child's current and future health and wellbeing

Management ability

• Ability to undertake administrative tasks
• Ability to prioritise tasks
• Ability to supervise junior staff
• Completed recognised leadership course

Participation in Clinical Governance

• Record of completed audit and service improvement project
• Experience in NHS complaint handling Clinical incident reporting
• Experience in Clinical incident reporting
• Experience in Training in and experience of appraisal
• Experience in Risk management training
• An understanding of clinical governance and its application to the role of Named Doctor

Personal Skills

• Training in communication skills, counselling, educational supervision

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.

£109,725 to £145,478 a yearper annum (pro rata for part time)