Consultant Community Paediatrician

3 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom NHS Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Consultant in Community Paediatrics to join our team at the NHS. As a Medical Advisor for Adoption, you will play a crucial role in providing expert medical advice and support to prospective adopters and children in care.

Main Responsibilities
  • Carrying out and supervising health assessments for children going for adoption.
  • Providing adoption medical reports, analysing past medical health and commenting on future implications to the child.
  • Meeting prospective adopters and sharing information in a way that can be understood by a layperson, providing advice to inform adoption support plans.
  • Providing written reports to the agency on the health of prospective adopters, analysing impact on child's health and wellbeing, and impact on parenting capacity of applicants.
  • Attending adoption panels by reviewing all medical reports (adults and children) on the panel agenda, identifying any issues that require specific advice and facilitating discussion at panel.
  • Prospective adopter training, which involves teaching at adoption preparation workshops on health issues for looked after children and the impact of trauma on development.
Role as part of the Haringey Community Paediatric Medical Team
  • Contributing to the child protection rota as part of the Community Paediatrics team, being the on-call consultant for safeguarding and attending the weekly peer review clinical meeting as part of the senior child protection team.
  • Working within the neurodevelopmental service, contributing to the autism diagnostic assessment, Neurodevelopmental Clinics, and Special School Clinics.
Person Specification
  • GMC registration.
  • MBBS or equivalent.
  • On the GMC's Specialist Register OR within six months of CCT at time of interview or equivalent of CCT in Paediatrics or Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration (CESR) application awaiting approval.
  • Level 4 Safeguarding training, Valid APLS and NLS.
  • Grid training in Community Paediatrics.
  • MSc/Diploma in Community Child Health or relevant subject.
Requirements
  • Experience in paediatrics, neurodisability, child protection, Looked After Children.
  • Experience of working in multi-disciplinary team and with multi-agency partners.
  • Experienced in the holistic assessment of children with complex needs and able to provide a written report detailing this information.
  • Experience of undertaking statutory health assessments of looked after children and adoption medicals.
  • Special interest in an area in Community Child Health.
Skills
  • High standards of clinical skills in the assessment of children referred for safeguarding concerns.
  • High standards of clinical skills in the assessment of children with developmental conditions including autism.
  • Sound understanding of the complex needs and outcomes of children in care and how to support them.
  • Teamworking skills to work effectively in a multi-disciplinary team and with multi-agency colleagues.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills including report writing and court attendances.
Management
  • Demonstrated good leadership skills.
  • Evidence of holding leadership/ strategic roles.
Education/Teaching
  • Commitment to learning and continuing professional development.
  • Experience of teaching and provision of clinical supervision.
  • Good presentation skills, evidence of presentation at local/ departmental level.
  • Evidence of commitment to training, e.g. formal teaching skills course, clinical/ educational supervision course.
  • Educational supervision accreditation.
  • Presentations at national or international meetings.
Research/Audit
  • Completed audits or quality improvement projects that have had a positive impact on clinical practice.
  • Understanding of research methodology and ability to apply research findings in clinical practice.
  • Publication in peer-reviewed journals.
  • Evidence of completion of research and publication (or in process).

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