Job overview

Applications are invited for an enthusiastic and committed Paediatrician, who will join our established team of general paediatricians. We are seeking applicants with an interest in respiratory or allergy but additional special interests including the following will be considered:

·         Neonatology 

  ·    Paediatric high dependency care     

·         Safeguarding

·         Rheumatology

·         Immunology

·         Gastroenterology

This is a new consultant post to assist in managing the increasing clinical and administrative workload and help achieve the 'facing the future' standards set out by the RCPCH. 

In particular, the appointment of the additional colleagues, will go some way in enhancing senior consultant presence in clinical areas and support a 'second on' duty paediatrician rota enabling 2 consultants to be present and providing acute clinical cover during the working week.

The post has clinical responsibilities covering services to children within the Acute Trust in conjunction with nine other consultants working as a team providing elective and emergency children’s acute service for children of North Northamptonshire

Main duties of the job

The Consultants operate a Paediatrician/ neonatal consultant of the week rota for the Children’s wards. The Paediatrician of the week is responsible for all paediatric in-patient Paediatric admissions during the week and for all Paediatric emergencies during regular working hours, with out of hour’s on-call shared amongst the consultant colleagues. 

There is a separate consultant covering the neonatal unit from 9 AM to 5 PM during the working week and a split oncall rota. All paediatric and neonatal consultants partake in a shared rota covering the paediatric assessment unit 0900-1700hrs; 5 days/ wk.

Oncall:

On-call paediatric consultant attends handover ward round when on-call Weekend on-call are split with one consultant covering Friday and Sunday and is then Duty Paediatrician for the following week. A second consultant is on call for the Saturday. During on-calls on-site presence will be from 1700 to 2200 hrs with on-call from home till 08:30. Consultant of the week is on call from 0830 till 1800 with additional hour (1700-1800) for handovers and urgent reviews. The consultant is expected to do ward rounds on Saturday and Sunday mornings and provide onsite cover from 0900 to 1500 hours.. 

Working for our organisation

Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. Our mission is to provide safe, compassionate, and clinically excellent patient care, by being an outstanding employer for our people. We have entered into a Group Model with neighbouring Northampton General Hospital and have become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.

Our Excellence Values:

Compassion

Respect

Integrity

Courageous

Accountable

Children and Young People Services are part of the Family health Division, led by a Chief of Division, a Divisional Director and Head of Nursing. Paediatrics and Obstetrics and Gynaecology, are each led by a Clinical Director

The newly appointed consultant will join the team of existing consultants to deliver a high quality emergency and elective neonatal/ paediatric service.

They will also have the opportunity to contribute to the development of the new hospital build and urgent care hub. These are exciting times with a proposed funding for our Estates project that may cause substantial restructuring and smart wards areas. The urgent care hub is fast developing with a co-located PAU that is expected to evolve with excellent opportunities for a truly integrated working with primary, secondary and community care services.