Consultant in Community Paediatrics

Are you a Consultant Community Paediatrician looking for a new opportunity?

THIS POST ATTRACTS FINANCIAL INCENTIVES UP TO£29,000Broken down as follows:
£16,000 Relocation Package
£8,000 Golden Hello Payment
£5,000 Expenses Package

Our complete commitment to developing careers means we’re looking for proactive, motivated, forward thinking, and dynamic individuals to join our clinical team. This post is an important part of our ongoing development of medical services at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, offering the successful applicant the opportunity to work closely with the existing Community Pediatricians to provide a high standard of care across the Trust.

We are seeking consultants with enthusiasm, commitment, and drive to work closely with colleagues throughout the organisation and within the community to help lead the organisation.

East and North Hertfordshire have fantastic opportunities available for Community Paediatricians.We have 2 substantive posts available, based at the brand new QEII Hospital located in Welwyn. The posts consists of 10 programmed activities (PAs), but part time and job share applicants are welcome to apply.

There are opportunities for Consultants with special interests in Epilepsy, Diabetes and Endocrinology, and Cardiology. We can also accommodate acute work and paediatric clinic work.

This is a career enhancing opportunity to work with a team of dynamic and experience Community Paediatricians in an active and progressive department. Our team consists of 14 Consultants and 1 Associate Specialist, supported by specialist health visitors, children’s specialist nurses and psychologists. We work closely with or colleagues in acute paediatrics, speech and language, physiotherapy, and occupational therapy.

The successful post holder will participate in the diagnosis and management of children with a range of neurodevelopmental difficulties including ASD and ADHD.

The post holder will also participate in multidisciplinary assessment clinics for children with suspected autism, for pre-school and school age children and provide a safeguarding children service in conjunction with other colleagues. You will providemedical input for SEN, special schools and adoption and fostering as required

If you are successful, you must also provide clinical supervision of Paediatric Doctors in training.

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

** We run the following hospitals**:

- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
- Maintenance of high quality patient centred care
- Teaching and training within the multidisciplinary service
- Active involvement in multidisciplinary team meetings and directorate clinical governance activity
- Active participation in continuing medical education

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specificationapplicantpack for further detailed information regarding this role.