Locum Consultant Community Paediatrician in Islington

Job overview

Whittington Health NHS Trust is seeking an 7 PA Consultant in Community Paediatrics for 6months, pending substantive recruitment.

We are looking for a developmental paediatrician to join our Islington Community Paediatrics Team at the Northern Health Centre, Upper Holloway, London. This post covers a variety of community paediatrics; doing regular developmental paediatrics including an MDT clinic for severe physical disabilities, contributing to the diagnosis of a variety of developmental disorders, covering and conducting clinics in special schools and participating on the Child Protection rota with the Camden community consultant team. It would be ideal if the applicant can cover the Named Dr role for Safeguarding, but this is not mandatory.

Islington has a team of Community Paediatricians, and the successful applicant will be working closely with the team at Northern Health Centre. There is some flexibility to accommodate special interests and opportunities exist for developing clinical interests.

Main duties of the job

Please see the full Job Description and the Person Specification for further details about the job role.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Duties of the post

Summary outline:

• 1.     Special School clinics 1 per week 2.     Neurodevelopmental clinics 3 community clinics per month, one multi-disciplinary clinic for children with conditions significantly affecting their posture and movement who are not (yet) in special needs schools and one clinic a month in ADHD service working together with another consultant 3.     ASD diagnostic clinic (1PA)– to be part of the Social Communication Team and participate in the MDT diagnostic process. 4.     CP second on call (0.25 PA)  2 hours per call, the CP on call is fortnightly  on Fridays 5.     SPA (1.25 PA) CPD, this includes departmental meetings, CP peer review, mandatory training and own appraisal 6.     Lead for training of junior doctors and medical students (0.25PA) 7.     Named doctor for safeguarding – if this role is taken up, it is 2PA. There will then be less community clinic per month

Please see the attached job description for full details.