This job description, together with the job plan, will be reviewed annually and agreed with the Clinical Director and Divisional Director, on behalf of the Chief Medical Officer, to ensure that it continually reflects the areas of work, clinical responsibility of the post and purchaser requirements. A suitably experienced post-holder will be expected to provide a clinical service in the relevant specialty to patients of the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust and to General Practitioners. The post-holder will be expected to provide a service to patients of the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, General Practitioners and to attend multi-disciplinary meetings. The successful candidate will be expected to work within multi-disciplinary teams in providing high quality clinical care. It is anticipated work will be undertaken on three sites and closer to the patients home. The Trust is seeking to extend services to GP surgeries/health centres etc and job plans may be revised in due course. The post-holder will provide support to the A&E department and acute medicine to ensure timely appropriate care and patient flow through the hospital. The post-holder will provide consultation and advisory service to clinical colleagues in the Trust and Primary Care. The appointee will have a continuing responsibility to their patients, and will be expected to undertake all administrative duties associated with this care.All consultants will participate in the on call rota, including the consultant of the week, when they will supervise and teach junior medical staff as required. The appointee will be expected to take an active part in undergraduate and postgraduate training. The department is committed to a regular intake of medical students from Birmingham University for their paediatric module.There is also a thriving regional GP vocational training course ensuring a high calibre of GP specialty trainees, and some will have experienced paediatrics in their foundation year training. The appointee will be expected to take part in clinical audit, guideline development, and clinical incident reporting and monitoring as well as general administrative responsibilities within the department.In addition, he/she will be expected to undergo regional training to ensure effective educational supervision for allocated trainees.