# Community Paediatric Consultant > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/community-paediatric-consultant/af3f04d9-b1c3-4421-bdb5-a8da1db22a94 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/community-paediatric-consultant/af3f04d9-b1c3-4421-bdb5-a8da1db22a94.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Great Western Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Medical doctor - **Speciality:** Paediatrics - **Grade:** Consultant - **Salary:** £113,565 - £150,569 Per Annum Pro Rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 9 sessions per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-10T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-27T15:21:04.987Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Wiltshire/Swindon/Great_Western_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Community_Paediatrics/Community_Paediatrics-v8173821 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8173821?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.gwh.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Community Paediatric Consultant - Special interest in Safeguarding Permanent Contract - 9 PA (Part Time) This is an exciting new Consultant opportunity to join the Community Paediatric team in Great Western Hospital as a Community Paediatrician with a special interest in Safeguarding. We are looking for an enthusiastic doctor who will be a proactive addition to our workforce, and who is interested in taking the service forward, with our close links with social care and police services as well as the acute paediatric services. We need a Consultant Community Paediatrician who can work collaboratively within GWH and multi-disciplinary partners across Swindon and Wiltshire. We are looking for an enthusiastic doctor who will be a proactive addition to our workforce, and who is interested in taking the service forward, with our close links with our hospital colleague's and tertiary centres in Bristol and Oxford. ### Main duties of the job Community Paediatrics is part of an integrated Paediatric Service. The team currently consists of 4 Consultants, 3 speciality doctors and 3 specialist nurse prescribers. We have a dedicated administrative team who provide excellent support for all aspects of the services we provide. This includes: - Medical services to children looked after (CLA) and those going through adoption - Medical support for children with Special Education Needs - Assessment and support for children with neurodevelopmental needs and neurodisability. - Supporting child protection assessment services We work collaboratively with therapy and education partners from triage to joint planning for care. We undertake robust neurobehavioural assessment in a holistic manner, using tools such as QB tests and E-Conners as well as multidisciplinary social communication assessments. We run regular multisdisciplinary complex movement clinics as well as manage and review children with complex neurodisability and end of life care. For this purpose we work closely with acute epilepsy and respiratory services both in secondary and tertiary centres. We are an early adopter of paperless technologies to increase admin efficiency and reduce paperwork. We would support involvement in formal Quality Improvement projects to support and evidence improvements and as a department continually strive to enhance our service. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Clinical Duties - Multidisciplinary team working is key component of the working within the Trust and involves regular MDT discussions with colleagues - Providing evidence-based care for patients in a multidisciplinary setting. - Continuing responsibility for the care of patients in your charge, including all administrative duties associated with patient care (with secretarial support) - Development of sub specialty interests that fit in with Division needs and the strategic direction of the Trust. - Responsibilities for carrying out teaching, examination and accreditation duties are required, and for contributing to undergraduate and post-graduate and continuing medical education activity. - Provision of cover for Consultant colleagues’ periods of leave in accordance with arrangements agreed within Trust policy. - Participation in clinical audit and in continuing medical education. - Conducting suitable duties in cases of emergencies and unforeseen circumstances. - There are no out of hours on call commitments Please find attached a job description and person specification ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Clinical training/experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT - Expertise in full range of community paediatrics with particular emphasis in autism spectrum disorder and ADHD. - Experience in managing children with complex neurodisabilities - Demonstrate an understanding of the needs of Children who are Look After and being adopted - Experience in multi professional team working - Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical environment ### Qualifications **Essential** - Fully registered with the GMC - MRCPCH (UK) or equivalent - Applicants that are UK trained, must ALSO be a holder of a Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training (CCST), or be within six months of award of CCT by date of interview - Applicants that are non-UK trained, will be required to show evidence of equivalence to the UK CCT ## Documents - [comm paeds jd (pdf, 272.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10479837) - [consultant recruitment pack (pdf, 4.6mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2189) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.