Consultant Paediatrician

Job Summary

Locum Consultant General Paediatrician

10 PA

12 months fixed term Post

Epsom & St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

We are currently seeking a Consultant Paediatrician to join our team at Queen Mary's Hospital for Children, St Helier Hospital, to help deliver our service in the boroughs of Merton and Sutton. This post is a replacement position and will be based at St Helier hospital.

The post holder will work collaboratively with the acute General Paediatric team during working hours to provide routine day-to-day acute paediatric services and share the out-of-hours on-call responsibilities. The post holder will be attending Consultant on a 1 in 5 week basis on the General Paediatric ward and provide on-call cover with a frequency of 1 in 8, including weekends and Bank holidays.

The post holder is expected to contribute specifically to the wide range of acute paediatric services, including the first-fit clinic.

Applicants are expected to be on the GMC specialist register or be within 6 months of obtaining CCT at the time of interview.

Main Duties of the Job

The successful applicant will play a crucial role in ensuring the team continues to deliver a high-quality service and will be involved in strategic planning of services with our local partners. The post holder will join a team of 18 Acute Paediatric Consultants and 3 Associate Specialists. There are also 15 middle-grade and 16 junior doctors on the acute paediatric and neonatal rotas, in addition to Clinical Nurse Specialists for Epilepsy, Asthma, Allergy, Gastroenterology, and Diabetes.

Routine educational activities include weekly junior doctor teaching programmes, in addition to Quality meetings, Child Protection Peer review, and Mortality & Morbidity meetings run as part of the monthly programme. There will be opportunities to build and further teaching and training ambitions, as we have middle-grade trainees within the department.

About Us

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust offers an extensive range of services, including cancer, pathology, surgery, and gynaecology to over 490,000 people in south-west London and north-east Surrey. We operate two busy general hospitals, Epsom Hospital and St Helier Hospital, and run services from other locations, including Sutton Hospital. St Helier Hospital is home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children, while Epsom Hospital is home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC). Both Epsom and St Helier hospitals have Accident and Emergency departments (A&E) and Maternity services (Obstetrics). The Trust also plays an active role in the local healthcare economy.

Job Responsibilities

Main Responsibilities and Duties

Principle Duties of the Post

The principal duty of this post is to provide a comprehensive clinical service to patients.

• To, at all times, comply with the GMC's guidance on Good Medical Practice as amended or substituted from time to time.
• To ensure that patient confidentiality is maintained at all times.
• To undertake duties as defined within the attached job plan in so far as practicable and in agreement with your Clinical Director.
• To be responsible and managerially accountable for the reasonable and effective use of Trust resources that you use and influence, and professionally accountable to the Medical Director.
• On commencement to ensure personal attendance at the Trust's corporate Induction (or arranged Consultant Induction).
• To participate in the Trust's Statutory & Mandatory training programme.
• To be responsible for the Clinical Management of both inpatients and outpatients under your care.

Management & Governance

• To maintain personal and professional development. The post holder will be expected to register with their respective Royal College for the purpose of CME/CPD and to fulfil the requirements of that registration.
• To provide advice, as required to the Executive and Trust Board, General Practitioners and other interested parties, on the provision of planning of clinical services locally, regionally and nationally in keeping with confidentiality agreements relating to Trust business.
• To co-operate in the present framework agreement of management arrangements.
• To fully participate in Clinical Governance arrangements across the Trust, including participation in clinical audit, research (where appropriate), pursuing an agreed agenda with colleagues and the Trust Board and fully co-operating in implementing the results in order to achieve best practice.
• To participate, on at least an annual basis in appraisal and job planning reviews.
• To comply with Trust policies and procedures where appropriate.
• To ensure that all intellectual property rights of the Trust are observed.

To participate in the delivery of educational activities and training of juniors, and contribute to supervision ensuring a completed educational portfolio in line with GMC recommendations

Proposed Job Plan

The proposed job plan for this post is attached. This will be discussed in detail with the post holder on appointment.

Job plans will be reviewed annually, following an appraisal meeting. The job plan will be a prospective agreement that sets out a Consultant's typical working pattern, duties, objectives, and responsibilities for the coming year.

On appointment of the post holder, the Clinical Lead will commence discussions to finalise the job plan, which will become operational on appointment. The job plan is an indicative plan of the duties the post holder is likely to be asked to undertake.

Administrative Arrangements

The successful applicant will have secretarial support and office accommodation.