Job requirements
Essential
23 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Clinical Experience
Ability to offer sound clinical opinion on range of acute paediatric medical conditions
- Clinical Experience
Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
- Clinical Experience
Be clinically active in the field of safeguarding/child protection, as part of their clinical commitments
- Clinical Experience
Previous experience of multiagency child death review processes
- Personal Attributes
Ability to work flexibly in a changing health service
- Personal Attributes
Excellent manner with patients, being sensitive to their needs and fears
- Personal Attributes
Ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GPs, Nurses and other health professionals and flex style as appropriate
- Personal Attributes
Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional and national levels
- Professional Registration
On the GMC’s Specialist Register OR within six months of CCT at time of scheduled interview
- Professional Registration
Portfolio Pathway (formerly CESR) applicants must be on the Specialist Register at the point of application
- Professional Registration
Valid BLS Training
- Qualifications and Training
MRCPCH(UK) or equivalent qualification
- Qualifications and Training
Valid APLS certificate
- Qualifications and Training
Valid level3 safeguarding training
- Teaching, Audit and Research
Experience of supervising junior medical staff
- Teaching, Audit and Research
Commitment to formal and informal teaching of medical staff, AHPs and medical students
- Teaching, Audit and Research
Evidence of participation in audit
- Teaching, Audit and Research
Ability to extrapolate clinical research evidence to care for individual patients
- Management and Administration Experience
Ability to manage and lead medical/surgical teams
- Management and Administration Experience
Ability to lead on smooth and efficient running of a busy clinical unit
- Management and Administration Experience
Ability to organise, prioritise and manage high intensity workload
- Management and Administration Experience
In-depth understanding of RCPCH guidelines: Sudden unexpected death in infancy and child-hood (2016)
- Management and Administration Experience
Experience of writing child protection medical reports, police statements and court statements
Desirable
11 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Clinical Experience
Ability to lead on complex safeguarding cases, including cases of Fabricated and Inducted Illness
- Clinical Experience
Ability to provide and/or experience of leading consultant level safeguarding supervision
- Clinical Experience
Ambulatory care training
- Clinical Experience
Knowledge of advance safeguarding –Valid level 4 safeguarding
- Personal Attributes
Ability to communicate effectively with external agencies and other disciplines
- Professional Registration
Valid NLS and APLS
- Qualifications and Training
Postgraduate qualification in Education or significant experience in post graduate training
- Teaching, Audit and Research
Evidence of having conducted a practice-changing audit
- Teaching, Audit and Research
Experience of teaching/ training in clinical courses e.g. IMPACT Course, Faculty, ALS Instructor, ALERT Instructor
- Teaching, Audit and Research
Original peer-reviewed research publications
- Management and Administration Experience
Ability to develop, present and operationalise coherent ideas for service development/ delivery
Job overview
- The post holder will be the lead SUDIC paediatrician and support the Joint agency response
- Work with the Independent CDOP Chair, review and provide strategic and professional leadership across the health economy in relation to the child death overview process.
- They will contribute to the development of local multiagency policy and procedures including training relating to the child death overview process and provide advice, as appropriate, to the ICBs and NHS providers in relation to the development of health specific policies.
- They will have some flexible sessions providing overall consultant supervision to the PAU including twilight shifts, supported by a middle-grade doctor and Tier 1 resident doctor. Overtime as the service stabilises there will be oncall commitments and the option for acute consultant of the week supporting the General Paediatric service
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Main duties of the job
- This post comprises 8 Programmed Activities (PAs).
- 1.5PA Supporting Professional Activity (SPA) is allocated, covering professional development, teaching, audit, and governance.
- An indicative job plan will be provided; however, this may evolve in line with organisational vision, service development, and population needs.
- The timetable can be flexible and may be adapted to reflect the appointee’s special interests and expertise, subject to service requirements and future funding availability.
- The job plan will be formally reviewed six months after appointment to ensure that the allocation of PAs appropriately reflects the responsibilities of the post.
- There is an intention for this role to evolve with service development with potential amendments to the job plan in the future.
- The post holder will contribute to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, including the training and supervision of junior doctors and other healthcare professionals.
- Participation in educational supervision and clinical supervision of trainees is expected, subject to appropriate accreditation .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details regarding this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached 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.
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This advert is for Consultant Paediatrician Safeguarding and Child Death with Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in Cottingham, England. It is listed as a Consultant Medical doctor Paediatrics role. The advertised salary is £113,565 - £150,569 PA PR. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 03 Nov 2026.
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