Consultant Paediatrician | NELFT NHS Foundation Trust

Job Title

Consultant Paediatrician

10 Programmed Activities (10 PAs) – Full Time. Flexible working available.

Base:
The Grove, Grove Road, Chadwell Heath (Redbridge) RM6 4XH

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.

Job Description Pending Royal College Approval

• Support with clinical and operational leadership as part of a newly established Neurodevelopmental service for children, and support peers and team leader while being an effective team member and working on own initiative.
• Supervise junior colleagues including provision of teaching and training.
• Commit to collaborative working and actively support and liaise with other health and social care professionals and agencies.
• Work alongside the team of substantive Paediatric and CAMHS consultants in Redbridge for the BHR Neurodevelopmental service.
• Provide senior medical support to the team, with direct input on clinical cases.
• Guide and supervise the team, work directly with babies, children, and young people (and their families), and liaise with external health providers and acute hospitals.
• Play a role in service development, service evaluation and applied research.
• Support the development of the Autism/ADHD service, working alongside the multidisciplinary specialist team; contribute towards assessment and relevant investigations and supervising MDT colleagues; produce reports to contribute to statutory work including EHC plans.
• Leverage opportunities to develop the integrated multidisciplinary Neurodevelopmental service across BHR.
• Provide a high quality, accessible, timely, efficient, effective, comprehensive and specialist Neurodevelopmental service for children and young people, their carers/parents, and families.
• Support the provision of evidence‑based assessment and clinical management for service users, including highly specialist assessment and contributing to multidisciplinary assessment and treatment of children and young people referred to the Autism service.
• Be responsible for assessment, treatment, and systemic outcome measurement in the specialist care pathway.
• Contribute to coordination and service development within the Neurodevelopmental service.
• Manage waiting list within specialist care pathway and ensure waiting lists are at clinically safe level; prioritise resources in line with clinical needs.
• Develop links with Tertiary and local acute trusts (King George Hospital, Ilford; Queens Hospital, Romford; Royal London, Great Ormond Street Hospital) to deliver specialist services within the community.
• Organise and prioritise own and others’ workload in the day‑to‑day allocation of work.
• Deputise when required in the team manager’s absence and delegate appropriately to other medical staff.
• Have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them.
• Provide accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.
• Ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing, and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust’s risk register.

• We are kind.
• We are respectful.
• We work with our communities.

GMC registered clinician. Royal College approval pending. (No further qualifications specified in the posting.)

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