Named Doctor for Safeguarding

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

The post-holder will be fully accredited in General Paediatrics and/or Community Child Health. Excellent communication and liaison skills and the ability to work within a multidisciplinary team are essential. The department proactively promotes clinical governance, and the appointee should be able to demonstrate skills in audit, risk management, and evidence-based guidelines. As a University hospital, there is a strong commitment to teaching medical students and junior doctors. The post holder is expected to play an active role in all undergraduate and postgraduate training activities.

The post will be based in the department of Community Paediatrics at Hackney Ark with clinical sessions undertaken at the Hackney Ark and other Community venues as required. There will be an average of 6.5 PA of direct clinical care and 1.5 PA allocated for supporting professional activities. As a senior employee of the Trust, the post holder will work in close cooperation with and support other clinical, medical, professional, and managerial colleagues in providing high quality, safe health care to patients.

As a department, we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This includes asking certain groups of staff to work more flexibly, for example, the opportunity of holding remote clinics, which may allow working from home at times.

Main duties of the job

The post will be based in the department of Community Paediatrics at Hackney Ark with clinical sessions undertaken at the Hackney Ark and other Community venues as required. There will be an average of 6.5 PA of direct clinical care and 1.5 PA allocated for supporting professional activities. As a senior employee of the Trust, the post holder will work in close cooperation with and support other clinical, medical, professional, and managerial colleagues in providing high quality, safe health care to patients.

About us

Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a medium-sized local hospital providing acute and community health services for Hackney, The City, and surrounding communities and also provides a range of specialist services for a much wider population.

We provide general hospital and community services to Hackney and the City of London, and specialist care in obstetrics, neonatology, fetal medicine, fertility, bariatric surgery, and neuro rehabilitation across east London and beyond.

As a foundation trust, Homerton has greater freedom from the Department of Health to enable it to be more responsive to local healthcare needs and have greater accountability to the patients and public it serves.

Job responsibilities

Main Responsibilities:

Clinical Responsibilities

1. Specific responsibility for Community Paediatrics in Patch Neurodevelopmental Clinic

1. Provision and supervision of a weekly multidisciplinary neurodevelopment clinic for the assessment and management of children with developmental delays and disabilities at the Hackney Ark.
2. Support to HVs, GPs, schools, and nurseries.
3. Attendance at Multi-agency Referral meeting (MARS).
4. Lead role within the Community Safeguarding Children team to support the Trust in meeting its responsibilities to safeguard children. This includes all aspects of child abuse, neglect, fabricated illness, and sexual abuse and close working with other Safeguarding professionals in the Trust to plan and deliver services.
5. Delivery and supervision of the Wellbeing Clinic at Hackney Ark. Management of and participation in the daily child protection rota in community paediatrics.
6. Supporting and delivering safeguarding children training across the Trust. Leading on maintaining departmental safeguarding training compliance and peer review.
7. Advisory role in safeguarding matters across the Trust and borough-wide agencies e.g. Children's Social Care, Police.
8. Participation in multi-agency and regulatory Trust groups e.g. City and Hackney Safeguarding Children's Board subcommittees.
9. Support for colleagues with preparation of documents in relation to safeguarding cases e.g. court reports, chronologies. Participation in serious case reviews, case reviews, and internal management reviews.
10. Provision of and support for effective safeguarding supervision of colleagues.
11. Maintaining their own appropriate levels of safeguarding competency, peer review, and supervision.
12. Monthly contribution to North East London CSA Hub at Royal London Hospital.
13. Taking an active role, together with colleagues within the Trust, in seeing children with child protection concerns.
14. Lead on running of monthly child protection peer review within the team.

3. Neonatal Follow Up (INDS) Clinic

1. Provision of developmental follow up clinic for preterm infants (INDS) working closely with the neonatal paediatricians and their follow up service.
2. Includes multidisciplinary assessment and therapy service carried out between the Homerton Hospital and the Hackney Ark.

Person Specification Qualifications

1. MBBS or equivalent.
2. MRCPCH or equivalent.
3. On GMC Specialist Register with full GMC registration.
4. CCT / CESR Paediatrics (or specialty trainee eligible for CCT within 6 months of interview date - the applicant should be able to produce evidence that he/she is within 6 months of CCT date and is expected to achieve a CCT).
5. Subspecialty recognition in community paediatrics and/or neurodisability.
6. Management course.

Experience

1. Higher Specialist training in Community Child Health, Neurodisability or including experience in the management of children with disabilities.
2. Experience in working with children of school age with a disability.
3. Definitive Training and/or experience in Child Protection.
4. Up to date with Level 3 Child Protection.
5. Experience in evidence-based practice.

Knowledge & Expertise

1. Ability to work on own initiative unsupervised and make decisions.
2. Excellent communication skills (written and oral) and ability to develop good working relationships.
3. Demonstrated ability to manage time effectively.
4. Team-player with experience of multidisciplinary working and liaison across organisation boundaries.
5. Special knowledge relevant to community paediatrics in an inner city area of high deprivation.
6. Specific experience in tone management, botox, and/or epilepsy.
7. Accreditation in standardised developmental assessment tool e.g. Griffiths.
8. Participation in quality improvement or clinical audit.
9. Undergraduate and Postgraduate teaching/training skills.
10. Insight into research methods and evaluation.
11. Publications.
12. Experience of Educational Supervision, Teaching Skills, Course such as Training the Trainers.

Management

1. Understanding of management issues and service planning.
2. Demonstrated ability to manage a service, team, or project.
3. Formal management training.

Personal Attributes

1. Able to travel across Hackney in order to meet the requirements of the post.
2. Good organisational skills.
3. Commitment to continuing professional development.
4. Experience of multicultural and ethnic communities.

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.

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Joint Clinical Lead & Consultant Comm Paeds

£105,504 to £139,882 a year per annum pro rata.