Consultant Community Paediatrician

If you come and work as part of the NELFT Paediatric ASD, your knowledge and skills will be valued. Come join NELFT named in 2021 as a ‘Working Families Top Ten Employer’ and Winner at the RIDI Awards for ‘Making a Difference – Public Sector’. Benefits to thepost holder joining the Paediatric ASD service and NELFT will be the offer of the following:

• Relocation assistance package up to a value of £8,000 inc VAT and stamp duty exempt of tax and three days paid time off
• Structured annual education, training, and development package through several funded clinical and non-clinical courses to support you through own career development and progression in your own career path
• Opportunity to learn and apply the latest research evidence in the field of autism through partnership with the University of Cambridge Autism Research Centre
• Leadership, coaching and mentoring opportunities
• Sideway internal transfer scheme available to open opportunities to gain exposure and a wider breadth of clinical experience
• Flexible and Agile working
• Family friendly policies and procedures
• Substantial number of staff benefits: Cycle scheme; Key Worker Accommodation scheme; staff discounts; Parent & Carer network

The post is for 10 sessions Consultant Community Paediatrician in Community Paediatrics. The post holder will be a GMC registered clinician responsible for patients allocated to them and will assess, manage, plan, and deliver evidenced based care, including being professionally and legally accountable.
The post holder will provide clinical and operational leadership as part of a newly established Paediatric ASD service and will support their peers and team leader whilst being an effective team member and working on their own initiative. They will supervise junior colleagues including
provision of teaching and training. They will have a commitment to collaborative working and actively supporting and liaising with other health and social care professionals and agencies.

NELFT provides paediatric services in 7 localities / boroughs in North East London (Redbridge, Barking and Dagenham, Havering and Waltham Forest) and South West Essex (Basildon, Brentwood and Thurrock. All departments are co-located with CAMHS services working toward a fully integrated model. Within the 7 localities the Community Paediatricians are supported by multi-professional teams. Leadership teams are working with NEL CCGs to increase resources and capacity in children and young people services, including creation of additional Community Paediatric posts across the sector.

Main responsibilities:
1. To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others workload in the day to-day allocation of work.
2. To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them, particularly administration of medicine and moving and handling.
3. To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.
4. To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing, and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust register.
5. The post holder will lead and develop the ASD/ADHD service, working alongside the multidisciplinary specialist team. They will contribute towards assessment and relevant investigations and supervising MDT colleagues. They will produce reports to contribute to statutory work including EHC plans, IHA plans as required.
6. Leverage opportunities to develop the integrated multidisciplinary Neurodevelopmental service across BHR
7. Provide a high quality, accessible, timely, efficient, effective, comprehensive and specialist ASD service for children and adolescents, their carers/parents and families.
8. Provide and/or support the provision of evidence-based assessment and clinical management for service users. This will include providing highly specialist assessment and contributing to multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment of children and young people referred to the ASD service.
9. Responsible for assessment, treatment, and systemic outcome measurement in the specialist care pathway
10.Contribute to coordination and service development within the ASD service
11.Managing waiting list within specialist care pathway and ensuring waiting lists are at clinically safe level. Prioritise resources in line with clinical needs
Clinical Skills
1. To act as an autonomous, registered practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for own unsupervised actions guided by the professional code of conduct and Trust guidelines and protocols.
2. The post holder will have full registration with a licence to practice on the General Medical Council (GMC).
3. Further professional knowledge will have been gained through accredited courses workshops, study and in house training programmes.
4. To be responsible, and accountable, for service delivery to clients/patients.
5. To be able to assess and develop plans of care in a range of settings to meet the complex needs of patients with a variety of conditions. This includes chronic, acute, and palliative care within own competencies, recognising own limitations and seeking advice when necessary. This will include continuously evaluating and acting on outcomes.
6. To be able to initiate referrals to other health professional specialist services and agencies.
7. To provide patients and relatives with information and education thus ensuring they have meaningful choices that promote dignity, independence and quality of life.
8. To ensure practice is supported by research, evidence-based practice, literature, and peer review and to evaluate the effectiveness of such interventions using proven and established means.
9. To attend and contribute to case review and clinical meetings to aid the care planning process.
10.Actively participate in clinical supervision