Locum Consultant Paediatrician in Community Child Health

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1 WTE

Full time/Part time up to 40 hrs/week

NHS Tayside seeks to appoint a Locum Paediatric Consultant with an interest in Community Child

Health. Following retirals and vacant sessions within the service, this post has been created with a view

to the continuing development and improvement of existing services. An interest in Neurodevelopmental

assessment and / or Child Protection would be required. While there is potential for this

locum post to become a substantive post in the future, this cannot be guaranteed. If the post becomes

substantive, it will be filled through the usual recruitment process and applicants would need to reapply.

NHS Tayside is supportive of continuous professional development, and all of our posts include 2 PAs

for supporting professional activities (pro-rata).

The successful applicant is likely to be based in Dundee with the expectation that some sessions may be

based throughout Tayside. Existing team members live across the area and a number work between

localities.

You will be joining a supportive, forward thinking team with a broad range of experience and well established

links with other agencies. We have regular team meetings and joint training both within the

wider CCH team and across specialties with our neonatal and general paediatric colleagues. We

welcome applications from doctors wishing to work less than full-time and those wishing to pursue

further training to develop a specialist interest. Interested candidates are encouraged to contact us for

an informal discussion.

NHS Tayside serves a population of 414,130 across three local authorities:
Dundee, Perth and Kinross

and Angus. Paediatrics serves a population of approximately 67,100 children under 16 across Tayside,

with community paediatric bases at Armitstead Child Development Centre in Dundee, Drumhar Health

Centre in Perth and Whitehills Health & Community Care Centre in Forfar, Angus. Some Community

Child Health Services are locality based whilst others are Tayside wide.

Tayside Paediatric Department participates in several regional and national managed clinical networks

facilitating the maintenance of specialist interests for all senior medical and career grade staff.

Tayside paediatric department is committed to teaching undergraduates from Dundee. Resident Doctors

In Training undertaking their paediatric training in the East of Scotland region are based in Dundee and

rotate to Forth Valley and Edinburgh.

Informal enquiries can be made to Dr Jenny Fraser, Clinical Lead for Community Child Health, Whitehills

Health & Community Care Centre [], Dr Joanna Chisholm, Consultant Paediatrician,

Armitstead Child Development Centre [], or Dr Helen Dunne, Clinical Care Group

Director, Consultant Paediatrician, Drumhar Health Centre [].