Consultant Paediatrician

The post is for 10 sessions Consultant Paediatrician in the BHR Neurodevelopmental service. The post holder will be a GMC registered clinician responsible for patients allocated to them and will assess, manage, plan, and deliver evidence-based care, including being professionally and legally accountable.

The post holder will support with clinical and operational leadership as part of a newly established Neurodevelopmental service for children and will support their peers and team leader whilst being an effective team member and working on their own initiative. They will supervise junior colleagues including provision of teaching and training. They will have a commitment to collaborative working and actively supporting and liaising with other health and social care professionals and agencies.

The post holder will contribute as the Consultant Paediatrician in Redbridge for the BHR Neurodevelopmental service and will work alongside the team of substantive Paediatric and CAMHS consultants.

The successful applicant will also become part of a large (30+ community paediatricians) dynamic community paediatric team, across the whole of Northeast London Foundation Trust.

Part of the post-holders' duties will include service development, service evaluation and applied research.

The successful candidate will provide senior medical support to the team, and direct input on clinical cases. The consultant will be expected to provide guidance and supervision to the team, work directly with babies, children, and young people (and their families), and liaise as appropriate with other external health providers, and acute hospitals.

This post provides unique opportunity for the post holder to further develop links already established with the Tertiary and local acute trusts, in order to deliver specialist services within the community. There are existing close links with the acute paediatric department at Kind George Hospital (Ilford) and Queens Hospital (Romford) alongside Tertiary colleagues at the Royal London and Great Ormond Street Hospital.

The expectation of the post holder will be to support their team, department and organisation to follow the Trust's Values in their day-to-day work.