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Main area
Paeds Emergency Medicine
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
Contract
Locum: 1 year
Hours
Full time - 10 sessions per week
Job ref
289-WLCH-LCON-0394
Employer
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
West Middlesex
Town
Isleworth
Closing
05/08/2024 23:59

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Locum Paedriatric Consultant

NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant

About our Trust

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is proud to be one of the top performing and safest trusts in England. We have two main acute hospital sites—Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, plus our award-winning clinics across North West London and beyond.

Our nearly 7,000 members of staff are proud to care for a diverse population of 1.5 million from the beginning to the end of life. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including maternity, emergency and children’s, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, including our award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.

We’re one of the safest and best performing Trusts in the country. We’re also one of the top trusts to work for—our staff say they’re engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.

Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as ‘Good’ in the domains of safe, effective, caring and responsive, and 'Outstanding' in the domains of well-led and use of resources.

Our facilities are among the best in the country. We invest around £10m a year in our estate and have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster.  Works commence in spring 2024 on an ambitious £80m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at our West Middlesex site.

Applications are welcomed from applicants who wish to apply for the position on the basis of a smarter or flexible working arrangement. Where candidates are successful at interview, such requests will be taken under consideration and accommodated where the needs of the service allow. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you.

Job overview

A detailed work programme and a job plan will be arranged and agreed by the appointee with the Service Director in Medicine and the Chief Executive of the Trust. 

The post holders will undertake fixed clinical and non-clinical sessions according to an agreed timetable with other members of the Consultant Team.

The post will be divided into a ratio 8/2 direct clinical care (DCC) / supporting programmed activities (SPA). Specific SPA objectives and outcomes will be agreed with the Service Lead within 3 months of appointment.

The current consultant work pattern provides hands on Consultant ‘shop floor’ presence from 08:00 to 21:00 Monday to Friday, 10am to 19:00 Saturday and Sunday to directly lead and guide the team to provide a high standard of clinical care for patients attending the Paediatric Emergency Department. There are no on call commitments as part of this post. This will change as the PEM consultant group continues to grow.  

The Department is busy, seeing over 169,000 patients per year (20% paediatric) in conjunction with the Urgent Care Centre, achieving a high clinical standard of care and delivering the 95% 4 hour target.  This is achieved through working as a close, co-operative team. 

Main duties of the job

1.              To advise and decide on investigations appropriate to a given situation and in assessing the significance of results.

2.                   To work with the shift-coordinator and site team to ensure the safe and smooth running of the Department.

3.                   To see, treat and discharge or refer ED patients as appropriate.

4.                   To run all Trauma and Cardiac Arrest Calls, or directly supervise a junior clinician running the call for Educational purposes.

5.                   To actively participate in the Clinical governance activities.

6.                   To take part in or lead appropriate research/quality improvement projects.

7.                   To support the training and development of junior medical, nursing and allied health professional staff.

Working for our organisation

Paediatrics Emergency Department (PED) falls within the Emergency Medicine Directorate and the Paediatric services falls within the Children, Young People’s and Neonatal Directorate. The overall approach of the paediatric service is family and child centred with multi-professional teams including paediatric nurses, psychologists, dieticians, physiotherapists, social workers and the Hospital School working together.

 

The dedicated Paediatric Emergency Department and the adjoining UCC, is open 24/7, which treats approximately 34,000 children per year with 18,000 being referred to PED.  It is co-located with the main Emergency Department with a separate audio-visual waiting room.

 

The PEM team is comprised of 4 PEM consultants, PEM registrars, Advanced Care Practitioner, CT3/JCF/FT2 doctors who have designated shifts in the PED, CESR doctors competing their secondments in PEM, as well as being entirely staffed by paediatric nurses.

Our department is a 9 bedded space, including an HDU space, a mental health room, a separate isolation room and a paediatric dedicated bay in the 4 bedded resuscitation area.

The Paediatric Emergency Departments is undergoing major service and workforce review and developments.  The department is establishing a dedicated junior paediatric emergency team including advanced nurse practitioners.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the Job description for further details.

 

Please contact Dr Amelia Shehadeh ([email protected])

Person specification

Essential

Essential criteria
  • MBBS or equivalent
  • GMC Registration
  • MRCP or equivalent
  • Experience of working with children

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Trust IDWe are a Living Wage EmployerCapital Nurse, LondonHealthy Workplace - Commitment 2018Veteran AwareApprenticeships logoTimewise helps businesses to attract and develop the best talent through flexible working.No smoking policyCare quality commission - GoodDisability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Step into healthArmed Forces Covenant Bronze AwardArmed Forces Covenant

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Amelia Shehadeh
Job title
Paedriatric Consultant
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0208 560 2121
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