Job Introduction
As a Specialty Doctor in Community Paediatrics, you will be part of a team of doctors providing specialist assessment, diagnosis and ongoing care to children, young people, and families in West Essex.
You will have exciting opportunities to grow and develop professionally. You will be encouraged to take on and develop a subspecialty interest and gain management experience. The job plan can be adapted according to your strengths, balancing the needs and strengths of the whole team.
You will have a fulfilling and varied role, with the chance to make a tangible difference to the population we serve through innovation and quality improvement activities, developing and shaping services.
You will be provided with a laptop and mobile phone, giving you the opportunity to work flexibly with a great work/life balance. Applicants looking for a full time, part time- or job-sharing arrangement are welcomed.
Our Service
The NHS and Essex County Council have commissioned HCRG Care Group and Barnardo’s to 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 with its diverse population and environment. West Essex Children’s Services provide for a population of over 70,000 children aged 0 -18.
Main Responsibility
As Specialty Doctor Your clinical work will be undertaken in the West Essex catchment area, with exact locations to be confirmed according to availability and your preferences. The possibility of negotiating a different base and clinical patch in West Essex may be considered.
Hours: 10 PA (Part time and job-sharing arrangements will be considered)
As a Specialty Doctor in Community Paediatrics, you will have a good understanding of Community Paediatrics and have relevant experience in the clinical management of children, including those with neurodevelopmental difficulties and safeguarding children. Your days will be varied, and outcome driven as you provide assessment, diagnosis and ongoing care to children, young people, and families in West Essex.
The appointee will:
- You 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.
- You will contribute to multidisciplinary assessment and management in a collaborative way, liaising with all members of the team for initial assessments and follow-ups where relevant.
- You will participate fully in safeguarding activities and other aspects of community paediatric work. This includes providing information and participating in discussions with the multi-agency hub, strategy meetings, peer review and safeguarding supervision. You will be responsible for performing medical assessments of children referred by the police or children’s social care where there are safeguarding concerns.
- You will perform medical examinations in relation to assessments of Looked After Children, collating information from other clinicians and completing the relevant documentation.
- You will complete all your reports and administration in a timely manner, adhering to the timescales set by departmental guidance and from statutory agencies.
- You will share responsibility for covering urgent work during colleagues’ periods of annual leave and short-term sickness.
- You will be responsible, with management support, for your own personal development and will actively contribute to the development of colleagues. This will involve participating and contributing to the supervision, teaching, and training of other staff to the departmental audit and clinical governance programmes.
- You will 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 and undertaking management duties.
- 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. This includes being aware of and complying with infection prevention and control policies.
- You will observe the rules, policies, procedures and standards of HCRG Care Group together with all relevant statutory and professional obligations, conducting all activities within the contracted level of service and operating plan for the department. You will observe and maintain strict confidentiality of personal information relating to patients and staff.
Proposed job plan
The precise job plan will be developed and agreed with you and reviewed at least annually. It will include specified sessions for:
- Direct Clinical Care (DCC) = clinical activity, clinical related activity including administration, predictable and unpredictable work, and clinical supervision. Includes safeguarding medical examination, attendance at case conferences, providing advice and reports and undertaking peer review and supervision.
- Supporting Professional Activities (SPA) = Continuing Professional Development, undertaking clinical audit, attending, and delivering teaching sessions, service development and other clinical governance activity
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
- Minimum 2 years’ experience in 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
- Excellent IT skills
Desirable
- Experience in Community Paediatrics
- 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
Other requirements
We would welcome colleagues with a subspecialty interest, particularly individuals with experience or an interest in Neurology and/or Neurodisabilities.
You will be able to demonstrate an understanding of how working in community settings differs from hospital and have the ability to diagnose and appropriately manage developmental abnormalities within children. You will additionally be involved in clinics focusing on neurodevelopment, special needs, and autism.
Package Description
As Specialty Doctor in Community Paediatrics, you’ll be feel reward and valued as part of our team in West Essex:
- £60,519.00 - £79,054+ 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, diverse 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.
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