Specialty Doctor in Community Child Health

Job overview

Thank you for your interest in the post of Specialty Grade Doctor Community Child Health – Named Doctor for Looked after Children .

We are always keen to welcome highly skilled, committed and compassionate individuals  – people who put patients at the heart of everything they do and are ready to help us achieve our vision.

We’ve taken great pride in building working environments where staff always feel valued, cared for and part of a team. Without doubt this is a challenging yet very rewarding job that is at the centre of health and care in Lincolnshire - making a positive difference to our patients.

The Named Doctor for Children in Care (Looked After Children) is expected to fulfil the competencies and role descriptions provided in the Intercollegiate Document Looked After Children: roles and competencies for healthcare staff, published by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) on behalf of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) in December 2020.

This job description has been formulated using the Intercollegiate Document and describes the competencies outlined for those working at Level 4 as Named Professionals. The number of Programmed Activities available for this role has been calculated based on the population of Children in Care in line with the recommendations stated in the Intercollegiate Document.

This post would not meet the minimum threshold to attract sponsorship

Main duties of the job

This post holder will hold the statutory role of Named Doctor for Children in Care (Looked After Children) on behalf of Lincolnshire Community Health Services Trust.

The Named Doctor works in partnership with the Named Nurse for Safeguarding and Associate Director Safeguarding & Statutory Services to:

• Develop strong internal Children in Care policies, guidelines, and protocols.
• Support the management and quality assurance of statutory health assessments.
• Stimulate the awareness of the health needs of this client group, influencing policies that affect health and the facilitation of health enhancing activities.
• Effectively communicate Children in Care knowledge, research and findings from audits, challenge poor practice and address areas where there is an identified training/development opportunity.
• Facilitate and contribute to internal and multi-agency audits, and statutory inspections.
• Conduct Children in Care training needs analysis, and to commission, plan, design, deliver and evaluate single and inter-agency training and teaching for staff within the Trust.
• Support the delivery of Initial Health Assessment (IHA) clinics and work with the Named Nurse to ensure continuous quality improvement. Provide specialist advice and supervision to staff who have direct contact with Children in Care and Care Leavers.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further details regarding the job role please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.