Community Consultant Paediatrician

COMMUNITY CONSULTANT PAEDIATRICIAN
FOR BHR NEURODEVELOPMENTAL TEAM (BARKING & DAGENHAM, HAVERING & REDBRIDGE)
**Please note**: We reserve the right to close this advert, at any time, in the event of receiving suitable applicants.
**Job Details**:
Salary
£105,504.00 - £139,882.00 per annum (Pro-rata)
Contract
**Fixed Term**: 2 years
Hours
**Full-time**: 10 Programmed Activities (DCC: SPA = 7.5:2.5)
On call
None
Location
Acorn Centre, 306 London Road, Romford, RM7 9NH
**Qualifications needed**:

- Full GMC registration with a licence to practice
- CCT or equivalent
- Inclusion in, or eligibility for inclusion in the Specialist Register or within 6 months of obtaining CCST
- At least 2 years’ experience in Community Child Health.

This is a well-established, substantive, full-time post - 10 Programmed
Activities (PAs) post with 7.5 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and
2.5 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs).
**On-call responsibility**:
There is no on call responsibilities associated with this post.
We are currently recruiting to a Community Consultant Paediatrician position which forms part of the BHR Paediatric Neurodevelopment Service but will mainly be part of the community Havering Specialist Children Service, based at Acorn Centre, 306 London Road, Romford, RM7 9NH. This is a new, substantive, full-time post. This post is currently vacant, and we wish to recruit to it as soon as possible.
The successful applicant will also become part of a large (30+ community paediatricians), dynamic, community paediatric team, across the whole of North East London Foundation Trust.
There will also be the opportunity for the post holder to further develop links already established with the local acute trusts, to continually improve our services. There are close links with the acute paediatric departments at King George Hospital (Ilford) and Queens Hospital (Romford) (BHRUT).
1. To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others’ workload in the day-to-day allocation of work.
2. To deputise when required in the team manager’s absence and delegate appropriately to other medical staff.
3. To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them.
4. To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.
5. 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’s risk register.
6. 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.
7. Leverage opportunities to develop the integrated multidisciplinary Neurodevelopmental service across BHR.
8. Provide a high quality, accessible, timely, efficient, effective, comprehensive and specialist Neurodevelopmental service for children and and young people, their carers/parents and families.
9. 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.
10. Responsible for assessment, treatment, and systemic outcome measurement in the specialist care pathway.
11. Contribute to coordination and service development within the Neurodevelopmental service
12. Managing waiting list within specialist care pathway and ensuring waiting lists are at clinically safe level. Prioritise resources in line with clinical needs.