Locum Consultant Paediatrician

NELFT North East London Foundation TrustCheck below to see if you have what is needed for this opportunity, and if so, make an application asap.Locum Consultant Paediatrician (Neuro Developmental Service)The closing date is 18 December 2025Locum Consultant Community Paediatrician for BHR Neurodevelopmental team (Barking & Dagenham, Havering & Redbridge) - Fixed Term 2 YearThe post is for 10 sessions Consultant Paediatrician in the BHR Neurodevelopmental service. The post holder will be a GMC registered clinician responsible for patients allocated to them and will assess, manage, plan, and deliver evidence based care, including being professionally and legally accountable.Main duties of the jobThe post holder will support with clinical and operational leadership as part of a newly established Neurodevelopmental service for children and will support their peers and team leader whilst being an effective team member and working on their own initiative. They will supervise junior colleagues including provision of teaching and training. They will have a commitment to collaborative working and actively supporting and liaising with other health and social care professionals and agencies.The post holder will contribute as the Consultant Paediatrician in Havering for the BHR Neurodevelopmental service and will work alongside the team of substantive Paediatric and CAMHS consultants. Part of the post-holders' duties will include service development, service evaluation and applied research.About usNELFT is proud to be an agile working Trust with excellent IT support enabling employees including clinicians to work flexibly providing a family friendly work culture. Post Holder will be provided with an Agile working device and will have access to Medical Secretary/PA based at The Acorn centre, 306 London road Romford RM7 9NH.Job responsibilitiesMain responsibilities:To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others workload in the day-to-day allocation of work.To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them, particularly administration of medicine and moving and handling.To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing, and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust register.The post holder will support the development of the ASD/ADHD service, working alongside the multidisciplinary specialist team. They will contribute towards assessment and relevant investigations and supervising MDT colleagues. They will produce reports to contribute to statutory work including EHC plans.Leverage opportunities to develop the integrated multidisciplinary Neurodevelopmental service across BHR.Provide a high quality, accessible, timely, efficient, effective, comprehensive and specialist Neurodevelopmental service for children and young people, their carers/parents and families.Provide and/or support the provision of evidence-based assessment and clinical management for service users. This will include providing highly specialist assessment and contributing to multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment of children and young people referred to the ASD service.Person SpecificationGMCFull GMC registration with a licence to practiceQualificationsCCT or equivalentSpecialist RegisterInclusion in, or eligibility for inclusion in the Specialist Register or within 6 months of obtaining CCSTExperienceAt least 2 years' experience in Community Child Health. xpwpeyx Disclosure and Barring Service CheckThis post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.NELFT North East London Foundation Trust#J-18808-Ljbffr