COMMUNITY CONSULTANT PAEDIATRICIAN & NAMED DOCTOR FOR SAFEGUARDING

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Job overview:

Please note: We reserve the right to close this advert, at any time, in the event of receiving suitable applicants.

Contract: Substantive

Location: Acorn Centre, 306 London Road, Romford, RM7 9NH

Qualifications needed:

• Full GMC registration with a licence to practice
• CCT or equivalent
• Inclusion in, or eligibility for inclusion in the Specialist Register or within 6 months of obtaining CCST
• At least 2 years’ experience in Community Child Health.

Main duties of the job:

• To demonstrate that your values are in line with that of NELFT’s values
• To be innovative, motivated, and passionate about baby, children, and young people health care
• Essential understanding of current developments in community paediatric care
• To be a team player

Working for our organisation:

NELFT is an award-winning community and mental health Trust, providing healthcare for over a million people, ensuring our patients, family and friends feel confident that their health needs are met. We are committed to delivering the best care to the communities we serve across North East London, Essex and Kent.

With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled healthcare professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care. Joining us will provide you with unparalleled access to training opportunities, continuous CPD, peer support groups, and a robust supervision and appraisal system.

You will join another Consultant Paediatricians, Specialty Doctors, 1wte Senior Trainee, and GPvTS doctor within the service, and will have the opportunity to influence future direction, treatment, and models of design in the area in which you work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

• Work as part of multidisciplinary teams providing care to babies, children and young people across Havering.
• Provide senior medical support and guidance 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
• Participate in the local Child Protection rota
• Support your peers and team leader, and be an effective team member whilst allowing them to work with their own initiative
• Commit to collaborative working, actively supporting and liaising with other health and social professionals, and agencies.

Person specification:

• Full GMC registration with a licence to practice
• CCT or equivalent
• Inclusion in, or eligibility for inclusion in the Specialist Register or within 6 months of obtaining CCST
• At least 2 years’ experience in Community Child Health.

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

• A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
• A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our efforts to support our working parents and carers.
• Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.