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Job summary

Main area
Paediatrics
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 10 sessions per week
Job ref
356-26-8344875
Employer
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Hull Royal Infirmary
Town
Hull
Salary
£113,565 - £150,569 PA PR
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
03/11/2026 23:59

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Consultant Paediatrician Safeguarding and Child Death

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Job overview

The post holder will be appointed as a Consultant Paediatrician with primary responsibility for providing senior clinical leadership and supervision within the Paediatric Assessment Unit (PAU) and Safeguarding unit (Anlaby suite).

Key clinical duties include:

·         The post holder will be the lead SUDIC paediatrician and support the Joint agency response

·         Work with the Independent CDOP Chair, review and provide strategic and professional leadership across the health economy in relation to the child death overview process.

·         They will contribute to the development of local multiagency policy and procedures including training relating to the child death overview process and provide advice, as appropriate, to the ICBs and NHS providers in relation to the development of health specific policies.

·         They will have some flexible sessions providing overall consultant supervision to the PAU including twilight shifts, supported by a middle-grade doctor and Tier 1 resident doctor. Overtime as the service stabilises there will be oncall commitments and the option for acute consultant of the week supporting the General Paediatric service

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Main duties of the job

·         This post comprises 8 Programmed Activities (PAs).

·         1.5PA Supporting Professional Activity (SPA) is allocated, covering professional development, teaching, audit, and governance.

·         An indicative job plan will be provided; however, this may evolve in line with organisational vision, service development, and population needs.

·         The timetable can be flexible and may be adapted to reflect the appointee’s special interests and expertise, subject to service requirements and future funding availability.

·         The job plan will be formally reviewed six months after appointment to ensure that the allocation of PAs appropriately reflects the responsibilities of the post.

·         There is an intention for this role to evolve with service development with potential amendments to the job plan in the future.

·         The post holder will contribute to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, including the training and supervision of junior doctors and other healthcare professionals.

·         Participation in educational supervision and clinical supervision of trainees is expected, subject to appropriate accreditation .

Working for our organisation

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further details regarding this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person specification

Professional Registration

Essential criteria
  • • On the GMC’s Specialist Register OR within six months of CCT at time of scheduled interview
  • • Portfolio Pathway (formerly CESR) applicants must be on the Specialist Register at the point of application
  • • Valid BLS Training
Desirable criteria
  • • Valid NLS and APLS

Qualifications and Training

Essential criteria
  • • MRCPCH(UK) or equivalent qualification
  • • Valid APLS certificate
  • • Valid level3 safeguarding training
Desirable criteria
  • • Postgraduate qualification in Education or significant experience in post graduate training

Clinical Experience

Essential criteria
  • • Ability to offer sound clinical opinion on range of acute paediatric medical conditions
  • • Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
  • • Be clinically active in the field of safeguarding/child protection, as part of their clinical commitments
  • Previous experience of multiagency child death review processes
Desirable criteria
  • • Ability to lead on complex safeguarding cases, including cases of Fabricated and Inducted Illness
  • • Ability to provide and/or experience of leading consultant level safeguarding supervision
  • • Ambulatory care training
  • • Knowledge of advance safeguarding –Valid level 4 safeguarding

Management and Administration Experience

Essential criteria
  • • Ability to manage and lead medical/surgical teams
  • • Ability to lead on smooth and efficient running of a busy clinical unit
  • • Ability to organise, prioritise and manage high intensity workload
  • • In-depth understanding of RCPCH guidelines: Sudden unexpected death in infancy and child-hood (2016)
  • • Experience of writing child protection medical reports, police statements and court statements
Desirable criteria
  • • Ability to develop, present and operationalise coherent ideas for service development/ delivery

Teaching, Audit and Research

Essential criteria
  • • Experience of supervising junior medical staff
  • • Commitment to formal and informal teaching of medical staff, AHPs and medical students
  • • Evidence of participation in audit
  • • Ability to extrapolate clinical research evidence to care for individual patients
Desirable criteria
  • • Evidence of having conducted a practice-changing audit
  • • Experience of teaching/ training in clinical courses e.g. IMPACT Course, Faculty, ALS Instructor, ALERT Instructor
  • • Original peer-reviewed research publications

Personal Attributes

Essential criteria
  • • Ability to work flexibly in a changing health service
  • • Excellent manner with patients, being sensitive to their needs and fears
  • • Ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GPs, Nurses and other health professionals and flex style as appropriate
  • • Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional and national levels
Desirable criteria
  • • Ability to communicate effectively with external agencies and other disciplines

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Sandhya Jose
Job title
Consultant
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01482468200
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