Paediatrics
Contract: Permanent: Substantive
Hours: Full time - 10 sessions per week (40 Hours per week)
Employer: King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
NHS
Salary: £105,504 - £139,882 per annum incl London Zone Allowance
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1.The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.
This is a replacement Consultant post, covering a combination of general paediatrics, paediatric endocrinology and diabetes. The remit of the postholder will be to work within the multi–disciplinary team to provide and develop paediatric services to the Trust’s paediatric patients. In addition, the individual will be required to play an active role in the general workload of the Care Group while having a significant commitment to teaching and training of junior staff.
The On-Call commitment is for a 1:4 rota, which is classed as Category B. This is a combination of diabetes and general paediatric on call. There is a commitment to undertake routine job planned work on Saturdays or Sundays as part of the total job planned PAs.
All employees are expected to undertake work on any of the Trust’s sites as required by the service. As a senior employee of the Trust, you will work in close co-operation with, and support other clinical, medical professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality healthcare to the Trust’s patients. The provision of a first-class clinical service
# Undertaking all work in accordance with the Trust’s procedures and operating policies
# Conducting clinical practice in accordance with contractual requirements and within the parameters of the Trust’s service plans
# King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts – and we are delighted you are considering a career with us.
Our teams provide services out of five hospitals across South East London and Kent, namely King’s College Hospital, the Princess Royal University Hospital, Orpington Hospital, Queen Mary’s Hospital Sidcup, and Beckenham Beacon.
We provide a full range of local and specialist services, and our teams are nationally and internationally recognized for our work in liver disease and transplantation, neurosciences, cardiac, haemato-oncology, fetal medicine, stroke, major trauma, and emergency medicine.
Together with other colleagues, to provide a high quality care service to patients. Shared responsibility with other colleagues for providing 24 hours, 7 days a week cover for the Unit on a rota basis. Responsible also for covering colleagues’ periods of annual leave and short-term sickness as detailed in your contract.
# Provide clinical supervision of junior medical/dental practitioners as a shared responsibility with other consultant colleagues.
# Responsible for outpatient clinic commitments in peripheral hospitals as agreed with the Care Group’s management team where part of the service structure.
# Take an active role in the formulation, implementation and monitoring of the Care Group’s Business Plan. This may include assisting with discussions regarding service plans and developments with internal and external agencies.
# Conduct all activities within the contracted level of service and operating plan for service(s).
# This will include fostering and developing projects focused towards these ends and ensuring that the momentum of post-qualification professional education and other appropriate training is maintained.
# Be aware of, and comply with, all Trust infection prevention and control policies, to include hand hygiene, personal hygiene, environmental and food hygiene.
# King’s is committed to providing Consultant led 7-day services and in the event of future developments the post holder would be expected to contribute equally with other Consultant colleagues.
You have a general duty of care for the health, safety and well-being of yourself, work colleagues, visitors and patients within the hospital in addition to any specific risk management or clinical governance responsibilities associated with this post.
# You are required to observe the rules, policies, procedures and standards of King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust together with all relevant statutory and professional obligations, including complying with statutory and Trust core training.
# You are required to be responsible, with management support, for your own personal development and to actively contribute to the development of colleagues.
# The postholder has an important responsibility for, and contribution to make to, infection control and must be familiar with the infection control and hygiene requirements of this role. These requirements are set out in the National Code of Practice on Infection Control and in local policies and procedures, which will be made clear during your induction and subsequent refresher training. net' email account, which will be the Trust's formal route for email communication. The Trust is committed to the Health and Wellbeing of all its staff and offer a range of guidance and services to support them, including:
Local occupational health support
Employee Assistance Programme which provides a wide range of support for work and personal issues, including relationship problems (personal and at work); legal matters; child care; Proactive local organisational systems to support staff following a serious incident
Availability of local initiatives and resources to promote workforce wellbeing
Coaching and mentoring, peer review groups and participation
~ Name on GMC Specialist registrar in general paediatrics Register on date of taking up appointment
Training and Experience
Wide experience in all aspects of paediatric endocrinology and diabetes mellitus
Wide experience in all aspects of general paediatrics, including safeguarding, culminating in award of Certificate of Completion of Training by GMC, or award of Certificate of Eligibility for Specialty Registration (CESR) by GMC.
Higher degree or qualification in medical education
Experience in day-to-day organisation of general paediatric and tertiary endocrinology services in a busy Teaching Hospital
Familiarity with information technology and general computer skills
Familiar with current structure of UK National Health Service and conversant with recent initiatives and changes
Audit and Quality Improvement
Thorough understanding of principles of medical audit. Must have undertaken and completed audit projects.
Experience of clinical research.
Relevant research experience in one or more aspects of paediatric endocrinology
Experience of undergraduate and post-graduate teaching and exam preparation.
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Please review the documentation on our recruitment microsite, particularly the Trust’s criminal records checking policy
All staff have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and for ensuring they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Annual Reports and Other Corporate Publications
King's College Hospital is part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC), a pioneering collaboration between King's College London, and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts.
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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