Consultant Community Paediatrician

Consultant Community Paediatrician

The closing date is 23 September 2025

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Community Paediatric service hosted by Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and be part of the dynamic team providing the service to meet rising demand across the specialist teams. The successful candidate will work across Children Looked After service and Neurodevelopment and Neurodisability service.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be clinically competent in meeting the health needs of Children Looked After, including those undergoing adoption as appropriate to role. The post holder will also be expected to be part of the clinical team who contribute as Medical advisor to the Adoption Panel.

The post holder should be competent in providing holistic support to children with complex disability including linking multidisciplinary team.

The service does not contribute to Autism and ADHD assessments as the Neurodiversity assessment and support is hosted by an alternative provider locally (Humber Mental Health Foundation Trust).

There will be no on call commitments with this role.

About us

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.

Job responsibilities

For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification Professional Registration

• Full Registration with the GMC
• GMC Specialist Registration (or expected inclusion within 6 months) Note - CESR applicants must be on the Specialist Register at the point of application

Qualifications and Training

• Valid APLS certificate
• Valid level3 safeguarding training
• Diploma in neurodisability

Clinical Experience

• Is able to demonstrate having achieved the competencies equivalent to the higher specialist paediatric training in Community paediatrics
• Able to undertake statutory Children Looked After/adoption health assessments, including those with complex healthcare needs and provide written reports
• Be able to provide advice to local authority adoption and fostering panels
• Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
• Experience of tone management in children with Cerebral palsy

Management and Administration Experience

• Ability to manage and lead medical teams
• Ability to lead on smooth and efficient running of the unit
• Ability to organise, prioritise and manage high intensity workload
• Ability to develop, present and operationalise coherent ideas for service development/delivery

Teaching, Audit and Research

• Experience of supervising junior medical staff
• Commitment to formal and informal teaching of medical staff, AHPs and medical students
• Evidence of participation in audit
• Ability to extrapolate clinical research evidence to care for individual patients
• Evidence of having conducted a practice-changing audit
• Experience of teaching/training in clinical courses e.g., APLS Instructor, ALERT Instructor
• Original peer-reviewed research publications

Personal Attributes

• Ability to work flexibly in a changing health service
• Excellent manner with patients, being sensitive to their needs and fears
• Ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GPs, Nurses and other health professionals and flex style as appropriate
• Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional and national levels
• Ability to communicate effectively with external agencies and other disciplines

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.

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust