Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatric
- Grade
- Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 197-AA6574
- Employer
- Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Queen Elizabeth Hospital
- Town
- Woolwich
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 10
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/04/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 29/05/2025
Employer heading
Consultant Paediatrician with interest in Neonates
Consultant
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.
Job overview
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust are looking to appoint a substantive Consultant general Paediatrician with an interest in Neonates and neonatal developmental assessment to deliver a combined neonatal and general paediatric service and manage a clinical caseload both in- and out-patient.
This is a new post, created following investment in the paediatric and neonatal services at LGT.
The post holder will have responsibility to deliver and manage a Level 2 NNU service. The Neonatal Consultant team work a 6-week rolling rota. This includes a service week for the Level 2 Neonatal Unit (NNU). As part of the NNU week, the consultant also directly supervises the teaching and training programme.
The other 5 weeks are dedicated to outpatient clinics, SPA activity, specialty service, annual and study leave. A morning a week during the other 5 weeks provides cover for the Paediatric Assessment Unit and in reach to Paeds ED. The on-call commitment is 1 in 6 weekdays and 1 in 6 weekends.
During clinic weeks it is anticipated that the post holder will perform 2 clinics per week.
Main duties of the job
Clinical Responsibilities:
Together with the other paediatricians, to provide a service for children on the QEH site in neonatal paediatrics and acute general paediatrics. This includes all aspects of treatment and relevant management duties for the proper functioning of the department as per the job plan.
Shared responsibility with the other Paediatricians for providing 24-hour, 7 day a week cover for the Local neonatal unit on a rota basis. Responsible also for covering colleague’s periods of annual leave and short-term sickness.
To take responsibility for patients on the local neonatal unit on the relevant service weeks, liaise with nursing staff and the wider multidisciplinary team e.g. labour ward.
To be responsible with his/her colleagues for seeing babies and infants requiring neurodevelopmental follow up in the children’s outpatients clinic, helping the children / young people and their families with education and support both in clinic and outside clinic and in providing any necessary advice to general paediatric and neonatal colleagues.
To be aware of and deal with safeguarding issues as required and to manage patients with advice from the safeguarding team.
Carry out outpatient duties with appropriate administration and patient follow up.
Be aware of and assist in divisional objectives through clinical work e.g. Electronic discharges within 24 hours, DNA rates, infection control.
Standard operating procedure of consultant responsibilities is currently being finalised.
Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This is a substantive consultant post in paediatrics at Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust. It is a new post, with sub-speciality interest in neonatology and neurodevelopment. We are looking for a dedicated and enthusiastic consultant paediatrician, who is committed to maintaining the highest standards in patient care, and who shares in the team vision to develop the paediatric services at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust.
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Sample Job Plan: 10PA
Hot week – 1 in week in 6, occurs 9 times per annum
|
|
Mon |
Tues |
Wed |
Thurs |
Fri |
|
0830-1700 |
LNU cover including handover round, reviewing patients on Neonatal unit and unit meetings
|
LNU cover including handover round, reviewing patients on Neonatal unit and unit meetings |
LNU cover including handover round, reviewing patients on Neonatal unit and unit meetings |
LNU cover including handover round, reviewing patients on Neonatal unit and unit meetings |
LNU cover including handover round, reviewing patients on Neonatal unit and unit meetings
On call overnight |
|
PA |
2.125 PA DCC |
2.125PA DCC |
2.125PA DCC |
2.125PA DCC |
2.125PA DCC |
10.625PA DCC
Weekend on call 1 in 6 weeks HOT occurs 9 times per annum
|
|
Sat |
Sun |
|
AM |
0830-1600 On site ward round LNU and postnatal queries |
0830-1600 On site ward round LNU and postnatal queries |
|
PM |
1600-next morning non resident on call |
1600-next morning non resident on call |
|
PA |
2.5PA DCC |
2.5PA DCC |
5PA DCC
Post weekend non hot weeks Mon – Fri occurs 9 times per annum
|
|
Mon |
Tues |
Wed |
Thurs |
Fri |
|
AM |
0830-0900 Virtual handover then OFF |
0900-1300 Clinic admin |
OFF |
0900-1300 DCC |
0900-1300 SPA including educational supervision |
|
PM |
1300-1700 Neonatal grand round and journal club (virtual) |
1300-1700 Neurodevelopmental clinic alternating with General clinic
|
OFF |
1300-1400 Perinatal meeting / SPA 1400-1700 DCC |
1300-1400 departmental meeting 1400-1700 SPA |
|
PA |
1.125 DCC |
2 DCC |
0 |
2 (1.75 DCC, 0.25 SPA) |
2 SPA |
7.125PA (4.875DCC / 2.25SPA)
Non hot weeks Mon- Fri occurs 24 times per annum
|
|
Mon |
Tues |
Wed |
Thurs |
Fri |
|
AM |
0900-1300 General Clinic |
0900-1300 Clinic admin |
OFF |
0830-1300 Hippo (ambulatory unit) cover |
0900-1300 SPA including educational supervision |
|
PM |
1300-1700 Neonatal grand round and journal club |
1300-1700 Neurodevelopmental clinic alternating with General clinic
|
OFF |
1300-1700 Perinatal meeting then SPA
On call overnight
|
1300-1700 1-2pm departmental meeting 2-5pm SPA |
|
PA |
2PA DCC |
2PA DCC |
0 |
2.125PA (1.125DCC, 1SPA) |
2PA (2 SPA) |
8.125PA (5.125DCC / 3SPA)
On call
Non-resident on call- 30 min evening includes handover Mon- Thurs =0.125PA
Unpredictable on call 0.425PA
On call supplement 5%
On call duties cover the LNU service only.
