Consultant Community Paediatrician

Job overview

Join Us as a Consultant Community Paediatrician – Shape the Future of Children’s Services

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is excited to invite applications for a Consultant Community Paediatrician to join our dynamic team at the Kaleidoscope Children’s Centre in Lewisham. We are looking for a compassionate, inclusive clinician who shares our values and is committed to delivering outstanding care.

This newly created post offers a unique opportunity to support our newly redesigned initial assessment neurodevelopmental pathway aiming to reduce the waiting time for autism assessment. You will play a pivotal role in shaping early intervention and improving outcomes for young children and their families.

You’ll be joining at a transformational time, as we redesign our clinical pathways to reduce waiting times and enhance patient experience. Your expertise will directly contribute to service innovation and improved access to care.

What we offer:

• A supportive, multidisciplinary team including 9 Consultant Community Paediatricians, SAS doctors, a Specialty Doctor, senior therapists, and clinical nurse specialists
• No overnight or CSA medical commitments
• Participation in the daytime child protection rota
• A chance to lead and influence service development in a high-impact role

If you're ready to make a meaningful difference and help shape the future of community paediatrics, we’d love to hear from you.

Please note JD is pending RCP approval

Main duties of the job

This is a new post with a special interest in autism and social communication disorders. This role will have a lead within the communication clinic for diagnosis for the under 5-year-old group.

There is no overnight commitment. The postholders will contribute to the daytime child protection rota, but there is no expectation to contribute to Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA) medicals.

The postholder will join a team of 9 Consultant Community Paediatricians, 2 community SAS doctors and one Speciality Doctor. Senior therapists and clinical nurse specialist also contribute to assessments and care for young people.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical Responsibilities:

The post holder will work in all aspects of Community Paediatrics, suited to their experience and competencies and the priorities of service provision.

The post holder will undertake assessment and management of children with neurodevelopmental concerns and safeguarding.

Undertake neurodevelopmental assessments including for Autism and Social Communication Disorders.

Participate in the consultant-led Child Protection rota.

Undertake health assessments for Looked After Children and provide written reports as appropriate.

Support and advice colleagues in the clinical assessment and care of children and young people, whilst being clear about others personal clinical professional accountability.

Provision of supervision to trainees and specialist doctors and extended members of the clinical team including clinical nurse specialists and AHPs.

General responsibilities

To participate in clinical supervision and continuing professional development of both career and training grade medical staff

To work with Community Paediatric services and Children’s Community Services Directorate to meet service commitments and needs of children and families.

To develop care pathways across the acute and community services

To participate in the development of Specialist Child Health Services in collaboration with other members of the management team

To support the collection of relevant information on the work of the medical team, detailing the work of the service for stakeholders.

Medical Education & Teaching:

To take part in clinical and educational supervision of post graduate trainees.

To participate in the medical student training programme.

To plan and deliver training for GP trainees and other post-graduate teaching.

Contribute to the delivery of training for health staff and inter-agency training.

To liaise with other agencies on clinical and operational matters relevant to the work of the service.

Provide advice and signposting to other professionals about legal processes, key research and policy documents.

Liaise with professional leads from other agencies, such as Education and Children’s Social care.

Clinical Audit and Clinical Governance:

Participate in clinical audit, incident reporting and analysis and to ensure resulting actions are implemented.

Work closely with the Directorate, Patient and Public Involvement panels in relation to clinical and services developments as delegated.

Participate in ensuring NICE requirements are reviewed and implemented and monitored in the speciality areas.

Continuing Professional Development:

Attend relevant local, regional, and national continuing professional development activities to maintain competence.

Meet the organisation’s requirements for training attendance.

Receive regular clinical supervision and undertake reflective supervision

Clinical Audit and Clinical Governance:

Participate in clinical audit, incident reporting and analysis and to ensure resulting actions are implemented.

Work closely with the Directorate, Patient and Public Involvement panels in relation to clinical and services developments as delegated.

Participate in ensuring NICE requirements are reviewed and implemented and monitored in the speciality areas.

To ensure clinical guidelines and protocols are adhered to by medical staff and updated on a regular basis.

Review clinical outcomes in designated area using external benchmarking data where appropriate, to identify and advise variances to the Clinical Director.

To keep fully informed about best practice in the speciality areas and ensure implications for practice changes are discussed with the Clinical Director.

To role model good practice for infection control to all members of the multidisciplinary team.

Continuing Professional Development:

Attend relevant local, regional, and national continuing professional development activities to maintain competence.

Meet the organisation’s requirements for training attendance.

Receive regular supervision and undertake reflective practice.

Policy, Planning and Management:

Support the Trust to deliver quality patient care Contribute to the development of clinical and organisational protocols and guidelines

Assist in the development of the Annual Service Plan for the Directorate and Division and participate in the strategic planning of the service Comply with all Trust policies