Consultant Community Paediatrician

Job overview

We are looking for a committed clinician to join the team of paediatric staff providing integrated Community Services to children and young people across Suffolk.

The post-holder should have wide experience in all aspects of Community Paediatrics. The post-holder will work within the community paediatric team in East Suffolk and liaise with services within a geographical cluster.

We have extremely good working relationships with Nursing and Allied Health Professionals as well as Consultant colleagues at West Suffolk Hospital and with Education and Social Care staff. We also work as part of a wider paediatric community medical team, with our colleagues in the east locality. The Trust aims to provide equitable community paediatric services across the whole of the county. The provider for the service is led directly by West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust but within an Alliance framework with partners.

Please See Full Job Description attached for details.

Main duties of the job

• Responsibility for the assessment and management of children referred with neuro-developmental problems from a geographical area including the participation in multi-disciplinary assessment where appropriate
• Management of children and young people with long term neuro-disability such as cerebral palsy. The post holder would be encouraged to develop the movement clinic for consideration of botulinum injections to children with cerebral palsy working closely with the orthopaedic team.
• Assessment of school aged children with suspected autism spectrum disorder following a multidisciplinary triage process
• Provision of medical advice for Education Health and Care Plans for children under our care.
• Assessment of children where there are safeguarding concerns raised by other Health or Educational professionals, Police and Social Services. The post-holder will be expected to be experienced in safeguarding assessment.
• Initial Health Assessments for looked after children
• Clinical and educational supervision of trainees and medical students working within the Child Health Department.
• Providing clear standards, encouraging high quality care, with encouragement of audit and fully participating in the clinical governance arrangements of the Trust
• The post-holder will be based at St Helen’s House in Ipswich, with the potential for some peripheral clinics based in Stowmarket.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Children and Family Services contracts are commissioned by Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board for the East and West of the County. Integrated Community Paediatric Services provide care to the children in Suffolk and are managed by the Associate Director of Integrated Community Paediatric Services.

The integrated community paediatric services include community paediatricians, paediatric physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, children's community nurses, clinical psychologists, audiologists and other associated allied health professionals and administrative staff.

The services are based at Bury St Edmunds and Ipswich providing services throughout the West and East of the county respectively.

Community Paediatric Services work in partnership with Suffolk County Councils Children and Young Peoples Services, who employ the universal children and family services (health visiting and school nursing) to support children and young people in Suffolk.

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.