At a Glance
- Tasks: Join a dynamic team providing high-quality paediatric care and palliative expertise.
- Company: Barts Health NHS Trust, a leading healthcare provider in the UK.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, professional development, and a supportive work environment.
- Other info: Flexible working options available, promoting a healthy work-life balance.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in children's lives while advancing your career.
- Qualifications: MBBS or equivalent, MRCPCH, and experience in paediatric medicine.
The predicted salary is between 113565 - 150569 £ per year.
We are delighted to invite applications for a substantive consultant post in General Paediatrics with a special interest in Paediatric palliative care. Applications are particularly welcomed from candidates that hold a SPIN in palliative care. This is a new post for the department following a successful pilot which has demonstrated positive outcomes for the children's hospital.
The successful candidates will join a highly motivated, consultant-led team delivering high quality Paediatric care to Tower Hamlets & East London. The general paediatric department is based at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel. The Children's Hospital Division of the Royal London Hospital manages over 20,000 inpatient spells a year and sees over 22,000 new patients and over 47,000 follow up patients per year in clinic.
The Paediatric department is welcoming and friendly. Our multidisciplinary clinical team includes nurses, play specialists, clinical practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, and allied health professionals working alongside doctors in training, clinical fellows, associate specialists & consultants. All of our team are dedicated to the highest standards in clinical care and patient safety.
The general paediatric duties of the post include participation in the short stay attending week rotas &/or inpatient attending week rotas, the on-call rota (which includes on-site duties until 22:00 on week nights) and both general paediatric & rapid access clinics. The paediatric palliative care duties of the post include providing palliative care expertise to the wider children's hospital including NICU and PCCU with a focus on symptom management, advance care planning and supporting MDTs in ethical decision making. Professional development for this part of the role will be provided by the Great Ormond Street Hospital palliative care team.
This is a 10PA post, but applications are welcome from candidates hoping to work less than whole time or who wish to job share.
Person Specification
- Qualifications and knowledge
- Essential: MBBS or equivalent degree, MRCPCH or equivalent, On GMC Specialist Register in Paediatrics or within 6 months of CCT.
- Desirable: Other postgraduate degree.
- Experience
- Essential: Broad range of clinical experience in Acute General Paediatrics, Higher specialist training in Paediatric Medicine, Up to date APLS/PALS, Valid Level 3 Safeguarding Training, Higher specialist training in paediatric palliative care (minimum of 6 months in a specialist paediatric palliative care centre), Paediatric palliative medicine SPIN (or equivalent).
- Desirable: At least six months of PICU at middle grade level.
- Skills and knowledge
- Desirable: Knowledge of business planning and budgets, Experience in Medical Management roles, Experience of dealing with governance and risk, Experience of research projects (including PI).
- Personal and people development
- Essential: Have positive ambitions for self and department, Commitment to continuing CPD, teaching, and education, Attendance and punctuality, Ability to work well with colleagues within and across departments and hospitals, share the load and introduce change collaboratively, Honesty, integrity, appreciation of ethical issues.
- Communication and interpersonal skills
- Essential: Able to empathise with people from different social, cultural and religious backgrounds, Able to communicate with parents and children effectively, Resilience when dealing with complex and challenging safeguarding scenarios, Good oral and written communication skills.
- Education and teaching
- Essential: Up to date with annual appraisals and revalidation requirements, Ethos of lifelong learning and a desire to continually gain and improve knowledge and skills.
- Desirable: Experience in undergraduate education.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.
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