Job overview

**This position is open to staff working at the Trust in the ‘ECT Family’ this includes current East Cheshire NHS Trust employees, both NHSP and ECT bank staff, ISS staff and volunteers at the Trust. Unfortunately, we cannot accept applications from applicants not listed within these groups.**

Applications are invited for a Locum Consultant Paediatrician to join the Paediatric Team at Macclesfield District General Hospital.

The Paediatric service is run by a highly motivated team that provides a fully integrated acute and community Paediatric service with a dedicated Children’s Ward, Paediatrics Outpatient Department and Neonatal Unit.

The successful candidate will join a team of 7 Acute Paediatric Consultants. We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated general paediatrician to join our team to cover parental leave. The existing team have a variety of specialisms and applicants with a special interest in  nephrology  would complement the specialisms already held within the department, however,  all special interests will be considered. The role holder will contribute to the general paediatric clinical work including a 1 in 7 emergency cover rota. We have full middle-grade and SHO tiers  and a team of specialist nurses.

The attached job description outlines full details about this post. 

Hours per week: 6.2 PA's

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be expected to work flexibly to deliver high quality care with particular emphasis on:

• Optimising use of all resources allocated to the post to develop appropriate services and techniques required to meet clinical needs
• Work together with colleagues to ensure effective management of cross-specialty referrals, in-patients, and outpatient clinic programmed activities
• Adapt, assimilate and integrate best practice from elsewhere to continuously improve care
• Develop and maintain robust systems to ensure effective clinical audit in the specialty as appropriate, inclusive of undertaking personal audit
• Further develop services as indicated by department needs and work with colleagues to identify additional resources needed to develop the service
• Clinical assessment, resuscitation and timely onward referral, admission or discharge of all types of patients attending the department. It is expected that Consultants will lead the department during rostered sessions, maintaining situational awareness and redeploying staff to address resource-demand mismatches.

Working for our organisation

NHS Medical and Dental salaries are set at a national level.  For new starters not already working to UK Medical and Dental terms and conditions of service will be appointed to the minimum paypoint.  The starting salary paypoint can only be increased when there is evidence of relevant, completed year’s experience in terms of nature, type and level of role.  The evidence required to increase a starting salary would be Payslips and details noted in the application form i.e. complete employment history

Please be aware that this post requires an Enhanced with Barred list Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, the cost of which is payable by the successful candidate.

If you have lived or worked abroad for 6 months or more in the last 5 years you will need to obtain an overseas police clearance. Further information can be found on the additional information links at the bottom of the advert.

COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters as part of ongoing monitoring.