Consultant Paediatrician - Interest in Respiratory
Walsall Healthcare Trust has an exciting opportunity to appoint a Consultant Paediatrician with experience and expertise in paediatric respiratory. The appointee will work within the Department of Paediatrics and Neonates at Manor Hospital, Walsall in a substantive capacity. This is to augment the current team in order to manage the increasing general paediatric and paediatric respiratory work in the department.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will join an established team of committed paediatricians who work together to plan and deliver an excellent quality of care to the children and young people of Walsall borough.
The Department of Paediatrics works on a Paediatric Consultant of the Week (PCOW) system that provides dedicated consultant cover for the paediatric in-patient and the paediatric day case ward.
Since 2019 we had a dedicated day time consultant cover for PAU (PCOW2) during winter months and since April 2023 this has been extended to throughout the year following the relocation of the Paediatric Assessment Unit to the front door Urgent and Emergency Care Centre (UECC). The out of hours tier 3 level on-call cover is shared among the consultants participating in the general paediatrics on-call rota.
Job responsibilities
As a senior medical member of NHS Walsall, it is expected that the post holder will work in close co-operation with and support other clinical, medical professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality and safe health care to patients.
The appointee will be expected to:
* Work with other consultants to provide integrated paediatric services with responsibility for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness. This will include the planning and development, management and delivery of these services.
* Provide effective leadership to all staff engaged in specialty and related services.
* Undertake all work in accordance with Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust policies and procedures, and conduct clinical practice in accordance with contractual requirements and within the parameters of Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust service plans.
* Have excellent communication and liaison skills and the ability to work within a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency team.
* Participate in the paediatric consultant of the week (PCOW) and paediatric out of hours on-call system as per rota currently operational in the department. Safeguarding cover out of hours is also provided by the on-call consultant.
* Support the general paediatric and paediatric respiratory service; additional interests are always welcome, e.g., palliative care, paediatric ambulatory medicine, HDU, medical education, safeguarding etc.
* Provide prospective cover for colleagues for purposes of annual, study and professional leave, arranged by exchange of acute commitments including on-call duties.
* Provide supervision and training of junior medical staff including undertaking supervised learning events.
* Participate in the established teaching programme for junior doctors and medical students, and act as educational and clinical supervisors for junior doctors following formal accreditation.
* Ensure that staff in their work area receive appropriate mandatory training commensurate with the range and level of work to be undertaken.
* Take responsibility for ensuring evidence-based practice and improving quality of service by participating in departmental clinical governance activities, audit programme and QI projects.
* Engage actively in the Trust appraisal and revalidation process.
* Participate in ongoing research activity as deemed appropriate.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* MRCPCH or equivalent
* Valid registration and license to practice with General Medical Council (GMC)
* Evidence of being on GMC Specialist Register for Paediatrics or be within six months of being admitted to the Register
* APLS/EPALS or equivalent provider/instructor status
* Educational/Clinical supervision training
Clinical Experience
* Broad range of paediatric knowledge and experience at middle grade level or higher level
* One year experience working in paediatric respiratory medicine at middle grade/consultant level
* Experience of leading children's safeguarding process
* Willingness to develop interest and expertise in paediatric respiratory medicine
Personal attributes
* An understanding of the current NHS environment, particularly in relation to reforms, initiatives and issues
* Excellent team working and leadership skills
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
£105,504 to £139,882 a year, dependent on experience.
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