Consultant Community Paediatrician

6 months ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Birmingham Community Healthcare (BCHC) NHS Foundation Trust provides a wide range of high quality, accessible and responsive community and specialist healthcare services across the diverse and culturally rich City of Birmingham and the wider West Midlands region.

The Children and Families Division brings together all Universal and Specialist Community Services for children and provides a co-ordinated approach for child health care. We maintain good links with the Clinical Commissioning Groups, the Local Authority and voluntary agencies providing care for children.

These consultant posts will join a team of 21 Consultant Paediatricians leading the Community Child Health Services in Birmingham. The posts will be based, one in East of the city, one in South and one in West.

The posts encompass work in the fields of neurodevelopment and neurodisability in locality based clinics and Special School clinics, children in care and child protection, with an on call out of hours commitment for the Sudden Unexpected Death in Childhood service.

A CCT in Community Paediatrics or Paediatric Neurodisability is essential and a higher qualification (MRCPCH or equivalent) is required.

Be Part of Our Team...

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you.

1. Neurodevelopmental Paediatrics

Working as part of an established multidisciplinary team, the post holder will undertake the specialist medical assessment, investigation and clinical management of the children with neurodevelopmental problems through designated clinics in the Child Development Centre and contribute to the multidisciplinary assessment process.

2. Child Protection

All consultants take part in the daytime non CSA Child Protection rota, both directly and in a supervisory role.

3. Rapid Response

To be part of the Rapid Response Team for Sudden Unexpected Deaths (SUDIC) providing the ‘home visit’ and subsequent medical input in this process. The on-call frequency is approximately 1:9. This provides a 24 hour service (including weekends and bank holidays). Training will be provided to those who do not have competencies to join 1ston call rota.

4. Lead Role

Currently no lead role is attached to this post.

5. Special Schools
1. The post holder will provide Consultant input to special schools as required.
2. School based clinics are generally run fortnightly in term time which facilitates liaison with therapists based in school and educational colleagues. In school holidays the children are reviewed in neurodevelopmental clinics if needed.

6. Locality Provision
1. The post holder will provide specialist community paediatric services within South/East/West of Birmingham, secondary referral clinics and provide a consultation service for the primary care teams and local schools according to agreed clusters.

7. Special Educational Needs

The post holder will provide medical advice to the Local Education Department relating to children with special educational needs under the Children and Families Act 2014.

8. Teaching
1. The post holder will be required to provide supervision and guidance for junior colleagues and medical students, and provide support to Health Visitors, School Nurses, and other Agency staff if deemed appropriate

9. Management

Together with the existing Consultant Community Paediatricians provide clinical leadership to the community paediatric team.

Work collaboratively with other members of the multi-disciplinary team, Heads of Service and Directorate Managers in planning services both locally and Trust wide.

Attend policy review meetings to discuss changes required to improve child health services for the local community.

10. On Call commitment outside normal daytime working hours

The on call requirement for SUDIC is described above. There is no acute paediatric on call commitment.

11. Other duties may be required as delegated by the Divisional Medical Director by agreement with the post holder.



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