Consultant Paediatrician

Join a forward-thinking, patient-centred team as a Consultant Paediatrician, where your expertise will shape the future of child health services. We are seeking a dedicated and compassionate clinician who is committed to delivering high-quality, evidence-based care to infants, children, and young people.

You will provide specialist assessment, diagnosis and ongoing care to children, young people and families in Wiltshire and B&NES. The post holder will share all aspects of community paediatric work with colleagues and should have relevant experience in clinical management of children, including those with neurodevelopmental difficulties and safeguarding children. The post holder will take part in the child protection on-call rota.

The child health department is a friendly and dynamic team of six consultants, and one associate specialist, and 4 GPwER based in St Martins community hospital towards the south of the city of Bath and 4 consultants, 2 associate specialists and 5 GPwER based in Wiltshire. We are well supported by the Single Point of Access (SPA) and secretarial team.

Applicants should possess, or be within 6 months of receiving, a CCT in paediatrics at the time of appointment.

Department: Community Paediatric Department

Hours: Full-time but part-time applicants will be considered

Main duties of the job

• Deliver community paediatric clinics, assessing children with a range of concerns that are affecting their health, development or educational potential, in accordance with our established referral criteria. This includes medical assessments for the SEND process.
• Complete their reports and administration in timescales as per departmental guidance and adhering to that from statutory agencies.
• Contribute to multidisciplinary assessment and management in a collaborative way with all members of the team for initial assessments and follow-ups where relevant.
• Contribute to the teaching and clinical supervision of paediatric trainees within the department and of undergraduate medical students.
• Liaise with other health professionals to ensure coordinated management of assessments, treatment and follow up.
• Participate in the safeguarding on call rota 8am 8pm weekdays and 8am 5pm Saturday and Sunday. This includes providing information and participating in strategy discussions.

About us

• £109,725 £145,478 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counseling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.