Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatrics - Community
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
- Contract
- Locum: 6 months
- Hours
- Part time - 8 sessions per week (Mon - Fri)
- Job ref
- 391-NMUH-8309215
- Employer
- Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Edgware Community Hospital
- Town
- Edgware
- Salary
- £113,565 - £150,569 Per Annum (pro rata) +£2,162 London Weighting
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/10/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Locum Consultant Community Paediatrician
NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
Our trust has over 17,000 staff serving 2 million patients every year. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital, North Middlesex University Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.
Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.
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Job overview
This post is offered at 8PA per week, and will comprise a mixture of clinical work, including multi-professional and MDT community paediatric clinics at hospital-based clinics, special schools, and other community-based settings, work in the department’s Fostering and Adoption Child Health Service, and the Designated Doctor role in the Child Death Overview Panel.
This post is mainly based at Edgware Community hospital, but with clinical commitments at other sites across Barnet.
The successful candidate will be required to contribute to multidisciplinary meetings, governance meetings and processes, teaching, and other departmental meetings. It is expected that Consultants within the team will provide supervision and support to Resident Doctors and other locally employed Junior medical staffing across the Edgware Community Hospital site, and wherein patients have been admitted to one of the following acute hospital sites, and require input from the Community team:
• Barnet & Chase Farm Health Unit
• Royal Free Health Unit
The Barnet Child Development team is an enthusiastic and innovative team looking at ways to redefine the way they work in a changing NHS climate, facing the challenges of providing the very best of clinical care in a community setting. It is well supported by an experienced team of therapists employed by partner NHS organisations and has good cross-agency relationships.
Main duties of the job
Duties & Responsibilities:
The following is not an exhaustive or exclusive list of the duties of a consultant within Paediatrics The appointee to this post is required to:
- Provide senior clinician services to Community Paediatric services as per job plan or as agreed within the Trust.
- Work with consultant colleagues and other staff to ensure efficient use of Trust’s resources and contribute actively to clinical governance in the department and to development of quality enhancement projects in the unit.
- Show flexibility and undertake different appropriate clinical tasks within allocated DCC sessions at the request of the clinical manager, as the need arises.
- Actively participate in the Unit’s Teaching Programme and undertake supervision, teaching and training of medical trainees and other multi-professional staff, in line with guidance from the relevant Royal Colleges or specialty bodies.
- Actively participate in clinical guidelines development, audit, and CPD.
Working for our organisation
Our principles:
- We respect the rights of babies, children, and young people, and aim to provide a safe and healthy environment for them within the department.
- We see children as children first, recognising their changing needs and abilities as they become older, rather than as a disease process or problem.
- We encourage parents and children to be actively involved in the care provided.
- We aim to work in partnership with the family and the general practitioner to provide as much care as possible at home.
- We respect the individual racial, linguistic, religious, and cultural background of each child.
- All members of the department aim to work in a multidisciplinary way
Our Aims:
- To provide fast and effective communication with families and General Practitioners via the telephone, patient information sheets, and timely and effective communication.
- To provide a high standard of care, facilitated by the use of guidelines, which are regularly upgraded, and evidence based.
- For a situation where all members of our staff are engaged in continuing professional development with regular appraisal and personal development plans
- For a climate of constant innovation underpinned by research and audit.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Notional Job Plan –
1) Child Development clinics (incl. Down
syndrome, complex neurodisabilities &
Special schools) 4 pa (84 clinics)
2) Lead Dr for Child Death Overview Panel 1 pa
3) Supervising Safeguarding Medicals 1 pa
4) Supporting LAC work within dept (AH forms) 1 pa
5) SPA 1 pa
The frequencies above are offered as guide, this will be balanced depending on successful applicants interests and the needs of the service and are subject to change. The role at present carries 1PA of standard SPA that includes governance, teaching and training and CPD.
Person specification
Education & professional qualifications
Essential criteria
- MRCPCH or equivalent
- CCT in Paeds or Community Health or CCST in Neurodisability
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Safeguarding level 3
- MDT working
- Change Management
- work with neurodevelopmental conditions
Skills and Aptitude
Essential criteria
- Clinical capability
- Teaching & training
- Commitment to MDT working
- Developmental assessment
- IT literate
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Good communication skills
- Good organisational skills
- Team Player
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Lara Shaffer
- Job title
- Joint Clinic Lead - Consultant Community Paed
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Richard Gurney
Operation Manager
07960 779827
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