Locum Consultant Community Paediatrician

**Job overview**:
Applications are invited for 1 Locum Consultant Community Paediatrician.

You will join a team of community paediatricians in Salford who work together to provide and Community Paediatric services for Salford children. Community Paediatrics operates in a locality system with a consultant lead for each area. Outpatient clinics are held in the community in purpose-built health and social centers.

You will undertake a role in a locality including chairing that area’s neurodevelopmental panel and undertaking locality clinics. You will also take part in the child protection clinic rota. You will be expected to work in the multidisciplinary complex physical needs clinic. Other areas of interest will be accommodated where possible in discussion with the wider team.

**Main duties of the job**:
Applicants should have or be nearing their Paediatric/Community Paediatric CCT and have full GMC registration.

The pediatricians are now co located in the new Childrens service HUB with the wider children’s Teams. The facilitates Multidisciplinary working and improved communication between teams.

Salford is an inner city and one of 10 metropolitan districts in Greater Manchester and has a population of 230 000 with 48 000 children under 16. In recent years, there has been considerable urban regeneration and numerous initiatives to improve public health.

Salford Royal has teamed up with housing association Salix Homes to provide a 26-apartment complex for doctors, nurses and other clinical staff new to the Trust. Please enquire upon appointment to review availability.

**Working for our organisation**:
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Full registration with the General Medical Council Licensed with the GMC
- Licensed with the GMC
- Higher Specialist training with CCT in Community Paediatrics

**Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Higher Specialist training with CCT in Community Paediatrics
- We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to supporting flexible working for our people wherever possible and all our colleagues are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) serves a diverse population, and each Care Organisation works hard to ensure all services are accessible and fair.

We respect the value of difference. So, our aim is to employ a workforce representative of the communities we serve. Regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, trans status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, all are welcome.

**Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process.**

**Employer certification / accreditation badges**:
**Applicant requirements**:

- You must have appropriate UK professional registration.