Community Paediatric Consultant - West Oxfordshire & Autism Lead

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The closing date is 08 October 2025

An opportunity has arisen for one less than full time (7PA) Substantive Consultant post in our department. This is a replacement post. The successful applicants 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 West 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. The consultant will be the lead for the department's multidisciplinary assessment process for children with suspected neurodevelopmental disorders and particularly complex needs. This post involves supporting the quarterly transition clinic together with the medical team at the Oxford Centre for Enablement, for children with severe physical disabilities moving from paediatric to adult care.

Main duties of the job

The postholder's duties will be based at Deer Park Medical Center in Witney and the John Radcliffe Hospital but it is a condition of the appointment that the postholder will be willing to work in any of the Trust's locations, throughout the county, and to attend meetings with Social Services Departments and other partner agencies.

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Clinical

The post-holder's commitments will include routine Community Paediatrics/Neurodisability assessments including secondary level review and management of children with developmental difficulties, special educational needs, overseeing and monitoring multidisciplinary assessment processes and child protection assessments. The post holder will provide community/neurodisability care for a patch including one 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. The post involves supporting the quarterly transition clinic together with the medical team at the Oxford Centre for Enablement, for children with severe physical disabilities moving from paediatric to adult care. The role also involves a leadership role in the department's multidisciplinary assessment process for children with suspected neurodevelopmental disorders and particularly complex needs.

About us

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.

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Job responsibilities

An indicative timetable and Job Plan is outlined below. Working days can vary based upon the service requirements and with mutual agreement with the service lead. The final Job Plan for the post will be agreed with the clinical director upon appointment and will be subject to renegotiation at least annually.

Day

Time

Location

Work

Categorisation

No. of PAs

Monday

9.00- 13.00

13.00-17.00

Tuesday

9.00-13.00

Witney

Child Development clinic

DCC

1

13.00-17.00

Witney

Clinical admin

DCC

1

9.00-13.00

MDA assessments/ Special school clinic (monthly)

Transition clinic (quarterly)

DCC

1

13 00

CHOX

CPD, teaching HST, journal club, training and audit, peer review, Directorate grand rounds, Educational supervision, teaching medical students, examining, ARCP panel work, CSU Consultant meeting

SPA

1

Thursday

9.00-13.00

CHOX

Clinical admin (for special school clinic/MDA)

DCC

1

13.00-15.00

CHOX

MDA lead role

DCC

0.5

15.00-17.00

CHOX

Educational supervision and CPD

SPA

0.5

Friday

9.00-17.00

CHOX

CP on call

(alternated weeks)

Other days off

DCC

1

Sunday

Additional agreed activity to be worked flexibly

0

Predictable emergency on-call work

Direct clinical care

0

Unpredictable emergency on-call work

Variable

On-site, at home on the telephone and travelling to and from site

Direct clinical care

0

TOTAL PAs

7.5

Person Specification Qualifications

• Full GMC with licence to practice
• Professional qualifications - 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

• Work 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 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
• Experience and training in writing child protection reports, in providing advice about child protection cases and attending case conferences and court room experience
• 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.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
• Audit experience - Experience of conducting clinical audits
• 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

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.

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