# Designated Doctor for Looked after Children > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/designated-doctor-for-looked-after-children/d38583ba-0b2d-4ee4-8ce8-1ee2b6341f66 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/designated-doctor-for-looked-after-children/d38583ba-0b2d-4ee4-8ce8-1ee2b6341f66.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board - **Location:** Gail House - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Medical doctor - **Speciality:** Paediatrics - **Grade:** Consultant - **Salary:** £162,292 pro rata per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 1 session per week (equivalent to 4 hours p/w) - **Closing date:** 2026-10-22T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-14T11:07:15.197Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Kent/Maidstone/NHS_Kent_Medway_Integrated_Care_Board/Looked_After_Children/Looked_After_Children-v8341440 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8341440?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.kentandmedway.icb.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The Designated Doctor for Looked After Children provides senior clinical leadership, strategic advice and medical expertise to the ICB in fulfilling its responsibilities as commissioner of services for looked after children and care leavers. You'll provide expert advice to the ICB, Corporate Parenting Board, commissioners, health providers, children's social care and other partner organisations, ensuring that the health needs of looked after children are appropriately considered within commissioning, service planning and quality assurance. You'll provide expert clinical advice on health assessments, health plans, out-of-area placements, medical confidentiality, consent and information sharing, while supporting health professionals to deliver high-quality services to looked after children and young people. The role provides strategic oversight of quality, performance, audit, training and clinical governance, ensuring that statutory requirements, national guidance and clinical standards are embedded across commissioned services. You'll contribute to the development of clinical pathways, policies, service specifications and models of care, using clinical data, research and audit findings to identify areas for improvement. ### Main duties of the job - Provide expert advice on individual cases and policy matters to statutory and voluntary agencies, including children's social care and the police. - Work with children's services and health providers to ensure appropriate healthcare arrangements for children placed outside the local area. - Provide advice on commissioning, service planning, quality standards, performance indicators and the quality of health services for looked after children. - Monitor the performance and quality of health services for looked after children and young people across the health community. - Provide expert clinical advice to social care, health organisations, residential children's homes, foster carers, school nurses, clinicians undertaking health assessments and other health professionals. - Provide advice on training needs and contribute to the delivery of training and education for health professionals working with looked after children. - Provide case-focused clinical support, advice and supervision to health staff and ensure appropriate supervision arrangements are in place for specialist LAC professionals. - Work collaboratively with designated LAC professionals, safeguarding leads, health providers, local authorities, education, police, primary care and voluntary sector partners. - Ensure the voice and lived experience of looked after children and care leavers informs clinical practice, commissioning and service development. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this. Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert. We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know so they can help you with this. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate. ### 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 ### Attributes **Essential** - Able to act as a senior clinical advocate for looked after children and effectively challenge colleagues across health and social care regarding the health and wellbeing of looked after children. - In-depth knowledge of relevant local, regional, national and international policies relating to looked after children, together with a sound understanding of the legal processes underpinning care planning, adoption planning and related statutory processes, including SEND. - Able to develop, implement and evaluate quality assurance measures and processes and use evidence, research and learning to inform improvement. - Able to lead and participate in training needs analysis, teach and educate health professionals and multi-agency partners, and ensure effective consultation and participation of looked after children, young people and service users in service planning and delivery. - Able to provide clear policy advice and work effectively across management, clinical and strategic roles within the Corporate Parenting Partnership and across organisational boundaries. ### Competencies **Essential** - Evidence of leading implementation of national guidelines and auditing the effectiveness and quality of services against relevant quality standards. - Evidence of using data from multiple sources to understand service requirements and inform the development of policies, strategies, services and plans. - Evidence of effective strategic working with service planners, commissioners and providers to ensure the health needs of looked after children are appropriately addressed, including children placed outside the local area. - Evidence of using a risk-based approach to improve outcomes for looked after children. ### Personal Values **Essential** - Commitment to the principles of public life, NHS values, the NHS People Plan and ICB values - Demonstrates a collaborative approach across organisational and sector boundaries. ### Qualifications and Experience **Essential** - Holds consultant status in a provider organisation or a senior post with equivalent training and experience, and is currently working in community paediatrics. - Has received higher clinical/professional training in paediatrics and adolescent health. - Has substantial clinical experience of working with looked after children. ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 152.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10665650) - [staff privacy notice (pdf, 616.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2860) - [a guide to completing your application (pdf, 296.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2856) ## 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.