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Consultant Community Paediatrician

Employer
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Location
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Closing date
4 Jul 2021

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Profession
Specialist doctor, Paediatrics
Grade
Consultant
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
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Job Details

Nottingham Children's Hospital is seeking to recruit 1 Consultant Community Paediatricians on 10 PAs each to join the Community Paediatrics service.

The post holders will be an integral part of Nottingham Children’s Hospital Community Paediatric team, delivering services within 3 geographically defined localities in Nottingham/shire (Bulwell, Broxtowe, City South) and Children Development Centre (CDC).

The post holder will be in good standing with the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and to register for and partake in the RCPCH Continuing Professional Development scheme.

Applicants must be on the GMC specialist register, or within 6 months of their expected date of CCT at time of interview.

Nottingham Children's Hospital provides a comprehensive range of specialist services for children in Nottingham, together with tertiary paediatric and neonatal services to the adjacent areas of Lincolnshire, Derbyshire and North Nottinghamshire, surgical services for Stoke on Trent in the Midlands and neurosurgical services for Leicestershire.

Community Paediatrics is one of the specialist services provided by Nottingham Children’s Hospital.

The Community Paediatric service has an establishment of approximately 21 whole time equivalent doctors.  The work is in five geographical patches, each patch team led by a consultant who also carries district wide responsibilities. The teams all have slightly different composition with a mixture of consultants, associate specialists, specialty doctors and trainees.  Together, the team provide comprehensive general and specialist community child health services.

The post holders will be required to undertake the following duties:

  • Contribute to the Community Paediatric service in the localities of Nottingham/shire and CDC. This will include general paediatric clinics and assessment, diagnosis and management of neurodevelopmental conditions including Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and ADHD.  The service will be delivered within community based clinics, through referral from GPs via the Paediatric Navigation Hub.
  • Provide paediatric medical advice and support to health, education and social care colleagues within the locality including provision of reports and attendance at CAF/TAC/Multiagency meetings as appropriate.
  • Provide health reports to education and social care for statutory processes (e.g. Education, Health and Care Plans, child protection /care proceedings)
  • Participate in the daily safeguarding rota for physical non-accidental injury based at QMC, examining children, writing reports, providing statements for the police and court and providing evidence at court as a professional witness.
  • Participate in the daily safeguarding rota for Child Sexual Assault rota based at the East Midlands Children and Young Person Sexual Assault Suite (EMCYPSAS), which is a Regional service within the QMC and part the Community paediatric service.
  • Participate in peer review for safeguarding, community and general paediatric patients
  • Contribute to the monthly community paediatric business meeting and department CPD meetings.
  • Teaching on the undergraduate and postgraduate training programme and supervision of medical students and specialty trainees within the clinic setting.

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Choose Nottingham

Voted as one of the Sunday Times Best Places to live, our city and the region are one of the big reasons why a career at NUH is the right choice for so many.

The city has been named in the top ten places to bring up a family and the top UK city to make your salary stretch further. Whilst you’re probably already familiar with Robin Hood (and yes, there is still a castle and a Sherriff), there is so much more to Nottingham than its legends. There’s rich culture on every corner with something for all tastes and a thriving independent restaurant and shopping sector

The three campuses of Nottingham University Hospitals are based in and around the city centre with direct access to all of the amenities and attractions. 25% of Nottingham is made up of green spaces and parks but within a short journey you can be in the spectacular surrounding countryside of the Peak District, Sherwood Forest, Rutland Water and the Lincolnshire coast. 

Choose NUH

NUH was established in 2006. We have a budget of just under £1billion, over 16,000 staff, 90 wards and 1,700 beds across three main sites: QMC, City Hospital and Ropewalk House. We deliver district general services to 2.5 million residents of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire and its surrounding communities. Our specialist services allow us to deliver care to 4-5 million people from across the East Midlands and nationally for a handful of services. 

Our staff make us who we are: a listening and caring organisation. We are proud of our award-winning staff wellbeing programme. We provide dedicated staff physios, fitness facilities and staff benefits to show colleagues how valued they are.

Recognising and rewarding staff is an important part of being part of 'Team NUH' and we celebrate our colleagues throughout the year through Trust wide and local recognition schemes.

We can offer you a unique range of opportunities because we are:

  • The third largest teaching hospital in the country
  • The biggest Major Trauma Centre in the Country
  • One of the most research active places outside of London-Oxford-Cambridge. WE host the National Institute for Health Nottingham Biomedical Research Center and Nottingham Clinical Research Facilities, which together are centres of excellence for clinical research
  • A national and international leader for many of our specialist services including; Hearing, Stroke, Renal, Neurosciences and Cancer.
  • Part of one of the first Integrated Care Systems in the country now up and running in Greater Nottingham, developing new models of care across the region.

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