Consultant Community Paediatrician (London)

Consultant Community Paediatrician

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is looking to appoint a Consultant Community Paediatrician to the Kaleidoscope Children’s Centre, Lewisham. The post holder will have responsibility to deliver a community paediatric service.

This is a new post with a special interest in the communication clinic pathway with assessments of children with social communication disorders. This role will have a lead within the communication clinic for diagnosis for the under 5-year-old group.

There is no overnight commitment. The post holder will contribute to the daytime child protection rota, but there is no expectation to contribute to Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA) medicals.

The post holder will join a team of 9 Consultant Community Paediatricians, 2 community SAS doctors, and one Specialty Doctor. Senior Allied Health professionals and clinical nurse specialists will also contribute to assessments and care for young people.

The department is developing the workforce, including using sessional GPs for some aspects of community paediatric work as well as developing the clinical nurse specialist role to allow the consultants to focus on specialist community paediatric roles.

Clinical Responsibilities:

1. Work in all aspects of Community Paediatrics based on experience and service priorities.
2. Assess and manage children with neurodevelopmental concerns and safeguarding issues.
3. Participate in the consultant-led Child Protection rota.
4. Undertake health assessments for Looked After Children and provide written reports.
5. Support and advise colleagues in clinical assessment and care of children and young people.
6. Provide supervision to trainees, specialist doctors, clinical nurse specialists, and AHPs.
7. Participate in clinical supervision and continuing professional development of medical staff.
8. Collaborate with Community Paediatric services and Children’s Community Services Directorate.
9. Develop care pathways across acute and community services.
10. Contribute to the development of Specialist Child Health Services.
11. Liaise with other agencies on clinical and operational matters.
12. Provide advice and signposting to other professionals about legal processes, research, and policy documents.
13. Participate in departmental research planning and implementation.
14. Ensure high performance in clinical efficiency and quality of outcomes.
15. Complete and correct reports in a timely manner.
16. Take part in clinical and educational supervision of postgraduate trainees.
17. Participate in clinical audit, incident reporting, and analysis, ensuring resulting actions are implemented.

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General Responsibilities:

1. To participate in clinical supervision and continuing professional development of both career and training grade medical staff.
2. To work with Community Paediatric services and Children’s Community Services Directorate to meet service commitments and needs of children and families.
3. To develop care pathways across the acute and community services.
4. To participate in the development of Specialist Child Health Services in collaboration with other members of the management team.
5. To support the collection of relevant information on the work of the medical team, detailing the work of the service for stakeholders.

Research:

1. To participate in the departmental research planning and implementation.
2. Interest in relevant areas of research will be encouraged.

Performance Management:

1. To work with clinical and managerial colleagues to ensure high performance in clinical efficiency and quality of outcomes.
2. Timely completion and correction of reports.

Medical Education & Teaching:

1. To take part in clinical and educational supervision of postgraduate trainees.
2. To participate in the medical student training programme.
3. To plan and deliver training for GP trainees and other post-graduate teaching.
4. Contribute to the delivery of training for health staff and inter-agency training.
5. Work with leads to identify and support training needs.

Clinical Audit and Clinical Governance:

1. Participate in clinical audit, incident reporting, and analysis and to ensure resulting actions are implemented.
2. Work closely with the Directorate, Patient and Public Involvement panels in relation to clinical and services developments as delegated.
3. Participate in ensuring NICE requirements are reviewed and implemented and monitored in the specialty areas.
4. To ensure clinical guidelines and protocols are adhered to by medical staff and updated on a regular basis.
5. Review clinical outcomes in designated area using external benchmarking data where appropriate, to identify and advise variances to the Clinical Director.

Continuing Professional Development:

1. Attend relevant local, regional, and national continuing professional development activities to maintain competence.
2. Meet the organisation’s requirements for training attendance.
3. Receive regular supervision and undertake reflective practice.

Policy, Planning and Management:

1. Support the Trust to deliver quality patient care.
2. Contribute to the development of clinical and organisational protocols and guidelines.
3. Assist in the development of the Annual Service Plan for the Directorate and Division and participate in the strategic planning of the service.
4. Comply with all Trust policies.

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