Consultant Paediatrician

We are recruiting for a Locum Paediatric Consultant who wishes to join #TeamIOWNHS. You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive quality and compassionate care and work with us to ensure the Trust continues its journey towards “great people, great place”.

**We are currently awaiting approval for the job description for this role from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health**

For an overview of the main duties of the role please see the 'Job Description and Main Responsibilities' section below. To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail please read the full job description document attached.

We are passionate about providing excellent CARE, which is why our values areCompassion,Accountable,Respect andEveryone counts. Our mission is to make sure that our community is at the heart of everything we do and that we hold our values across all our services.

We are committed to endorsing inclusion, diversity and multiculturalism throughout out services and as such, our procedures and policies ensure that applicants are always treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.

The Isle of Wight NHS Trust is the only integrated acute, community, mental health and ambulance health care provider in England. We serve a population of approximately 150,000 residents, making the services we offer variable and personalised with a flexible approach to our service users.

Working for our Trust brings a variety of benefits, including an onsite day nursery, cycle-to-work scheme, discounts at local businesses and gyms, and the opportunity to hire Trust’s beach hut in Ryde. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

The Isle of Wight is a unique and stunning gem located off the South Coast of England, a short ferry journey from Portsmouth and Southampton, with journey times taking from as little as 10 minutes. London can be reached in 90 minutes by rail from Southampton or Portsmouth. The island offers an amazing coastline with beautiful countryside, year-round events, festivals and award-winning attractions.

Job Description and Person Specification

The Planned Care Division

The operational and clinical structure of the acute hospital is aligned to the Planned and Unplanned Care Groups.

The Planned Care Group is a diverse collection of services. It encompasses Diagnostic Imaging and Pathology services, Cancer and Outpatients as well as booking services. It also provides acute child and family services including Maternity, SCBU and Children’s Ward. The Care Group includes theatres as well as all the surgical specialties and Anaesthetics. There are four designated acute Planned Care Wards. All the Care Group’s services are rated ‘Good’ by the CQC. Each service within the Care Group is led by a Lead Clinician, along with a senior nurse or AHP and supported by an operational team.

Management of the Care Group is through a Care Group Board, consisting of the Care Group Director, Director of Operations, Associate Director of Operations and Associate Director of Nursing and Director of Midwifery for planned care. The Boards are supported by relevant corporate areas of HR, Quality and Finance.

The Paediatric Service

The post holder will work within Paediatrics providing medical care for children and young people up to the age of 18yrs. The Paediatric department is made up of the Children’s Ward, the Paediatric Assessment Unit and the Children’s Day ward. The Children’s Ward has 10 beds, including one Higher Dependency bed, and co-located next to the inpatient ward is a 3 bedded Paediatric Assessment Unit. The day unit has 6 beds which are used for day case surgical procedures as well as food challenges and other day case procedures. There are excellent facilities within the department. Including a large play-room shared by all three areas, where activities are overseen by our play therapist.

Special Care Baby Unit

The Unit is situated adjacent to both the postnatal ward and to the labour ward, and has 6 cots and a stabilisation area. The unit admits babies of 32-weeks gestation and over, more intensive care is provided by our network tertiary neonatal units in Portsmouth and Southampton. The Unit is an active member of the Thames Valley and Wessex Neonatal Network.

The David Hyde Asthma and Allergy Research Unit

This purpose-built unit has great potential, both locally and nationally, as a research base for allergic disease. Patients can be referred to the Consultant-led outpatient service which is available twice weekly. There are ongoing studies into the development of allergy disease in infancy and childhood.

The Southampton University Hospital and University of Southampton Link

There is a close collaboration between the paediatric staff on the Isle of Wight and the sub