Job overview

COMMUNITY CONSULTANT PAEDIATRICIAN
NAMED DOCTOR FOR LOOKED AFTER CHILDREN & MEDICAL ADVISOR FOR ADOPTION

This post is for a Consultant Paediatrician position in the community, in the Barking and Dagenham Specialist Children Service, based at the Child and Family Health Centre, 79 Axe Street, Barking, IG11 7L.

This is a newly created post, following investment by the place based ICB to support the increase demand on Community Paediatric services. A lot of transformation has taken place already and continues to take place in Barking and Dagenham community babies, children, and young people services. This post is currently vacant, and we wish to recruit substantively to this post as soon as possible.   

This is a new, substantive, full-time - 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) post with 7.5 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 2.5 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs).

There is no on call requirement at night, although the post holder will participate in a daytime on-call rota 9am - 5pm to deliver child protection medical examinations.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will work as part of a fully integrated multidisciplinary specialist team providing care to children and young people with health needs, across Barking & Dagenham. The successful applicant will also become part of a large (30+ community paediatricians), dynamic, community paediatric team, across the whole of North East London Foundation Trust. 

The successful candidate will provide senior medical support to the team, and direct input on clinical cases. The consultant will be expected to provide guidance and supervision to the team, work directly with babies, children, and young people (and their families), and liaise as appropriate with other external health providers, and acute hospitals.

There will also be the opportunity for the post holder to further develop links already established with the local acute trusts, in order to continually improve our services. There are close links with the acute paediatric department at Kind George Hospital (Ilford) and Queens Hospital (Romford) alongside Tertiary colleagues at the Royal London and Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Working for our organisation

Why NELFT?

NELFT is an award-winning community and mental health Trust, providing healthcare for over 4.9 million people, ensuring our patients, family and friends feel confident that their health needs are met. We are committed to delivering the best care to the communities we serve across North East London, Essex and Kent.

With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled healthcare professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care. Joining us will provide you with unparalleled access to training opportunities, continuous CPD, peer support groups, and a robust supervision and appraisal system.