Job summary
- Main area
- Community Paedaitrics Locum Consultant
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Extenision of post possibilty)
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week (n/a)
- Job ref
- 321-NOTS-MS-6382409-S1
- Employer
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- John Radcliffe
- Town
- Oxford
- Salary
- £99,532 - £131,964 0
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/07/2024 23:59
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Locum Consultant in Community Paediatrics
NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Many of our recruitment programmes use values-based interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significance difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families.
For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit http://www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values/default.aspx
Job overview
Applications are invited to apply for the above post in the Department of Community Paediatrics, Oxford Children’s Hospital, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford.
An opportunity has risen for one less than full time locum Consultant post in our department. This is a replacement post. The successful applicant will join a team of 10 Consultant Community Paediatricians. The post-holder’s clinical core commitments will include Community Paediatrics/neurodisability assessments including secondary level assessment and management of children with developmental difficulties, special educational needs, and child protection medicals. The post holder will be responsible for providing Community Paediatric/Neurodisability care to children and families living in a defined area of Oxfordshire, and includes clinics within special schools. Clinical work will include a range of activities including clinical assessment, multidisciplinary assessments, supervising specialist registrar/speciality doctor and contributing to the departmental child protection rota.
Appropriate administrative support will be provided.
Our community paediatrics department has a dynamic and vibrant training programme with excellent links to the children’s specialist services. In addition the applicant will be involved in teaching both under- and post-graduates students and training community Paediatric higher specialist trainees.
Main duties of the job
The postholder’s duties will be based in the Community Paediatrics Department at the John Radcliffe Hospital but it is a condition of the appointment that the postholder will be willing to work in any of the Trust’s locations, throughout the county, and to attend meetings with Social Services Departments and other partner agencies.
Clinical
The post-holder’s commitments will include routine Community Paediatrics/Neurodisability assessments including secondary level review and management of children with developmental difficulties, special educational needs, overseeing and monitoring multidisciplinary assessment processes and child protection assessments. The post holder will provide community/neurodisability care for a defined geographical patch and for a special school. The department runs a Monday-Friday 9am-5pm on-call system for child protection. The child protection workload is therefore not limited to fixed sessions each week, as cover may be needed at other times.
Clinical work will include a range of activities including clinical assessment, multidisciplinary assessments, supervising specialist registrar/speciality doctor and contributing to the departmental child protection rota.
Working for our organisation
1. The post is covered by the national Terms and Conditions of Service of Hospital Medical and Dental Staff (England and Wales) and the Conditions of Service determined by the General Whitley Council for the Health Services (Great Britain), as amended from time to time. As the Trust develops it will review these terms and may vary the national agreements to respond to local conditions and reflect Trust requirements following negotiation with the BMA Local Negotiating Committee.
2. The new consultant will be required to maintain his/her private residence in contact with the public telephone service, and to reside within ten miles by road from John Radcliffe Hospital unless specific written approval for a greater distance is given by the Medical Director of the Trust.
3. The successful candidate must hold full registration and licence to practice with the GMC.
4. The successful candidate must have CCT (or equivalent for non-UK applicants of equivalent status), or be accredited (or equivalent), and be on the GMC Specialist Register in the specialty appropriate for the consultant post at the time of taking up the consultant appointment.
5. The successful candidate is not required to subscribe to a recognised professional defence organisation to fulfil his/her contractual obligations to this Trust, but should ensure he/she has adequate defence cover as appropriate, for example, for private and Category 2 work, and for GMC disciplinary proceedings.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Outline Job Plan Weekly provisional Programmed Activities
An indicative timetable and Job Plan is outlined below. Working days can vary based upon the service requirements and with mutual agreement with the service lead. The final Job Plan for the post will be agreed with the clinical director upon appointment and will be subject to renegotiation at least annually.
Day |
Time |
Location |
Work |
Categorisation |
No. of PAs |
Monday |
9am-3pm |
CHOX |
Neurodevelopmental assessments and report writing (MDA + NDC/CAMHS liaison) |
DCC |
1.5 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Tuesday
|
9am-1pm |
CHOX/School |
Special School clinic (12 per year) or Permanency medical assessment (A+F) |
DCC |
1 |
1-5pm |
CHOX |
Child protection on call |
DCC |
1 |
|
Wednesday |
9am-1pm |
|
Special school clinic admin or Permanency medical report writing |
DCC |
1 |
13.00 – 17.00 |
CHOX |
CPD, teaching HST, journal club, training and audit, peer review, Directorate grand rounds, Educational supervision, teaching medical students, examining, ARCP panel work, CSU Consultant meeting |
SPA |
1 |
|
Thursday |
9am-1pm |
|
Neurodevelopment patch clinic |
DCC |
1 |
1-5pm |
|
Clinic admin |
DCC |
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Friday
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
0 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Saturday
|
|
|
|
|
0 |
Sunday
|
|
|
|
|
0 |
Additional agreed activity to be worked flexibly |
|
|
|
|
0 |
Predictable emergency on-call work |
|
|
|
Direct clinical care |
0 |
Unpredictable emergency on-call work |
Variable |
On-site, at home on the telephone and travelling to and from site |
|
Direct clinical care |
0 |
TOTAL PAs |
|
7.5 |
Programmed activity
|
Number |
Direct clinical care (including unpredictable on-call)
|
6.5 |
Supporting professional activities
|
1 |
Other NHS responsibilities
|
0 |
External duties
|
0 |
TOTAL PROGRAMMED ACTIVITIES
|
7.5 |
Anticipated on-call availability supplement
Agreed on-call rota e.g. 1 in 5:
Agreed category (delete):
On-call supplement %:
Person specification
Professional Registration
Essential criteria
- Full GMC registration
Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- MRCPCH, MRCP or equivalent
- CCT/CESR with Registration on GMC Specialist
- Register in Paediatrics or within 6 months of CCT at the time of interview.
- CCT in Community Paediatrics or equivalent experience in Community Paediatrics (or within 6 months of CCT at time of interview)
- Trained to level 3 safeguarding / Child Protection
Experience
Essential criteria
- Comprehensive training in Community Paediatrics including children safeguarding work
- Must have held hospital appointments in Paediatrics at SHO/ST1-3 and registrar/ST4-8 level
- Evidence of ability to make independent decisions at Consultant level and to manage complex clinical problems
Desirable criteria
- Experience and training in writing child protection reports, in providing advice about child protection cases and attending case conferences and court room experience
- Significant experience in the assessment and management of children who may have experience sexual abuse
- Locum Consultant Experience preferably in Community Paediatrics
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to lead a team of professionals
- Effective administrative and time management skills.
- Evidence of significant contribution to successful teamwork
- Experience of formal and informal contributions to teaching and training.
- Evidence of effective and sustained contribution to clinical governance, clinical risk management and clinical audit activities.
- Experience of conducting clinical audits
Desirable criteria
- Management qualification
- Knowledge of the organisation of the NHS and the Government’s agenda for its modernisation
- Computing skills; ability to use a word processor, spread sheet programme and web browser.
- Training or experience in difficult communications
- Education qualification
- Interest in teaching with portfolio of teaching and training achievements.
- Evidence of service improvement
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
- Sarah Haden
- Job title
- Clinical Lead for Community Paediatrics
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865 231995
- Additional information
Candidates are highly recommended to visit the department and hospital and are invited to contact Dr Sarah Haden, Clinical Lead for Community Paediatrics, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, The John Radcliffe (Tel: Oxford (01865 231995) or Dr Shelley Segal, Clinical Director for Children’s Services (Tel: 01865 572897).
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