Resident Consultant in General Paediatrics

Job overview

West London Children’s Healthcare (WLCH) are pleased to invite applications for one full time (10PA) Resident Paediatric Medicine Consultant post based on the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital campus.

On 1st April 2022, paediatric and child health services across Chelsea & Westminster NHS Foundation Trust and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust came together under a single and integrated governance and leadership structure creating WLCH.

We have an ambitious vision to improve the health and wellbeing of children and young people across West London through collaboration of clinical teams and by building stronger, equitable common care pathways with close links to research and education colleagues at Imperial College.

WLCH runs paediatric services from four sites, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, West Middlesex, Hammersmith Hospital and St Mary’s Hospital. In addition, we are working in partnership with other acute providers in NWL and with our partners in community, mental health, local borough and voluntary sector services to improve care for all children and young people.

Main duties of the job

This post is a full time, 10PA, post mainly based at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. The clinical component of the role is made up of attending weeks (on the paediatric wards or HDU), resident nights in the Paediatric Emergency Department and outpatient clinics. Outpatient clinics maybe general paediatrics or in a speciality that complement the existing service (including, but not limited to, epilepsy, diabetes, endocrine or allergy).

The consultant body provides 24 hour a day access an onsite consultant paediatrician to provide safe and effective care to children and young people across Paediatrics. The successful candidate will work a shift-based rota and will be resident on the Paediatric Emergency Department at night (1 in 6).

Overnight the resident consultant is responsible all children in the PED, for the shift management, supervising the PED SHOs in their decisions, and ensuring the department is performing to meet the required indicators.

Applicants would be expected, as part of the team, to be actively involved in training, clinical governance and quality improvement.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to our detailed job description for more information.

The job description gives a general outline of the duties of the post and is not intended to be inflexible or a finite list of tasks.  It may be varied from time to time after consultation with the post holder and in particular during regular job plan review where the strategic direction of the Trust or its constituent departments requires it