🚀 Community Paediatric South Substantive Consultant

Employer Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site John Radcliffe Town OXFORD Salary £109,725 - £145,478 0 Salary period Yearly Closing 15/11/ :59

Community Paediatric South Substantive Consultant

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.

The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

Many of our recruitment programmes use values-based interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significance difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families.

POST OF: CONSULTANT IN COMMUNITY PAEDIATRICS

Applications are invited to apply for the above post in the Department of Community Paediatrics,
Oxford Children’s Hospital, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford.
The appointment is on a less-than full time basis for 7.5 sessions a week.
Candidates are highly recommended to visit the department and hospital and are invited to contact
Dr Sarah Haden, Clinical Lead for Community Paediatrics, Oxford University Hospitals NHS
Foundation Trust, The John Radcliffe (Tel: Oxford ) or Dr Shelley Segal, Clinical
Director for Children’s Services (Tel: ).
Any person who is unable for personal reasons to work the hours described will be eligible to be
considered for the post. If such a person is appointed, modification of the job content will be
discussed on a personal basis, in consultation with consultant colleagues.

Main duties of the job

Oxford Children’s Hospital, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford.
An opportunity has risen for one less than full time Consultant posts in our department. This is a
replacement post. The successful applicant will join a team of 10 Consultant Community
Paediatricians. The post-holder’s clinical core commitments will include Community
Paediatrics/neurodisability assessments including secondary level assessment and management
of children with developmental difficulties, special educational needs, and child protection
medicals. The post holder will be responsible for providing Community Paediatric/Neurodisability
care to children and families living in a defined area of Oxfordshire, and includes clinics within a
special school. Clinical work will include a range of activities including clinical assessment,
multidisciplinary assessments, supervising specialist registrar/speciality doctor and contributing to
the departmental child protection rota.
Appropriate administrative support will be provided.
Our community paediatrics department has a dynamic and vibrant training programme with
excellent links to the children’s specialist services. In addition the applicant will be involved in
teaching both under- and post-graduates students and training community Paediatric higher
specialist trainees.

Working for our organisation

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.

We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

In 2023 NHS England launched its first sexual safety charter, and our Trust proudly signed it. We pledge zero tolerance for inappropriate sexual behaviour and commit to the ten core principles.

Oxford University Hospital promotes a safe, respectful hiring environment.

Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical
The post-holder’s commitments will include routine Community Paediatrics/Neurodisability
assessments including secondary level review and management of children with developmental
difficulties, special educational needs, overseeing and monitoring multidisciplinary assessment
processes and child protection assessments. The post holder will provide
community/neurodisability care for a defined geographical patch and for a special school. The
department runs a Monday-Friday 9am-5pm on-call system for child protection. The child
protection workload is therefore not limited to fixed sessions each week, as cover may be needed
at other times.
Clinical work will include a range of activities including clinical assessment, multidisciplinary
assessments, supervising specialist registrar/speciality doctor and contributing to the departmental
child protection rota.
Appropriate administrative support will be provided.
Our Community Paediatrics department has a dynamic and vibrant training programme and enjoys
excellent links to the children’s specialist services. We have a close mutiprofessional working
relationship with partner agencies including local authority, education and children’s therapy
services.
Teaching/Research
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a teaching hospital trust with academic links
to Oxford University, and the post-holder will be required to participate in programmes for teaching
undergraduate clinical students, training junior doctors, multidisciplinary teaching and in clinical
examinations. It is expected that this will be an integral part of everyday clinical activity.
The post-holder’s contribution to teaching, training and research will be included in the regular job plan review.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Full GMC with licence to practice
• MRCPCH, MRCP or equivalent
• CCT/CESR with Registration on GMC Specialist Register in Paediatrics or within 6 months of CCT at the time of interview
• CCT in Community Paediatrics or equivalent experience in Community Paediatrics (or within 6 months of CCT at time of interview)
• Trained to level 3 safeguarding / Child Protection

Experience

• Comprehensive training in Community Paediatrics including children safeguarding work. Must have held hospital appointments in Paediatrics at SHO/ST1-3 and registrar/ST4-8 level
• Evidence of ability to make independent decisions at Consultant level and to manage complex clinical problems.
• Experience and training in writing child protection reports, in providing advice about child protection cases and attending case conferences and court room experience
• Level of responsibility Evidence of ability to make independent decisions at Consultant level and to manage complex clinical problems. Locum Consultant Experience preferably in Community Paediatrics

Skills

• Leadership skills: Ability to lead a team of professionals
• Organisation and management skills: Effective administrative and time management skills. Management qualification. Knowledge of the organisation of the NHS and the Government’s agenda for its modernisation.
• Communication and interpersonal skills: Good spoken and written English. Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills.
• Communication and interpersonal skills: Training or experience in difficult communications
• Teaching and training skills: Experience of formal and informal contributions to teaching and training. Education qualification Interest in teaching with portfolio of teaching and training achievements.
• Clinical governance experience: Evidence of effective and sustained contribution to clinical governance, clinical risk management and clinical audit activities. Evidence of service improvement
• Knowledge of the organisation of the NHS and the Government’s agenda for its modernisation.
• Training or experience in difficult communications
• Interest in teaching with portfolio of teaching and training achievements
• Evidence of service improvement

other requirements

• Driving Licence and access to a car for travel

COVID-19: The COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment at this time, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks and so that we can support those who may be undecided about vaccination. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information at Oxfordshire County Council Website where you can also find out more about how to access vaccination. There is a current Government consultation underway which will determine whether some new starters may need to be vaccinated.

Please make sure that you read the job description and person specification attached below, and that your statement in support reflects this as your application will be judged against these criteria.

All candidates will be contacted with an update on the application. The majority of correspondence will be via the e-recruitment system, therefore you should check your emails regularly including junk mail folders in web-based email products.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

For further information please contact Dr Sarah Haden, Clinical Lead for Community Paediatrics, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, The John Radcliffe (Tel: Oxford ) or Dr Shelley Segal, Clinical Director for Children’s Services (Tel: ).

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