COMMUNITY CONSULTANT PAEDIATRICIAN (THURROCK)

Job overview

JOB TITLE:      Consultant Community Pediatrician –

Thurrock - South West Essex

CONTRACT:   10 Programmed Activities (10 PAs)

Substantive

Flexible working available – including job share, part-   time, remote sessions considered

BASE:                Thurrock Community Hospital, Long Lane, Grays, RM16 2PX

Main duties of the job

This is a newly created post following additional funding added to a previous part-time 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 new, substantive, full-time post - 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) post with 7.5 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 2.5 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs).

It is a substantive post and we would consider requests for flexible working, job share or fixed term if preferred.

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

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

There is no on call requirement at night, although the post holder will participate in a daytime on-call rota 9am - 5pm to deliver child protection medical examinations.

The successful candidate will work as part of a fully integrated multidisciplinary specialist team providing care to children and young people with health needs, across Thurrock. The successful applicant will also become part of a large (30+ community paediatricians), dynamic, community paediatric team, across the whole of North East London Foundation Trust.

The successful candidate will provide senior medical support to the team, and direct input on clinical cases, and work closely with 0.8wte Consultant Paediatrician (Dr Kaushik Banerjee), and 1.8wte Specialist Grade Doctor (out to recruitment) in the Team. 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.

There will also be the opportunity for the post holder to further develop links already established with the local acute trusts, in order to continually improve our services. There are close links with the acute paediatric department at Basildon University Hospital.

We have Core Paediatric Trainees from London and Eastern Deanery, with a joint training programme with BHRUT, Basildon, and Whipps Cross Hospital. Medical Students are on placement from Cambridge and Barts and the London Medical Schools including medical students on the innovative “Medicine in Society” module from QMUL.