Locum Consultant Community Paediatrician inNottingham inNottingham PUBLISHED
FRI 6 DEC 2024
The positions offer flexibility with a Monday to Friday schedule, allowing for part-time work without on-call responsibilities. The role includes collaboration with allied health professionals and provides a platform for developing specialist interests in areas such as safeguarding, autism assessment, neurodisability, and more. Candidates will receive appropriate training and support, and less than full-time applications are encouraged, ensuring that core duties are maintained within the final job plan.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our outstanding and expanding team at Nottingham Children's Hospital as a Locum Consultant in Community Paediatrics. This opportunity is ideal for those who have not yet received, or are working towards Specialist registration with the GMC.
Locum Consultant Community Paediatrician (6PAs)
We are seeking two 6 PA Locum Consultant Community Paediatricians to join the Community Paediatrics Service at Nottingham Children's Hospital.
The post holder will be an integral part of Nottingham Children's Hospital Community Paediatric team, supporting delivery of services for Children in Care at the Child Development Centre (CDC) and from one or more locality clinics within the Greater Nottinghamshire area (Nottingham City and South Nottinghamshire County). There is also contribution to the daytime safeguarding rota/clinics for suspected non-accidental injuries supported by senior paediatricians.
Successful applicants will have an exciting experience working with the Children's Hospital team at Nottingham University Hospitals and have opportunities to be involved in Quality improvement projects or research.
Please see the attached job description for an outline of the service and indicative job plan.
This post would provide the opportunity to revise and enhance paediatric skills post-CCT in preparation for substantive Consultant posts.
The bulk of the Community Paediatric clinic work is carried out in six geographical patches, plus the Child Development Centre, and each patch team is led by a consultant who also carries district wide responsibilities. We also have close working with allied health including some joint clinics. Together, the team provide comprehensive general and specialist community child health services including paediatric referral clinics (GP referral) in all the main health centres, and work within local specialist schools. There are close links with primary care teams, education, and the Child and Adolescent Mental Health team who cover the same area.
This post requires Monday-Friday working patterns (job plan attached) Full or Part time with no on-call working requirements.
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Whilst main clinics may have set days, other activities are more variable and flexible and so the exact time and day of the week may vary according to demand or your existing commitments. Flexible working from home is possible for some activities and a laptop with remote secure access to hospital systems will be provided.
Both posts include scope for developing exciting roles involving specialist skills and interests, and these are detailed in the individual job plans below. Appropriate training and support to undertake these roles would be provided. Candidates wishing to expand their interests in specialist safeguarding or assessment of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) would be particularly encouraged. Other possibilities for special interest include Down syndrome, neurodisability, sleep, hearing pathway, sexual assault, children in care/looked after, or another area that the candidate wishes to explore and that meets with service objectives.
Less than full time applications are welcome, but core DCC elements of the role must be included in the final agreed job plan.
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