The post holder will contribute as the Consultant Paediatrician in Redbridge who represents the medical team in meetings with the Redbridge local authority SEN service, working alongside therapy and operational leads. 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.

• We are kind
• We are respectful
• We work with our communities

1.2 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 medical advice for EHC Plans, working alongside the multidisciplinary specialist team and local authority. They will contribute towards assessment and relevant investigations and supervising MDT colleagues. They will produce reports to contribute to statutory work, including EHC plans.
• 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.
• Contribute to coordination and service development within the SENpathway.
• Managing waiting list within specialist care pathway and ensuring waiting lists are at clinically safe level. Prioritise resources in line with clinical needs.
• Be responsible for providing clinical leadership for special schools work, including providing medicals at one or more schools.

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.