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Locum Community Consultant Paediatrician, Aberystwyth
Client:
Hywel Dda University Health Board
Location:
Job Category:
Consulting
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Reference:
90fc6916ba69
Job Views:
9
Posted:
23.01.2025
Expiry Date:
09.03.2025
Job Description:
Job summary
Locum Community Consultant Paediatrician
The principal place of work for this post is Bronglais General Hospital, post holder will generally be expected to undertake their programmed activities at the principal place of work or other locations agreed in the Job Plan. Exceptions will include travelling between work sites and attending official meetings away from the workplace. A planned and cost-effective approach is expected and is included in the DCC sessional allocation. The post holder may be required to work at any site within the Health Board, including new sites.
To provide, with consultant colleagues (as appropriate) a service in Community Paediatrics and support the development of sub-speciality interest to the hospitals and community so designated with responsibility for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of illness.
All clinical staff are accountable and responsible for their own clinical competence and should limit their actions to those for which they are deemed competent. Clinical staff are also required to comply with the requirements of their professional organisation regarding supervision.
As a senior employee of the Health Board the post holder will work in close co-operation with, and support other clinical, medical professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality healthcare to the Health Board's patients.
Main duties of the job
1. To ensure the provision and delivery of a first-class clinical service
2. To provide effective leadership to all staff engaged in the specialty
3. To sustain and develop teaching and research wherever appropriate
4. To undertake all work in accordance with the Health Board's procedures and operating policies
5. To conduct clinical practice in accordance with contractual requirements and within the parameters of the Health Board's service plans
6. To maintain the confidence of business plans and development strategies formulated for the specialty or the Health Board
7. Core clinical expertise in Community Paediatrics
8. Experience and knowledge of running a subspecialty service
9. Leadership and team building skills as well as working as part of a multidisciplinary team
10. Supporting and training multidisciplinary teams
11. Delivering care in the community alongside primary health care and social care teams
12. Providing persuasive strategic advice to HB's and Social Services Departments
13. Addressing the Intermediate Care Agenda
14. Participating in CPD including Audit
15. You are expected to maintain your professional development for Revalidation
16. A Teaching and Training Role for medical undergraduates and postgraduates
17. Educational Supervisor role to Junior and Middle Grade Medical Staff
18. To undertake regular multidisciplinary clinical audit and provide evidence-based medicine
About us
Hywel Dda University Health Board is the planner and provider of NHS healthcare services for people in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and its bordering counties. Our 11,000 members of staff provide primary, community, in-hospital, mental health and learning disabilities services for around 384,000 people across a quarter of the landmass of Wales. We do this in partnership with our three local authorities and public, private and third sector colleagues, including our volunteers.
Job responsibilities
For full details of the role requirements please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for this vacancy.
Discussions around working pattern will take place during initial job planning, where preferences, requirements and options can be discussed and explored in full.
Consultant Development and Mentoring Programme
We run a successful Consultant Development and Mentoring Programme within the Health Board, this programme is specifically designed to meet the needs of newly appointed consultants, and offers a current and future focus by:
1. developing you as a senior leader, to enable you to effectively contribute to Hywel Dda and its future direction.
2. Enhancing your capability as a senior leader and to support you to deliver organisational priorities
3. build capacity for the future, by aligning current priorities with planning for delivering future service.
4. delivering development aimed at consultants, enabling you to translate the NHS Medical Leadership Competency Framework (MCLF) behaviours into practice
The programme has been designed to support new Consultants to achieve the competencies required from the Medical Leadership Competency Framework (MCLF). This framework has been included within the NHS Leadership Framework (LF), and as such is consistent in its language and approach.
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Qualifications
Essential
1. Full GMC Registration and Licence to Practice
2. Valid Certified Advanced Life Support Skills
3. Valid Level 3 Safeguarding Training
4. Valid BLS Training
Desirable
1. Appropriate Higher Degree, MD, PhD, or MSc or equivalent
2. On Specialist Register with GMC or CCT due within 6 months of interview date
3. Or CESR or equivalent European Qualifications for Specialist Registration
4. Or CCT or CESR-CP in General Paediatrics without Community Child Health (CCH) is acceptable if the applicant can show how they have acquired the Level 3 CCH competencies
Clinical Experience
Essential
1. Knowledge of UK hospital systems (or equivalent)
2. Knowledge and participation in CPD
3. Competence in Community Paediatrics
Desirable
1. Experience of NHS
2. Wider experience, research, and training in providing subspecialty service
3. Evidence of above average performance
4. Additional clinical qualification(s)
Clinical Governance
Essential
1. Evidence of participation in clinical audit and understanding role of audit in improving medical practice
Research
Essential
1. Experience and knowledge of critical appraisal of evidence so as to improve clinical outcomes
Desirable
1. Evidence of initiating, progressing, and concluding research projects with publication
2. Research degree
Teaching
Essential
1. Evidence of organising programmes and teaching medical students and junior doctors
Desirable
1. Organisation of further teaching programmes in medical education
2. "Training the Trainers" experience
Management
Essential
1. Knowledge of the management and structure of the NHS
Desirable
1. Evidence of management training
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