NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
Consultant Paediatrician, Neurodevelopmental
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Consultant Paediatrician
CONTRACT: 10 Programmed Activities (10 PAs) Full Time, Substantive post
BASE: The Acorn Centre, London Road, Romford, RM7 9NH
Flexible working available
The post is for 10 sessions Consultant Paediatrician in the BHR Neurodevelopmental service. 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 support with clinical and operational leadership as part of a newly established Neurodevelopmental service for children 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.
The post holder will contribute as the Consultant Paediatrician in Havering for the BHR Neurodevelopmental service and will work alongside the team of substantive Paediatric and CAMHS consultants. The successful applicant will also become part of a large (30+ community paediatricians), dynamic, community paediatric team, across the whole of Northeast London Foundation Trust.
Part of the post-holders’ duties will include service development, service evaluation, and applied research.
The expectation of the post holder will be to support their team, department, and organisation to follow the Trust’s Values in their day-to-day work.
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Main Responsibilities
- To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others’ workload in the day-to-day allocation of work.
- To deputise when required in the team manager’s absence 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.
- The post holder will support the development of the Autism/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.
- Leverage opportunities to develop the integrated multidisciplinary Neurodevelopmental service across BHR.
- Provide a high-quality, accessible, timely, efficient, effective, comprehensive, and specialist Neurodevelopmental service for children and young people, their carers/parents, and families.
- 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 Autism service.
- Responsible for assessment, treatment, and systemic outcome measurement in the specialist care pathway.
- Contribute to coordination and service development within the Neurodevelopmental service.
- Managing waiting list within specialist care pathway and ensuring waiting lists are at clinically safe level. Prioritise resources in line with clinical needs.
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Clinical Skills
- To act as an autonomous, registered practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for their 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 practice from 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 service delivery to clients/patients.
- To be able to assess and develop care plans to meet the complex needs of patients with a variety of conditions, recognising own limitations and seeking advice when necessary. This will include continuously evaluating and acting on outcomes.
- To be able to initiate referrals to other health professional specialist services and agencies.
- To provide patients and relatives with information and education thus ensuring they have meaningful choices that promote dignity, independence, and quality of life.
- To ensure practice is supported by research, evidence-based practice, literature, and peer review.
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