Consultant Community Paediatrician

Consultant in Community Paediatrics and Medical Advisor for Adoption Haringey.

Whittington Health are seeking to employ a Consultant in Community Paediatrics to join the Haringey community team and to fill the role of Medical Advisor for Adoption Haringey. This is an eight PA post. There is no out-of-hour on call commitment attached to this post.

We have a strong Children Looked After medical team with experienced nurses and good administrative support. The department offers excellent experience and training in neurodisability and safeguarding with the flexibility to offer the right candidate a bespoke timetable that reflects their interests.

If you have experience in Community Paediatrics and working with Children Looked After, we would like to hear from you. Excellent clinical paediatric skills and written and verbal communication are essential, as is strong team working.

The post holder will be based at the all-new child development centre in the vibrant Seven Sisters area in Haringey and will work closely within a multidisciplinary team to provide holistic care to children with a wide range of special needs and disabilities.

Interview date: 16 October 2024.

Main duties of the job

Please see the full Job Description and the Person Specification for further details about the job role.

Job responsibilities

Duties of the post

Medical Advisor for Adoption

• Carrying out/supervising health assessments for children going for adoption.
• Providing an adoption medical report referring to all previous health assessments, analysing past medical health and commenting on future implications to the child.
• Meeting prospective adopters and sharing information in a way that can be understood by a layperson and providing advice to inform adoption support plans.
• Providing a written report to the agency on the health of prospective adopters, analysing impact on child's health and wellbeing, and impact on parenting capacity of applicants.
• Attendance at adoption (permanence) panel by reviewing all medical reports (adults and children) on the panel agenda, identifying any issues that require specific advice and facilitating discussion at panel.
• Prospective adopter training, which involves teaching at the adoption preparation workshops on health issues for looked after children and the impact of trauma on development.

Role as part of the Haringey Community Paediatric Medical Team

The post holder will contribute to the child protection rota as part of the Community Paediatrics team. This involves being the on-call consultant for safeguarding and attending the weekly peer review clinical meeting as part of the senior child protection team.

The post holder will work within the neurodevelopmental service, contributing to the autism diagnostic assessment, Neurodevelopmental Clinics, and Special School Clinics.

Training Responsibilities

The post holder will play an active part in the supervision and training of speciality trainees working within the department. Speciality trainees rotate through the department from the North Middlesex Hospital as part of their core training.

Person Specification Qualifications

• GMC registration.
• MBBS or equivalent.
• On the GMC's Specialist Register OR within six months of CCT at time of interview or equivalent of CCT in Paediatrics or Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration (CESR) application awaiting approval.
• Level 4 Safeguarding training, Valid APLS and NLS.
• Grid training in Community Paediatrics.
• MSc/Diploma in Community Child Health or relevant subject.

Experience

• Experience in paediatrics, neurodisability, child protection, Looked After Children.
• Experience of working in multi-disciplinary team and with multi-agency partners.
• Experienced in the holistic assessment of children with complex needs and able to provide a written report detailing this information.
• Experience of undertaking statutory health assessments of looked after children and adoption medicals.
• Special interest in an area in Community Child Health.
• Experience of working in multi-disciplinary team and with multi-agency partners.

Skills

• High standards of clinical skills in the assessment of children referred for safeguarding concerns.
• High standards of clinical skills in the assessment of children with developmental conditions including autism.
• Sound understanding of the complex needs and outcomes of children in care and how to support them.
• Teamworking skills to work effectively in a multi-disciplinary team and with multi-agency colleagues.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills including report writing and court attendances.
• Evidence of effective membership on a safeguarding committee or adoption panel.

Management

• Demonstrated good leadership skills.
• Evidence of holding leadership/ strategic roles.

Education/Teaching

• Commitment to learning and continuing professional development.
• Experience of teaching and provision of clinical supervision.
• Good presentation skills, evidence of presentation at local/ departmental level.
• Evidence of commitment to training, e.g. formal teaching skills course, clinical/ educational supervision course.
• Educational supervision accreditation.
• Presentations at national or international meetings.

Research/Audit

• Completed audits or quality improvement projects that have had a positive impact on clinical practice.
• Understanding of research methodology and ability to apply research findings in clinical practice.
• Publication in peer-reviewed journals.
• Evidence of completion of research and publication (or in process).

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£99,532 to £131,964 a year (pro rata).