Consultant in General Paediatrics

5 months ago


Sutton Coldfield, United Kingdom University Hospitals Birmingham Full time

**Job summary**:
This is a 9PA substantive general paediatric consultant post arising due to retirement. It is based at Good Hope Hospital with duties across sites.

**Main duties, tasks & skills required**:
Please note for more information about this opportunity please see attached detailed job description.

**About us**:
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

**Job description**:
Our Good Hope base has a 12-bed assessment and inpatient unit supporting GP referrals and a busy ED, and a Level 1 neonatal unit supporting 4500 deliveries per annum. The medical team includes 10 consultants and a full middle and first tier rota. We work together with the larger inpatient unit at Heartlands which has a paediatric HDU. Our consultants provide a variety of subspecialty services.

Distribution of PA's

In principle the job plan will comprise a maximum of 9 PA's with breakdown as below
- 7.0 PA's - for Direct Clinical Care (including on-calls & clinics)
- 1.0 PA's for 'Supporting Professional Activities' to support annual appraisal & revalidation with General Medical Council including active involvement in departmental and Trust governance and Quality improvement process (e.g. reviewing and scoping of incidents, participation in departmental and national audits).
- 1.0 PA flexible for DCC or other duties as agree with clinical service lead.

Clinical work responsibilities (minimum 7.0 PA's per week)

The post holder will be mainly based at the Good Hope site but will be expected to be able to work at any of the other sites
- Out of hours on calls will be at Good Hope Hospital covering general paediatrics, and Level 1 Neonatal unit. Current frequency is approximately 1 in 10. This includes onsite presence until 20.30 hours (Mon - Friday) and until 13.00 on weekends/bank holidays.
- Consultants work a 'Consultant of the week' pattern in all service areas. General Paediatrics ward work may be shared across the Heartlands and Good Hope sites.
- Outpatient activity (50-70 clinics per year) will be across the Good Hope, Solihull and Heartlands sites as required.
- All consultants provide general paediatric services. Subspecialty interests will be considered with the substantive appointment looking towards diabetes as preferred interest.

Supporting responsibilities (1.0 core PA)
- Participation in teaching and training of junior staff and those in other medical disciplines, nursing and support staff as appropriate.
- Participation in regional acute paediatric training (RAPT) to maintain acute paediatric skills
- Research training, including GCP and clinical trial administration
- Participation in clinical governance activities including audits, and other supporting activities as directed by the needs of the service.
- Responding and engaging with any complaints or investigations within the trust
- Attending statutory, essential and mandatory training.
- Attending and keeping up to date with child safeguarding training as per trust requirements

**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential**:

- MBBS or equivalent
- MRCPCH or equivalent

**Disclosure and Barring Service Check**:
**Certificate of Sponsorship**:
**UK Professional Registration**:
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.



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