Job Introduction
We are looking for a “Consultant Community Paediatrician” to come and join our friendly service in West Essex. Community Paediatricians are an integral part of West Essex’s children’s community services, and the team are working to harmonize provision and develop services and pathways across the region. The team provide an effective, evidence based and timely community paediatric medical services to children and young people with developmental disorders to assist children in reaching their potential.
Our Service
Our Service On behalf of the NHS and Essex County Council, HCRG Care Group and Barnardo’s provide a range of child and family services throughout Essex that are free at the point of delivery. You will work as part of an integrated team with the wider Children's Community Health services and universal provision, delivering public health and the Healthy Child Programme to ensure children and young people in Essex have the best possible start in life. Work is carried out collaboratively with therapists and other agencies, such as social care and education making our service a unique and special place to work.
Our Community Paediatric Team holds regular meetings which incorporate CPD, clinical governance, service design, safeguarding supervision, peer review, audit, medicines management and team management. Within these meetings you will have the opportunity to contribute to delivering a high-quality service as well as to drive service improvement and innovation with support from wider HCRG Care Group colleagues.
Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service aims to provide a comprehensive and cohesive service to the children of West Essex. West Essex has a diverse population and environment. West Essex Children’s Services provide for a population of approximately 65,000 children aged 0 -18.
In West Essex, HCRG Care Group and Barnardo’s are commissioned by NHS West Essex CCG and NHS England to provide a wide range of children’s community health services. The service looks after over 105,000 children and young people across the county.
Community Paediatricians are an integral part of the Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service. The team are working to harmonise provision and develop services and pathways across West Essex. The team provide effective, evidence based and timely community paediatric medical services to children and young people with developmental disorders to assist children in reaching their potential. Work is carried out collaboratively with therapists and other agencies, such as social care and education. Community Paediatric services are delivered in a variety of settings including hospital clinics, community clinics, community hospitals and in special schools. Team wide meetings with all the community paediatricians are planned held every monthly and incorporate CPD, clinical governance, service design, safeguarding supervision/peer review, audit and team management.
The children’s community nursing team provides home based care for children in the county. Community Paediatricians work closely with therapy colleagues offering coordinated assessments wherever appropriate.
Main Responsibility
As consultant community paediatrician you will deliver clinical care at a variety of locations across West Essex.
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.
The appointee will:
- 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
As “Consultant Community Paediatrician”, you’ll be feel reward and valued as part of our team in West Essex:
- £88,364 - £119,133 + NHS terms and conditions plus pension
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday 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
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with 100% of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
- Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location
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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