East London NHS Foundation Trust
Consultant Paediatrician ARFID Pathway
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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
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a community-based, specialist ARFID Pathway within the East London Community Eating Disorder Service for Children and Young People (EL CEDS-CYP). The job is based at the Emanuel Miller Centre, 11 Gill Street, London E14 8HQ, with cross-site working across Tower Hamlets, Newham and City & Hackney.
The post is part-time — 4 Programmed Activities (PAs), with 1 PA protected for Supporting Professional Activities (SPA), including Continuous Professional Development. Part-time and flexible working patterns are welcomed. This post would suit an existing Consultant in Community or Acute Paediatrics working in other roles within East London, or could be a standalone post.
The post holder will be expected to work alongside the Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist and jointly provide medical leadership to the ARFID Pathway. They will support the team with children and young people aged 8–18 with Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) or suspected ARFID, performing, supervising and managing physical health assessments, liaising with secondary and primary care colleagues, and reviewing/developing protocols to ensure effective and efficient service delivery and joint working with partner agencies, including local acute Trusts.
Main duties of the job
- To be responsible for organising and prioritising own workload in the day-to-day allocation of work within the ARFID Pathway.
- To deputise when required in the ARFID Pathway Lead's absence on paediatric matters and delegate appropriately to other medical staff.
- To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them.
- To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.
- 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's risk register.
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 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
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. The post holder will have full registration with a licence to practise on the General Medical Council (GMC). Further professional knowledge will have been gained through accredited courses, workshops, study and in-house training programmes. To be responsible and accountable for the paediatric physical health input to children and young people on the ARFID Pathway.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MB BS or equivalent
- MRCP / MRCPCH or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- BSc in medical subject
- PhD, MD MSc, DCH
Professional training
Essential Criteria
- Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in Community Child Health or Paediatrics or equivalent (the proposed CCT date must be within 6 months of the interview)
- Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration (CESR) (CESR candidates must have written GMC confirmation upon successful application)
- 6 months Clinical experience of working in Community Paediatrics
Desirable criteria
- SPIN or Diploma in Paediatric Neurodisability
- CCT in community Child health
Clinical Knowledge
Essential Criteria
- Ability to conduct assessments for children in care
- Extensive experience of working in a multidisciplinary Child Development Team and the ability to seek advice from, share experience with, and offer support to other team members
- Competent in management of common general paediatric problems – acute and chronic
- Up to date with Level 3 competences in Safeguarding Children
- able to conduct and supervise of Child Protection Medical Assessments
- Experience working in partnership with Education, Social Care and other stakeholders
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience as Named Dr for Looked after children or Child protection
- has held role of medical advisor for adoption and Experience of writing reports for Adoption panel
- Experience of attending Child death review meetings and/or contributing CDOP Panel
- Current portfolio in research
- Competent use of Griffiths III or other similar developmental assessment tool
- Experience in managing children with complex neurological and developmental problems
- Experience of work in autism
Clinical governance
Essential Criteria
- record of completed audit projects in application.
- service development work and/or Quality Improvement projects in application
Desirable criteria
- experince of NHS complaint handling/ critical incident reporting
- risk management training
Teaching
Essential Criteria
- Experience of under graduate teaching
- Has experience of postgraduate paediatric teaching
Desirable criteria
- Has undertaken ‘train the trainer’ training
- Current portfolio as a medical educator
Medical management
Essential Criteria
- Good verbal and written communication
- experience of supervision of Trainees and/or specialty doctors
- Competent in relevant IT skills required for working in the NHS
Desirable criteria
- Completed management course
- Experience as educational supervisor for trainees
- Evidence of experience in change management in application
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Personal or other skills
Essential Criteria
- Shows decision making and judgement, breadth of thinking and initiative
- Shows adaptability and flexibility in accordance with service needs
- Ability to operate under pressure and cope with setbacks
- Enthusiastic and motivated
- Trustworthy and reliable
- Displays honesty, integrity and awareness of ethical dilemmas
Communication and interpersonal skill
Essential Criteria
- Has good verbal communication skills
- Ability to express complex medical issues in lay terms
- Ability to empathise with people from different backgrounds and demonstrate cultural competency
- Ability to communicate with parents and children effectively, and to explain complex medical conditions and treatment
Desirable criteria
- Ability to champion Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the workplace
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
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