Locum Consultant Paediatrician

Main area Paediatrics Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant Contract Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity Cover - From December 2025 (9-12 Months Hours

• Full time
• Job share
• Flexible working

40 hours per week (10 PAs) Job ref 434-WANDC-17 Site Stoke Mandeville Hospital Town Aylesbury Salary £109,725 - £145,478 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 16/11/:59

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Job overview This is a full time (10 PA) locum post. It will be based at across sites with clinics at both Stoke Mandeville and Wycombe Hospitals. Job share would be considered, 5 PAs per candidate

The Paediatric department has been successful in getting approval to expand their consultant presence by new consultants to meet the future workload to deliver safe high quality care to all children in Buckinghamshire with a particular focus on our trust care values.

We are seeking a keen, dynamic general paediatrician with a special interest that will compliment the current team

The post holder will carry out both general paediatric and neonatal duties and will participate in the overnight on-call consultant rota . There will also be weekend evening " twilight" shifts in the Paediatric ED to support the middle grades and help protect capacity.

Main duties of the job The successful candidate will join a team of consultants and will undertake inpatient and outpatient work in neonates and general paediatrics including inpatients and children admitted to the observation ward. In these areas we have attending weeks. On call activities on a pro rata basis. In addition to the general paediatrics this post holder will also have specialist clinics in their subspeciality .

There will be 3 clinics every week across both hospitals ensuring local access for patients .There will be an opportunity depending on the specialist interest of the candidate to organise specialist clinics and develop a service they feel will benefit the children of Buckinghamshire . Time for service development will be given in the job plan .

The post holder will be Paediatrician of the week (POW) and Neonatologist of the week (NOW) totalling 7 a year. There will also be attending weeks for the children's observation unit and the number of these will be confirmed on appointment (between 1.5-3.5 weeks depending on restructure of the rota) During these days s/he will have no other clinical commitments

The post holder will have resident duties doing "Twilight" shifts from within the Children's Emergency Department. This will be a weekend twilight shift to cover the Friday to Sunday evenings for 4 weekends a year to ensure that college standards for facing the future are fully met.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities Along with the clinical responsibilities listed above, the post will have a commitment to the education of junior staff and medical students when working with you. You are encouraged to consider being educational supervisors for the deanery.

Clinical Audit and Clinical Governance

Participate in clinical audit across the department in line with Trust policy and guidelines

Implement audit and research findings across the department

Comply with the Trust clinical governance processes in a timely manner

Continuing Professional Development

Supporting Professional Activities are undertaken by all Consultants in a collaborative manner based on SDU needs

Job plan

The post will be 10 PAs under the "new" consultant contract. An indicative job plan and timetable can be found below. The final job plan for the post will be agreed with the SDU lead and will be subject to renegotiation at least annually.

The existing general paediatric consultant rota is designed around a 45 week rolling cycle. There is a planned change if requirement to all posts are successful to a 60 week rolling rota . Paediatrician of the Week (POW) and Neonatologist of the Week (NOW) weeks are shared equally between 15 consultants. 1 st on call nights (non resident) are shared equally. During the day there is a 2 nd on call (non resident) consultant who covers the Children's Day unit at Wycombe hospital and is available at night as back up for the 1 st on consultant in the event of e.g. simultaneous neonatal and paediatric emergencies.

With the opening of our New children's ED department in April 2023 we are also doing on call weeks Monday Friday between the team.

Each consultant has 10.5 on call weeks in each year. The NOW and POW weeks runs from Friday Thursday. 3.5 times a year the consultant will also cover the new Children's observation unit (COU), Monday to Friday, which is co located with the new Children's ED department. This number may change to 1.5 with redesigning the rota.

We are currently looking at redesigning the rota (60 week rolling rota instead of 45) with some colleagues doing only COU weeks as part of their acute service commitment. This will decrease the amount of on call weeks for the rest of the 15 on call team .We may also be stopping 2 nd on call overnight duties which will decrease the supplement to 3% from 5% above . Daytime responsibilities for 2 nd on call at Wycombe Hospital will continue.

8 consultants share weekday evening twilight shifts. Fixed days are covered across the year by paired consultants doing 26 shifts per year. Additionally, each of the 8 consultants cover 2.3 twilight weekends. During the twilight shifts patients requiring admission are reviewed by the twilight consultant to ensure appropriate management and early planning for discharge to protect capacity. The remainder of the twilight weekends are covered by the other 7 consultants. This post is within the latter group of 7 consultants.

In combination the 1 st and 2 nd on call shifts mean that the rota is 1 in 7.5 and therefore attracts a Category A - Medium Frequency (5%) on call supplement. This may change as above to a 1 in 15 category A- low frequency (3%)

Provisional Job plan

Activity

Category

On Call Weeks

predictable on call work(0.86)

-

DCC

3.4

1 st & 2 nd ON calls - unpredictable

DCC

0.4

Twilight Shift (16-2200) - Includes

DCC

0.6

General and specialist Outpatient clinics

DCC

2.8

Supporting activities

Includes 1 Core PA for revalidation;

SPA

1.5

Other patient related DCC-MDT meetings / communication / correspondence

1.3

Total

10

Provisional Timetable excluding POW/NOW weeks

AM

PM

Monday

Admin / communication / correspondence /SPA

WGH-2 nd and 4 th -general / Admin

-

-

Thursday

WGH -General/specialist clinic

Friday

SPA- specialist interest /Admin

General/specialist clinic -SMH

Annual Leave Arrangements:

Leave should be arranged by mutual agreement of consultant colleagues and approval of the clinical director and/or general manager, in accordance with standard Trust and NHS regulations . click apply for full job details