Specialist Paediatric Physiotherapist

Job overview

6 Month Fixed Term Maternity Cover Required

We are keen to appoint 1 enthusiastic and committed Neonatologist to join the team at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust. The post is a fixed term post for 6 month initially.

We are level 2 NNU and around 6000 deliveries in a year. 

Main duties of the job

To provide a high standard of care to any patient for whom you have clinical responsibility. This will include any patients referred to you and cared for by you personally or by members of your team and, in addition, any patients of consultant colleagues when you are covering on-call or for annual leave.

To participate in clinical and other service activities and developments with the aim of ensuring a high standard of patient care across the Trust.

To work in close co-operation with other medical, professional and managerial colleagues, both within and outside the specialty, to provide high quality health care to the Trust’s patients, and to contribute to future thinking about the Trust’s strategic direction.

Working for our organisation

The Department of Paediatrics offers a wide range of general services to children, as well as a number of specialist paediatric services, many of which are shared care services in association with tertiary centres. Paediatric oncology services are provided on a shared care basis with London centres, particularly the Royal Marsden, our Trust being recognised as a paediatric oncology shared care unit (POSCU). Neonatal unit have 3 intensive care cots., 8 high dependency, 1isolation cot and 6 SCBU cots with very busy transitional care mainly supervised by midwives. We also support 2 birthing centres one at Maidstone Hospital and other at Crowborough but there is no direct clinical commitment on these sites.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To provide a high standard of care to any patient for whom you have clinical responsibility. This will include any patients referred to you and cared for by you personally or by members of your team and, in addition, any patients of consultant colleagues when you are covering on-call or for annual leave. To participate in clinical and other service activities and developments with the aim of ensuring a high standard of patient care across the Trust. To work in close co-operation with other medical, professional and managerial colleagues, both within and outside the specialty, to provide high quality health care to the Trust’s patients, and to contribute to future thinking about the Trust’s strategic direction. To participate fully in and share leadership of the clinical governance of the specialty covering its Trust-wide activities. To attend clinical governance half-days as detailed in the Trust’s Guide to Job Planning unless on agreed leave or while attending emergencies. To participate actively in departmental audits, sharing co-ordination of audit activities within the department and implementation of change. To take an active responsibility for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, training and supervision. To assume responsibility, both personally and corporately with consultant colleagues, for the management of junior medical staff. You are expected to be involved in their professional development, both clinical and personal as per guidance from the Deanery. To ensure that all doctors in training for whom you have supervisory responsibilities undertake delegated clinical tasks that are within their level of competence and knowledge. To ensure at all times that you comply with the General Medical Council’s published guide “Good Medical Practice” including the Duties of a Doctor. To take personal responsibility for risk management in your work and undertake to review practices and learn from mistakes.  To share in the ‘on-call’ rota. To provide prospective cover for colleagues during annual and study leave and other absences as far as is practicable and clinically safe.  To ensure that you respond promptly and efficiently to all complaints related to any patient care you or your staff have been involved with, assisting the Trust’s corporate responsibility to reply to complaints within a specified time frame. To ensure that you develop and maintain effective working relationships with those agencies concerned with the provision of health and social care services and those representing the interests of patients.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

MRCPCH or overseas equivalent CCT/CESR or within 6 months of achieving it Registered with GMC

Desirable criteria

Distinctions, scholarships, prizes Other degrees, e.g. BSc, MSc MD

Experience & Skills

Essential criteria

NALS and APLS [or equivalent] provider Neonatal level 3 experience minimum 12 months

Desirable criteria

2 years level 2/3 NNU experience

Audit

Essential criteria

Understand the principles of audit Evidence of participation in audit projects

Research

Essential criteria

An understanding of general principles, scientific method and interpretation of literature

Desirable criteria

Evidence of personal research projects and their presentation Publications in peer-reviewed journals

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