Consultant Community Paediatrician

Consultant Community Paediatrician

Closing date: 05 March 2026

Are you a Community Paediatrician looking for a new challenge? Do you want to develop an innovative role around your experience & specialist areas of interest? We would also be very interested in applicants who are very interested in a future career as Medical Advisor for Adoption. Do you want to expand your network of partners across a range of disciplines to enhance the services for children and young people & their families with additional needs?

If the answer is “Yes”, this could be the opportunity you are seeking.

• To join a diverse team of Paediatricians, Nurses, Admin & Allied Health Practitioners with excellent relationships & access to other partners already established including CAMHS, Education & hospital paediatric teams.
• Work collaboratively across our Community Paediatrics & CAMHS services, including joint assessments & multi-disciplinary service development.
• Opportunity to develop an area of special interest.
• Consistently receive positive feedback from our service users.
• Patients as Top Priority.
• With the Trust expanding its services across all areas, this is an ideal time to join as we are always striving to be more innovative in what we provide, & your input will enable us to do this & enhance our skill mix.
• Participation in research is actively encouraged.

You will already be broadly experienced in all aspects of Community Paediatrics. You are competent in assessing children for suspected abuse and neglect, able to diagnose and manage a range of neurodevelopmental problems (including ASD & ADHD) and neurodisability, and experienced in aspects of child mental health related to child development.

If successful, you will work across Luton and Bedfordshire and be part of a passionate team who are always looking at ways to develop and improve the service for our users.

We are looking to appoint two enthusiastic Community Consultant Paediatricians to join our dynamic Community Paediatrics team in Luton and Bedfordshire. Each post will have a maximum of 10 programmed activities each, and candidates wishing to work part-time are also invited to apply. We seek candidates experienced in Neurodevelopmental Paediatrics, Neuro-disability and Safeguarding Children. There is potential for taking on or developing a lead role depending on the suitability, experience and interest.

Responsibilities include:

• Provide clinical expertise for patient care within the Community Paediatric service, carry out child protection medical assessments one day a week (working hours only), provide training and supervision to a range of trainees, and contribute to departmental service improvement.
• Support development of further leadership experience.
• Work at Child Development Centre (CDC) in Kempston, Bedford, or at Edwin Lobo Centre (ELC), Redgrave Gardens, Luton, with possibility of working across both sites.
• Collaborate closely with acute paediatric teams at Bedford Hospital and Luton & Dunstable Hospital and participate in joint clinics such as neurology and orthopaedics.
• Conduct assessments and management of children and young people with developmental impairments, neuro-disability, and neurodivergence, including multi-disciplinary assessments (MDA).
• Provide medical assessments and reports for Education, Health and Care Plans.
• Conduct Child protection medical assessments for physical abuse & neglect.
• Provide Adoption medicals and Initial Health Assessments (IHAs) for Children in Care.

There are no out of hours on call requirements for this job. The post holders will be required to comply with GMC revalidation, participate in annual appraisal, and allocate time for CPD. Training and support is available to enable the role of Medical Appraiser within the Trust.

Time is allocated within the job plan to support professional activities including CPD. Training and support is available to take on the role as a Medical Appraiser within the Trust.

We run weekly internal CPD activities, and the department has been involved in several regional and…