Job summary
- Main area
- Community Paediatric Consultant
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 7.5 sessions per week (0)
- Job ref
- Community Paeds South Con
- Employer
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- John Radcliffe
- Town
- OXFORD
- Salary
- £109,725 - £145,478 0
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Community Paediatric South Substantive Consultant
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
Many of our recruitment programmes use values-based interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significance difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families.
For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit http://www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values/default.aspx
Job overview
POST OF: CONSULTANT IN COMMUNITY PAEDIATRICS
Applications are invited to apply for the above post in the Department of Community Paediatrics,
Oxford Children’s Hospital, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford.
The appointment is on a less-than full time basis for 7.5 sessions a week.
Candidates are highly recommended to visit the department and hospital and are invited to contact
Dr Sarah Haden, Clinical Lead for Community Paediatrics, Oxford University Hospitals NHS
Foundation Trust, The John Radcliffe (Tel: Oxford (01865 231995) or Dr Shelley Segal, Clinical
Director for Children’s Services (Tel: 01865 572897).
Any person who is unable for personal reasons to work the hours described will be eligible to be
considered for the post. If such a person is appointed, modification of the job content will be
discussed on a personal basis, in consultation with consultant colleagues.
Main duties of the job
Oxford Children’s Hospital, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford.
An opportunity has risen for one less than full time Consultant posts in our department. This is a
replacement post. The successful applicant will join a team of 10 Consultant Community
Paediatricians. The post-holder’s clinical core commitments will include Community
Paediatrics/neurodisability assessments including secondary level assessment and management
of children with developmental difficulties, special educational needs, and child protection
medicals. The post holder will be responsible for providing Community Paediatric/Neurodisability
care to children and families living in a defined area of Oxfordshire, and includes clinics within a
special school. Clinical work will include a range of activities including clinical assessment,
multidisciplinary assessments, supervising specialist registrar/speciality doctor and contributing to
the departmental child protection rota.
Appropriate administrative support will be provided.
Our community paediatrics department has a dynamic and vibrant training programme with
excellent links to the children’s specialist services. In addition the applicant will be involved in
teaching both under- and post-graduates students and training community Paediatric higher
specialist trainees.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.
We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence, and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
In 2023 NHS England launched its first sexual safety charter, and our Trust proudly signed it. We pledge zero tolerance for inappropriate sexual behaviour and commit to the ten core principles
Oxford University Hospitals promotes a safe, respectful hiring environment.
If you want to make a difference with us, come and join our team. Together, we will uphold the highest standards of care and professionalism.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical
The post-holder’s commitments will include routine Community Paediatrics/Neurodisability
assessments including secondary level review and management of children with developmental
difficulties, special educational needs, overseeing and monitoring multidisciplinary assessment
processes and child protection assessments. The post holder will provide
community/neurodisability care for a defined geographical patch and for a special school. The
department runs a Monday-Friday 9am-5pm on-call system for child protection. The child
protection workload is therefore not limited to fixed sessions each week, as cover may be needed
at other times.
Clinical work will include a range of activities including clinical assessment, multidisciplinary
assessments, supervising specialist registrar/speciality doctor and contributing to the departmental
child protection rota.
Appropriate administrative support will be provided.
Our Community Paediatrics department has a dynamic and vibrant training programme and enjoys
excellent links to the children’s specialist services. We have a close mutiprofessional working
relationship with partner agencies including local authority, education and children’s therapy
services.
Teaching/Research
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a teaching hospital trust with academic links
to Oxford University, and the post-holder will be required to participate in programmes for teaching
undergraduate clinical students, training junior doctors, multidisciplinary teaching and in clinical
examinations. It is expected that this will be an integral part of everyday clinical activity.
The post-holder’s contribution to teaching, training and research will be included in the regular job plan review.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Full GMC with licence to practice
- MRCPCH, MRCP or equivalent
- CCT/CESR with Registration on GMC Specialist Register in Paediatrics or within 6 months of CCT at the time of interview
- CCT in Community Paediatrics or equivalent experience in Community Paediatrics (or within 6 months of CCT at time of interview)
- Trained to level 3 safeguarding / Child Protection
Experience
Essential criteria
- Comprehensive training in Community Paediatrics including children safeguarding work. Must have held hospital appointments in Paediatrics at SHO/ST1-3 and registrar/ST4-8 level
- Evidence of ability to make independent decisions at Consultant level and to manage complex clinical problems.
Desirable criteria
- Experience and training in writing child protection reports, in providing advice about child protection cases and attending case conferences and court room experience
- Level of responsibility Evidence of ability to make independent decisions at Consultant level and to manage complex clinical problems. Locum Consultant Experience preferably in Community Paediatrics
Skills
Essential criteria
- Leadership skills: Ability to lead a team of professionals
- Organisation and management skills: Effective administrative and time management skills. Management qualification. Knowledge of the organisation of the NHS and the Government’s agenda for its modernisation.
- Professional - extra skills or achievements: Evidence of significant contribution to successful teamwork Computing skills; ability to use a word processor, spread sheet programme and web browser.
- Communication and interpersonal skills: Good spoken and written English. Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills.
- Communication and interpersonal skills: Training or experience in difficult communications
- Teaching and training skills: Experience of formal and informal contributions to teaching and training. Education qualification Interest in teaching with portfolio of teaching and training achievements.
- Clinical governance experience: Evidence of effective and sustained contribution to clinical governance, clinical risk management and clinical audit activities. Evidence of service improvement
Desirable criteria
- Management qualification.
- Knowledge of the organisation of the NHS and the Government’s agenda for its modernisation.
- Computing skills; ability to use a word processor, spread sheet programme and web browser.
- Training or experience in difficult communications
- Interest in teaching with portfolio of teaching and training achievements
- Education qualification
- Evidence of service improvement
other requirements
Essential criteria
- Driving Licence and access to a car for travel
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah Haden
- Job title
- Clinical Lead for Community Paediatrics
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865 231995
- Additional information
For further information please contact Dr Sarah Haden, Clinical Lead for Community Paediatrics, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, The John Radcliffe (Tel: Oxford (01865 231995) or Dr Shelley Segal, Clinical Director for Children’s Services (Tel: 01865 572897).
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