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Job summary

Main area
Paediatrics
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Contract
10 months (Fixed Term end date: 3rd October 2025)
Hours
Full time - 8.5 sessions per week
Job ref
279-WTGFTCONPAED&NEO-368
Employer
279 University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Worthing Hospital and must be prepared to travel to all sites within the Trust
Town
Worthing
Salary
£105,504 - £139,882 per annum pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
03/12/2024 23:59

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Fixed Term Consultant in Paediatrics & Neonatology

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

 

Job overview

We are recruiting an 8.5 PA fixed term Consultant Paediatrician to be based at Worthing Hospital.  This post has arisen to cover maternity leave from the end of December 2024 until 3rd October 2025. As a General Paediatric Consultant the candidate will be responsible for delivering high quality paediatric care to neonates, children, and young people within the outpatient and inpatient settings in the Worthing area.
 
We are looking for an engaging and enthusiastic professional, who is fully committed to the ideals of the RCPCH and the values of our UHSussex Trust. Potential candidates should be keen to drive forward standards and work with a motivated multidisciplinary team including consultants, junior doctors, nurses, midwives, physiotherapists, dieticians and other members of tertiary specialist services either within the Trust or from Tertiary referral centres.  
 
We encourage candidates who may be interested in this post to make contact and arrange a visit to see the department, meet our team, and ask any questions you may have to fully understand the role. 

Main duties of the job

This General Paediatric with level 1 Neonates role will be based on 8.5 PAs to include 7.5 DCC PAs and 1 SPA. Daytime working during non-attending weeks will be delivered Wednesday-Friday. 
 
The consultant will undertake twice weekly outpatient general paediatric clinics. Outpatient department sessions give any successful candidate the opportunity to see new and follow-up general paediatric patients in an outpatient setting locally. 
 
You will participate in the Consultant of the week rota at a frequency of  1:10 weeks. These attending weeks run Monday-Friday. During consultant of the week attending sessions you will have the opportunity to manage the acute general paediatric and level 1 neonatal wards, utilising an MDT of nurses, doctors, physios and dieticians. There will be opportunities to develop management and leadership qualities during these sessions, as well as an opportunity to carry out bedside teaching to our enthusiastic junior doctors and medical students.
 
This post includes sessions spent supporting patient flow through the children’s day unit ensuring timely senior decision making and offering supervision and support to junior colleagues.   
 
The post includes non-resident Consultant on call duties at a frequency of 1:7.5 weekdays (expected to be delivered flexibly across the working week), and 1:9 weekends. 
 

Working for our organisation

Join us at UHSussex, every day is different, you can be the change, better never stops

At UHSussex we’re proud to be at the heart of the NHS. As one of the UK’s largest acute Trusts, we’re a leading example of the excellence, the ambition and the values that have embodied the NHS for over 70 years.

Improving lives: We are a vibrant and inclusive organisation, with hardworking, talented and dedicated individuals, who work together towards a common goal, to always put our Patient First.  Our mission is summed up by our ‘where better never stops’ motto and no matter the role at UHSussex, you will play a part in driving us forwards and in improving the lives of patients across Sussex.  We treat our patients and staff with the same compassion and empathy we expect for ourselves. We’re here for them when they need us, and we go above and beyond to meet their needs. This can be seen in our wellbeing programme for staff which is extensive and designed to support you when you need it because we know that to look after others we must first look after ourselves.

Build a career with us: As a university trust and a leader in healthcare research, we value learning, teaching and training so that we can be the best that we can be. From the moment you start with us and throughout your career we will help you to grow and develop. We hope that in choosing UHSussex you are choosing a long and happy career where you will be able to see the difference you make and feel valued for all that you do.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Consultant of the week attending session 1:10 weeks. Monday to Friday 9-5pm. 
•    Lead Ward rounds on general paediatric wards daily, and Neonatal wards when the need arises. 
•    Respond to neonatal and paediatric emergency calls with the resus team, with expectation to take a lead role within the team. 
•    Be responsible for the management of new patients admitted to the wards or treated on the CYPDU(children and young person day unit) during attending weeks, as well as being responsible for follow up plans and clinics for those same patients.
 
Non-resident on-call weekdays 5pm to 9am, weekends 48hrs Saturday to Monday 9am-9am 
•    Carry out ward rounds on weekends followed by non-resident on-call from home. 
•    To be available to attend from home for clinical reasons, and to be contacted over the phone for clinical and operational advice. 
•    To provide support and guidance to the resident paediatric junior doctors and nurses
 
Standard working week (when not attending) Wednesday – Friday. Delivering:
•    2 General outpatient clinic sessions
•    2 CYPDU clinical sessions
•    1 SPA
•    1 Admin session
 
Please see the job description and person specification attached to the advert for further details of the post.

Person specification

Experience & Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • • Basic medical degree
  • • MRCPCH or appropriate specialist qualification
  • • Full GMC Registration with a licence to practice
  • • CCT in Paediatrics or equivalent (equivalence must be confirmed by GMC by date of AAC)
  • • Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register or eligibility for entry within 6 months of the date of the AAC
Desirable criteria
  • • Higher degree eg MSc

Clinical Skills & Experience

Essential criteria
  • • Relevant post registration experience
  • • Appropriate acute general paediatric clinical skills
  • • Appropriate neonatal clinical skills
  • • Child Safeguarding Level 3
  • • Advanced Paediatric Life Support (APLS) or equivalent
  • • Neonatal Life Support (NLS) or equivalent
  • • Understanding of clinical risk management
Desirable criteria
  • • Experience in other related specialties

Knowledge

Desirable criteria
  • Breadth of experience in and outside specialty

Organisation & Planning

Essential criteria
  • • Experience and ability to work in multi-professional teams
  • • Understanding of: NHS / Clinical governance / Resource constraints
Desirable criteria
  • • Evidence of managerial skills: Achievements / Course attended

Teaching Skills

Essential criteria
  • • Evidence of an interest and commitment to teaching
Desirable criteria
  • Recognised teaching qualification

Academic & Research

Essential criteria
  • • Evidence of participation in audit
Desirable criteria
  • Research experience
  • Publications
  • Prize and honours

Career Progression & Personal Attributes

Essential criteria
  • • Appropriate progression of career to date
  • • Evidence of:- Good communication skills both oral and written

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Dr Emily Charkin
Job title
Clinical Director for Paediatrics
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01903 205111
Additional information

Applicants are invited to visit the hospital or to phone for informal discussion by arrangement with: 

 

Dr Julia Fozard, Consultant Paediatrics, Worthing Hospital

Email: [email protected]

 

Dr Emily Charkin

Clinical Director for Paediatrics 

Email: [email protected]

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