Locum Consultant Paediatrician (Neuro Developmental Service)

Job overview

Consultant Community Paediatrician for BHR Neurodevelopmental team (Barking & Dagenham, Havering & Redbridge) – Fixed Term 2 Year

Base: Acorn centre, Havering,

The post is for 10 sessions Consultant Paediatrician in the BHR Neurodevelopmental service. The post holder will be a GMC registered clinician responsible for patients allocated to them and will assess, manage, plan, and deliver evidenced based care, including being professionally and legally accountable

Main duties of the job

The post holder will support with clinical and operational leadership as part of a newly established Neurodevelopmental service for children and will support their peers and team leader whilst being an effective team member and working on their own initiative. They will supervise junior colleagues including provision of teaching and training. They will have a commitment to collaborative working and actively supporting and liaising with other health and social care professionals and agencies.

The post holder will contribute as the Consultant Paediatrician in Havering for the BHR Neurodevelopmental service and will work alongside the team of substantive Paediatric and CAMHS consultants. Part of the post-holders’ duties will include service development, service evaluation and applied research.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Main responsibilities:

1.    To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others  workload in the day-to-day allocation of work.

• 2.    To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them, particularly administration of medicine and moving and handling. 3.    To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes. 4.    To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing, and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust register. 5.    The post holder will support the development of the ASD/ADHD service, working alongside the multidisciplinary specialist team. They will contribute towards assessment and relevant investigations and supervising MDT colleagues. They will produce reports to contribute to statutory work including EHC plans. 6.    Leverage opportunities to develop the integrated multidisciplinary Neurodevelopmental service across BHR 7.    Provide a high quality, accessible, timely, efficient, effective, comprehensive and specialist Neurodevelopmental service for children and and young people, their carers/parents and families. 8.    Provide and/or support the provision of evidence-based assessment and clinical management for service users. This will include providing highly specialist assessment and contributing to multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment of children and young people referred to the ASD service.