Job overview

We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Consultant Paediatrician with a Special Interest in Neurology to join our General Paediatrics team within the Children’s Directorate at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust.

This is a full-time, 10 programmed activity post working across Queen’s Hospital and King George Hospital. The successful candidate will combine general paediatric and urgent care responsibilities with specialist paediatric neurology work, supporting children and young people with epilepsy and other neurological conditions.

The post offers an opportunity to join and further develop an established paediatric neurology service that works closely with Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Royal London Hospital. The local service includes first seizure, follow-up/headache and transitional epilepsy clinics, supported by neurophysiology, radiology and an epilepsy nurse specialist.

We are looking for an inclusive, compassionate and collaborative consultant with strong general paediatric experience, appropriate tertiary neurology experience and a commitment to high-quality clinical care, education, governance, audit, quality improvement and service development.

Main duties of the job

Consultant Paediatrician with Special Interest In Neurology

The successful candidate will provide consultant-led general paediatric and specialist neurology care across Queen’s Hospital and King George Hospital. Key responsibilities will include:

·     -  Participating in the general paediatric consultant rota, including inpatient ward cover, urgent and ambulatory care, outpatient activity and out-of-hours/on-call responsibilities.

·       -Providing consultant input to the Children’s Emergency Department, Children and Young People’s Assessment Unit, hot clinics and general paediatric wards.

·    - Supporting effective patient flow, timely review and discharge, and the prevention of avoidable hospital admissions.

·      - Assessing and managing children and young people with epilepsy, first seizures, headaches and other neurological conditions.

·       -Contributing to first seizure, follow-up/headache and transitional epilepsy clinics.

·    -  Providing specialist advice for children admitted with epilepsy-related or other neurological presentations.

·      - Working closely with the epilepsy nurse specialist, neurophysiology, radiology, adult neurology and tertiary paediatric neurology services.

·     - Supporting children, young people and their families through clear clinical advice, education and ongoing care planning.

-Contributing to teaching, clinical governance, audit, quality improvement, appraisal and service development.

Working for our organisation

We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with. 

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission. 

We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care. 

We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance. 

We run a Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.  

The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

Some of the positive changes we’ve made are captured in this film.