Vacancies

Consultant Community Paediatrician - BaNES

Main Responsibility

As a Consultant Community Paediatrician in HCRG Care Group Wiltshire you’ll join a tight-knit, supportive team where you’ll be working as part of the health care system in BaNES Wiltshire where we deliver services across the child health department.

Within the team, you’ll be provided with support and flexibility to allow you to fit your life into your work. 

The post holder will also assist in the clinical supervision and coordination of the work of trainees and specialty doctors, as well as participating in peer support.

Your days will be varied and fulfilling and may include:

• Deliver developmental paediatric clinics, assessing children with a range of concerns that are affecting their development or educational potential, in accordance with our established referral criteria. This includes medical assessments for the SEND process.
• Complete their reports and administration in timescales as per departmental guidance and adhering to that from statutory agencies.
• Contribute to multidisciplinary assessment and management in a collaborative way with all members of the team for initial assessments and follow-ups where relevant.
• Be responsible for performing medical assessments of children referred by the police or children’s social care where there are safeguarding concerns.
• Perform medical examinations in relation to assessments of Looked After Children, to collate information from other clinicians and complete the relevant forms within specified statutory time limits.
• Liaise with other health professionals to ensure coordinated management of assessments, treatment and follow up.
• Will contribute to other aspects of community paediatric work as necessary.
• To participate and contribute to the supervision, teaching and training of other staff in children’s services.
• Responsible for covering colleagues’ periods of annual leave and short-term sickness.
• To contribute to the audit and clinical governance programmes.
• To take an active role in the formulation, implementation, and monitoring of the organisation’s objectives. This may include assisting with discussions regarding service plans and developments with both internal and external agencies.
• To conduct all activities within the contracted level of service and operating plan for the Department.
• You have a general duty of care for the health, safety and well-being of yourself, work colleagues, visitors, and patients within the service in addition to any specific risk management or clinical governance accountabilities associated with this post.

Proposed plan of programmed activities (PAs):

3.25 clinics per week 6.5 (including admin)

Neurology and physical disability lead role 1.0

Supporting professional activities 2.5

Total 10 PAs (40 hours)

The Ideal Candidate

Essential

• UK recognised medical degree (MBChB, MBBS)
• Full GMC Registration
• Work permit (if required)
• MRCPCH or equivalent
• On the Specialist Register for Paediatrics or within 6 months of CCT date
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in Community Paediatrics
• Evidence of Level 3 training and experience in Safeguarding Children
• Excellent team-working, leadership, organisational and time management skills.
• Excellent clinical and inter-personal skills
• Experience working with a Multidisciplinary Team

Desirable

• CCT in Community Child Health
• Completion of formal training in Standardised Autism Assessments (such as ADOS, ADI-R, 3di) and experience in multidisciplinary assessments.
• Training in a standardised formal developmental assessment for children
• Experience in the assessment, diagnosis and management of ADHD
• Experience of Child Protection assessments, Initial Health Assessments for Looked After Children, advice to the LA regarding Special Educational Needs
• Experience in leading projects, audit and Quality Improvement
• Experience in teaching and training other professionals
• Published research in Community Paediatrics

Package Description

You will feel valued as a Consultant Community Paediatrician (neurodisability) within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: 

• £88,364.00 - £119,133.0​0 + NHS terms and conditions plus pension
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• *An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year 

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care. 

Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. 

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, di-verse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. 

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can. 

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people, and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance, so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and every-one who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. 

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