Community Consultant Pediatrician

JOB TITLE: Consultant Community Pediatrician Thurrock - South West Essex

CONTRACT: 10 Programmed Activities (10 PAs)

Substantive Flexible working available including job share, part-time, remote sessions considered

BASE: Thurrock Community Hospital, Long Lane, Grays, RM16 2PX

Post And Specialty

This is a newly created post following additional funding added to a previous part-time post. A lot of transformation has taken place already and continues to take place in Essex’s Community Children and Young People’s Services. This post is currently vacant, and we wish to recruit to this post as soon as possible.

This is a new, substantive, full-time post - 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) post with 7.5 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 2.5 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs). It is a substantive post and we would consider requests for flexible working, job share or fixed term if preferred.

The successful candidate will provide senior medical support to the team, and direct input on clinical cases, and work closely with 0.8wte Consultant Paediatrician (Dr Kaushik Banerjee), and 1.8wte Specialist Grade Doctor (out to recruitment) in the Team. 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 Basildon University Hospital.

We have Core Paediatric Trainees from London and Eastern Deanery, with a joint training programme with BHRUT, Basildon, and Whipps Cross Hospital. Medical Students are on placement from Cambridge and Barts and the London Medical Schools including medical students on the innovative “Medicine in Society” module from QMUL.

The expectation of the post holder is to support their teams, the Directorate and the organisation to follow the Trust’s Values in their day-to-day work.

We are kind

We are respectful

We work with our communities

1.1 Job Title: Consultant Community Pediatrician

This post is for a Consultant Paediatrician position in the South West Essex Community Paediatric team. This specific post is for the Thurrock part of the service and is based at the Integrated Child Health Service. at Gifford House, Thurrock Community Hospital, Long Lane, Grays, RM16 2PX, where the post holder will work in an integrated multidisciplinary team.

Rationale For Post

This is a newly created post following additional funding added to a previous part-time post. A lot of transformation has taken place already and continues to take place in Essex’s Community Children and Young People’s Services. This post is currently vacant, and we wish to recruit to this post as soon as possible.

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

On-call Responsibilities

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.

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 Thurrock. 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.

Accountability

The postholder will be professionally and clinically accountable to the Associate Medical Director (Dr Viviana Porcari), and operationally accountable to both the Associate Medical Director (Dr Viviana Porcari), and the Director of Children Services Essex & Kent, via the Assistant Director (currently Michael Caruana Smith).

The post holder will be a suitably qualified Consultant Paediatrician, or eligibility for it. The post holder will be a GMC registered clinician responsible for patients allocated to them and will assess, manage, plan, and deliver care. The post holder will support their peers and team leader and be an effective team member whilst working on their own initiative. They will have a commitment to collaborative working and actively supporting and liaising with other health and social care professionals and agencies. There are currently no junior doctors within the South West Essex team, however this could change in the near future.