Job Description
JOB TITLE: Consultant Paediatrician in NELFT Waltham Forest
CONTRACT: 10 Programmed Activities (10 PAs)
Flexible working available
BASE: Wood Street Specialist Children’s Service, Wood Street Health Centre. E17 3LA
This post is a Community Consultant Paediatrician position with interest in neuro-disability in the Waltham Forest Specialist Children Service, based at Wood Street Health Centre, 6 Linford Road, Walthamstow, London, E17 3LA. It is a new post, created as part of Delivering Value agenda. The successful applicant will join our dynamic Community Paediatric team who work within a fully integrated targeted specialist children’s service. The postholder will join a team of 6 other consultants (6.4 WTE), 3 non-consultant colleagues and Paediatric and GP trainees providing integrated care for children seen in neuro-disability and neurodevelopment clinical pathways and within Safeguarding and Children in Care pathways.
Waltham Forest Community Paediatric team is part of a very large community paediatric service delivered across NELFT – covering outer North East London and Essex, composing more than 40 Community Paediatricians. We work collaboratively with our colleagues across the region on service development e.g. on integrated neurodevelopmental paediatric and CAMHS pathways, motor disorders and children in care clinical pathways. We highly value our academic colleagues who hold joint posts with UCL and Cambridge Autism Unit who support innovative practice and research in paediatrics and neurodevelopment. There are close links with the acute paediatric department at Whipps Cross University Hospital (Barts Health Trust) and Royal London Hospital and with Tertiary Service at Great Ormond Street Hospital.
The post holder will be a suitably qualified Consultant Paediatrician with at least 2 years’ experience in community Child health. The post holder will be a GMC registered clinician responsible for patients allocated to them and will assess, manage, plan, and deliver care.
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. They will have a commitment to collaborative working and actively supporting and liaising with other health and social care professionals and agencies.
Main responsibilities:
• To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others’ workload in the day-to-day allocation of work.
• To deputise when required in the team manager’s absence and delegate appropriately to other medical staff.
• To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them.
• To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.
• To 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.
• Provide a high quality, evidence-based, effective, specialist service for children and young people, their carers/parents and families.
• Responsible for assessment, treatment, and systematic outcome measurement in the specialist care pathway
• Contribute to coordination and service development within the community paediatric and targeted service
Clinical Skills:
• To act as an autonomous, registered practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for their own unsupervised actions guided by the professional code of conduct and Trust guidelines and protocols.
• The post holder will have full registration with a licence to practice from the General Medical Council (GMC).
• Further professional knowledge will have been gained through accredited courses, workshops, study, and in-house training programmes.
• To be responsible, and accountable, for service delivery to clients/patients.
• To be able to assess and develop care plans to meet the complex needs of patients with a variety of conditions. This includes chronic, acute, and palliative care within own competencies, recognising own limitations and seeking advice when necessary. This will include continuously evaluating and acting on outcomes.
• To be able to initiate referrals to other health professional specialist services and agencies.
• To provide patients and relatives with information and education thus ensuring they have meaningful choices that promote dignity, independence, and quality of life.
• To ensure practice is supported by research, evidence-based practice, literature, and peer review.
Training & Supervision:
• To act as clinical supervisor to junior colleagues (FY/CT/GPVTS/ST), providing effective education, facilitating their development, and promoting high standards of medical care.
• Ensure junior colleagues are actively supported to enable them to achieve their learning needs.
• To ensure own continued professional development and support a culture of lifelong learning in self and others.
• To undertake, and assist in the planning of, own mandatory training and workshops.
• To undertake a regular appraisal, developing a personal development plan that includes clinical competencies reflecting the health needs of the local population, and relates to Trust strategy.
• To support new staff and their integration within the team.
• To support training as part of the role including changes to professional development and implementation of new policies and guidelines.
Education:
1. To provide in-service training to junior doctor, and other members of the multidisciplinary team.
2. To contribute to the teaching of Medical Students and Trainee Doctors.
3. To engage in Academic Teaching Programme regularly.
Administration:
• To follow good medical practice standards in documenting all assessments of patients and to share necessary information with other health professionals.
• To provide reports on time.
• To ensure that all letters and summaries are checked and sent promptly to referrers, GPs, other colleagues, and agencies.
• The post holder will ensure that accurate and up to date records are kept of all clinical activity.
• The post holder will be expected to have good IT skills and to use the Trust’s electronic case record system.
