Job Description
Acute Consultant Pediatrician
CAMHS Eating Disorder Team
1 Year Fixed Term
0.2 Programmed Activities (2 PAs)
Thurrock Community Hospital
Salary £109, 725 - £145, 478
This is a replacement post following previous Consultant leaving the post. A lot of transformation has taken place already and continues to take place in Essex’s Community Children and Young People’s Services. This post is currently vacant, and we wish to recruit to this post as soon as possible.
This is a one year fixed term, part-time - 2 Programmed Activities (PAs) with protected 0.25 PA for Continuous Professional Development and we are happy to explore part-time or flexible roles. This post would be suitable as an additional role for an existing Consultant in Acute Paediatric working in other roles within Essex; alternatively this could be a standalone post.
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a community based SET CAMHS Eating Disorder Service covering the county of Essex. The job is based at Widford Hall, Tattersall Way, Chelmsford, Essex CM2 STD.
The expectation of the post holder is to support their teams, the Directorate and the organisation to follow the Trust’s Values in their day-to-day work.
- We are kind
- We are respectful
- We work with our communities
As the service is exclusively an outpatient service, the post holder will not hold an inpatient case load, but the post holder will work with the local acute Trusts and mental health/specialist eating disorder inpatient units where patients are admitted to aid smooth transition to different levels of care. This will consist of attending, where appropriate, CPA meetings, transfer of care meetings, advising and planning the delivery of community care package upon patient's discharge.
The post holder will not be expected to act as a primary case holder of a group of patients but will largely be contributing in providing paediatric clinical advice and liaison to the cases held within the team as a whole.
The post holder will be expected to attend and participate in MDT team meetings and will be responsible for offering consultation to the team on the physical monitoring and well-being of young people open under the ED team, advice on any necessary physical investigation, reviews of investigation results (blood tests, ECG and others as indicated). The successful candidate will work closely with the dietician, nurses, psychiatrist in the team and advice them on the basis of his paediatric expertise including when NG feeding or admission for refeeding might need to be considered as part of the intervention.
There will be an expectation the successful candidate will help developing good links with the acute and community pediatric colleagues in Essex.
The post-holder will have access to office space; agile working devices will be provided which will enable the post holder to work from different Trust sites; there will be pro-rata equivalent of 0.5 WTE Band 4 PA (the allocation for a full time consultant). There are no trainee doctors attached to this team although we would like to develop opportunities with the local paediatric community teams, GP and psychiatric training scheme providers to offer training opportunities within the team.
The post does not include external duties.
The post holder will be line managed by the locality Associate Medical Director (AMO) for Essex. The post holder's Prescribed Connection will be to NELFT for Medical Appraisal and Revalidation purposes.
On-call responsibilities:
No out of hours on call duties.
We currently have one Paediatric higher trainees in Essex. We have applied for CAMHS higher trainee posts with one already in post. There are opportunities for teaching both in terms of clinical work and curriculum delivery. Although this post does not currently have any attached training post there is due to be expansion to both core and CAMHS higher training numbers in Essex and we would welcome consultants who are educational supervisors or who wish to undertake training and apply to have training post(s) in Essex.
1.2 Main responsibilities
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.
Clinical Skills:
- To act as an autonomous, registered practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for 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 on 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.
Leadership:
- To participate in the development of an effective team and the development of productive working relationships throughout the Trust.
- To actively promote professional integrated health working, internally and externally.
- To facilitate the development of a positive and supportive team culture by taking responsibility for dealing effectively with potential conflict.
- To take an active interest in working parties and groups within the Trust to develop and improve on service delivery, protocols, and guidelines.
- To participate in the audit process, linking in with the clinical governance agenda.
- To advise, encourage and share knowledge utilising the latest research and practice development, through literature and peer reviews.
- Support the AMD in strategic service development and business planning.
- Lead compassionately on the evolution of services.
- Engage patients and staff in the development of services.
Communication:
- To have a wide range of knowledge in approaches to communicating and managing patient care.
- To be able to effectively communicate with colleagues, peers, senior managers, and clinical leads within the Trust.
- To be able to communicate complex patient related information facilitating positive outcomes and ensuring collaborative working.
- Participate in the review and development of clinical policies and identifies improvements to service provision.
Who to contact for informal inquiries:
Medical Director: Dr Manjari Tanwar Manjari.Tanwar@nelft.nhs.uk
Associate Medical Director: Dr Viviana Porcari Vivana.Porcari@nelft.nhs.uk