Annualised PA
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|
PA over 52-week calendar year |
10 PA per week over 42 week working year |
|
Hot weeks |
9 x 10.625 PA = 95.625 PA |
2.27 PA |
|
Weekend on call |
9 x 5PA= 45 PA |
1.07 PA |
|
On call – predictable on call+ unpredictable on call |
0.55PA per week |
0.55 PA |
|
Post weekend weeks Mon- Fri |
9 x 7.125 = 64.13 PA |
1.52 PA |
|
Other non hot weeks |
24 x 8.125 = 195 PA |
4.64 PA |
Total 10PA per week including 2.2SPA
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Medical degree, MBBS or equivalent MRCP/MRCPCH or equivalent Full and Specialist registration (and with a licence to practise) with the General Medical Council (GMC) or be eligible for registration within six months of interview. Applicants that are UK trained, must also be a holder of a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT), or be within six months of award of CCT by date of interview. Applicants that are non-UK trained, they will be required to show evidence of equivalence to the UK CCT and be on the GMC Specialist Register/Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration (CESR) application in a non-CCT specialty awaiting approval. NLS, APLS/EPLS provider status (up to date). Child Protection/Safeguarding training (minimum Level 3) up to date.
Desirable criteria
- Experience demonstrating an interest in neonatology. Experience demonstrating an interest in neonatal / paediatric neurodevelopment. Training in neonatal / paediatric neurodevelopment.
Clinical Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience and training equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT in Paediatrics. Recent experience/familiarity of UK hospital systems and practices. Experience in managing children in the acute ward (NICU and general), ambulatory and outpatient setting. Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on and manage a range of problems in the acute Paediatric setting, including safeguarding issues. Ability to deal with complex clinical situations in the core areas of the post.
Desirable criteria
- Experience working independently at Consultant Level. Broad experience of working within the NHS Experience in Performing Neurodevelopmental assessments using standard tools.
Clinical Audit
Essential criteria
- Experience running a quality improvement project. Shows an understanding of clinical governance, patient safety and corporate risk. Understanding of NHS systems and audit processes Evidence of service improvement projects and audits
Desirable criteria
- Quality improvement project relating to neonatology / General Paediatrics. Evidence of involvement and /or experience in risk processes such as Serious Incident reviews and patient safety systems
Teaching Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience and interest in undergraduate teaching Skill and ability in formal and informal teaching for both under/ postgraduate students and nursing/midwifery staff Educational supervision accreditation Experience of supervising junior doctors at all grades.
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience in trainee Supervision Higher teaching qualification
Management and Administrative Experience
Essential criteria
- Understands the management structure of the NHS Evidence of risk management. Ability to manage and lead a multidisciplinary team. Appropriate understanding of NHS directives regarding consultant clinical practice including clinical governance. Ability to prioritise administrative tasks and to work co-operatively with administrative and clerical staff
Desirable criteria
- Training/experience in NHS management. Experience in managing and leading specialist unit, directorate teams and working parties as appropriate.
IT skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to use Microsoft office packages, e.g. MS Word, Excel, Access & PowerPoint. Ability to use patient information systems
Research Experience
Essential criteria
- Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems.
Desirable criteria
- Publications in peer-reviewed journals. Previous research experience. Presentations at National or International meetings
Other Attributes
Essential criteria
- Effective communicator – verbal and written. Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team. Demonstrates leadership and organisational skills Evidence of interest/training in management Will contribute to Departmental/ Trust management. Will pursue personal professional development. Will assist with Departmental/ Trust development. Aware of equal opportunities issues Ability to lead a team and form effective working relationships. Ability to inspire, motivate and develop staff.
Desirable criteria
- Has experience of committee work and prepared to undertake committee work.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Olutoyin Banjoko
- Job title
- Clinical Lead for Paediatrics QEH
- Email address
- [email protected]
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