East London NHS Foundation Trust
Consultant Community Paediatrician with a focus on safe guarding
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ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job Overview
We are looking to recruit a Consultant to our Community Paediatric team in Newham for 2025.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a dynamic team within a multidisciplinary Community Child Health service in East London:
- Consultant Community Paediatrician (up to 10PA) - The post will have a safeguarding focus working closely with the named doctors for safeguarding and Children in care to support all activities necessary to ensure that the organisation meets its responsibilities for looked after children and young people.
Closing date: 20th of September 2026
AAC panel interview: 27th of October 2026
Main duties of the job
I) Clinical Activities:
- Consultant clinics including Children in Care clinics and related administrative work
- Triage and supervision as Consultant of the Day
- Clinical discussions or meetings
- Support and advise colleagues in the clinical assessment and care of children and young people.
II) Teaching/ Training:
- To take a lead role for new trainees and doctors (not consultants) joining the department overseeing education supervision and organizing induction.
- To contribute to departmental teaching
- To contribute to teaching of medical students
- Work with specialist and designated looked after children professionals locally to agree and promote training needs and priorities
III) Management And Leadership:
- Audit, quality improvement and service development
- Clinical governance
- Management supervision
IV) Children in Care (Looked after children) and Safeguarding Role
- Working closely with Named Doctors to support all activities necessary to ensure that the organisation meets its responsibilities for looked after children and young people
- Advise local police, children’s social care and other statutory and voluntary agencies on health matters with regard to looked after children and safeguarding children.
- Liaise closely with other specialist services within ELFT.
- Support and advise the board of the healthcare organisation about safeguarding children and looked after children and young people.
- Contribute to the planning and strategic organisation of provider services for looked after children and child protection.
Working for our organisation
East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT) is recognised as a centre of excellence for innovation and improvement, and the postholder would be working within Specialist Children and Young People's Services (SCYPS). We are committed to improving the health and well-being of babies, children and young people in Newham and North East London. Partnership, quality improvement and evidence-based research and practice remains at the heart of our service delivery so that we can provide the best possible care, and ensure our patients achieve the best possible outcomes. East London NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as “Outstanding” following CQC inspections in 2016, 2018 and again in 2021. The Trust is committed to pursuing equity, patient participation and staff engagement. Making the Trust an excellent place to work is one of our key priorities. Our staff are our most prized asset and we are committed to improve the working lives of our staff across all services and teams. We strongly believe in supporting all staff to develop and grow, and have a strong professional development and lifelong learning ethos, linked to a commitment to clinical supervision and appraisal processes.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Further details about the posts are detailed in the Job Descriptions and person specification attached.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
- Current full UK GMC registration and Licence to Practise
- MRCPCH or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Postgraduate degree in related child health or medical speciality, e.g. MSc, MD, PhD
- DCH, MBA or other diploma or higher degree in a relevant field
Professional training
Essential Criteria
- Entry on GMC specialist register
- At least 2 years Higher Specialist Training or equivalent clinical experience in Community Paediatrics
- At least 2 years General Professional Training in Paediatrics
- In process of applying for specialist registration via portfolio pathway
Desirable criteria
- SPIN or Diploma in Paediatric Neurodisability
Clinical Knowledge
Essential Criteria
- Extensive experience of working in a multidisciplinary Child Development Team
- Competent in management of common general paediatric problems – acute and chronic
- Up to date with Level 3 competences in Safeguarding Children
- Competent in supervision of Child Protection Medical Assessments
- Experience working in partnership with Education, Social Care and other stakeholders
- Ability to conduct and supervise assessments for Children in Care including IHAs and RHAs
- Valid BLS Training
Desirable criteria
- Specialist experience in Paediatric Neurology or other areas of related Community Child Health practice
- Experience in other areas relevant to child health, e.g. child mental health, obstetrics, public health, general practice
- Experience in tone management in cerebral Palsy
- Competent use of Griffiths III or other similar developmental assessment tool
- Experience in managing children with complex neurological and developmental problems
- Training in Autism diagnostic assessment
Medical
Essential Criteria
- Has acted as clinical supervisor for trainees and/or specialty doctors
Desirable criteria
- Experience in clinical leadership of a multidisciplinary team
- Experience as Educational supervisor
- Completed a recognised medical management course
- Has the ability and experience to undertake medical appraisals
- Has experience in: NHS complaint handling - Critical incident reporting - Staff appraisal - Risk management
- Experience of working in published research project
Patient Safety
Essential Criteria
- Has a record of completed audit projects, service development work
- Has record of involvement in Quality Improvement projects
Desirable criteria
- Has experience in co-production and collaboration with service users
- Has undertaken Quality Improvement training
Communication and interpersonal skill
Essential Criteria
- Good written communication on application form
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of work to champion diversity, equity and inclusion at work
Essential Criteria
Personal or other skills
- Application shows breadth of thinking and initiative
- Application shows Enthusiastic and motivated
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Making Things Better
Quality Improvement is a key part of our work to improve our services and refine how we do things. We have a global reputation for our quality improvement work and we don’t stand still! So we offer a fantastic opportunity for our staff to learn, lead and contribute towards improving our services.
We launched our Five Year Strategy in April 2018, which identified four main strategic outcomes to improve: population health outcomes, experience of care, staff experience and improve value. This complements the NHS Long Term Strategy and sets out our direction of travel.
Our Community
We provide a wide range of community health and mental health inpatient services to children, young people, adults of working age, and older adults in The City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire and Luton. We provide Forensic services to the whole of North East London. We provide services in urban and rural settings, sometimes in our inpatient units, but mostly in the community close to where people live. Integrated care is key in making the best use of resources and providing effective care.
Aiming High
East London NHS Foundation Trust has achieved its third consecutive ‘Outstanding’ rating from the Care Quality Commission; the first Community and Mental Health Trust to achieve this rating for a third time. We were named in the HSJ’s Top 10 best places to work in healthcare and were voted Provider Trust of the Year in 2018.
Staff and Service Users United
We strive to ensure that staff feel valued by the Trust and as they are truly pivotal in delivering better outcomes for our patients and service users. Our aspiration is to help to make ELFT the best place to work. This Trust is clinician-led and provides the highest possible level of clinical expertise throughout its services. We pride ourselves on our service user involvement. A service user will be on your assessment centre and interview panel if you are invited to meet us.
We especially welcome people with lived experience of health difficulties, with insight and understanding of different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles in our population as we believe that this will equip staff to deliver a high standard of care to our service users and patients.
Diversity
ELFT Is committed to being a diverse organisation and our workforce is reflective of the population and communities we serve. We believe that having colleagues with a range of backgrounds and life experiences enriches and adds value to the outcomes we have set out to achieve. Having partnered and endorsed by organisations who are representative and experts in various areas of equality and diversity, we can ensure we are meeting the pre-set standards all the way from recruitment stage throughout the career journey of our employees by being accessible, having fair inclusive practices and a host of staff networks to support, nurture and celebrate our valued staff in the workplace.
Other Reasons To Apply
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern.
As part of the relocation scheme we presently have, the Trust could support you with offering up to £8,000 for removal and
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