Specialty Doctor in Community Paediatrics
NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor
Main area: Community Paediatrics
Grade: NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 10 sessions per week (Monday to Friday)
Job ref: 153-M3598
Department name: 4. UHD - Medical Recruitment Site Poole Hospital
Town: Poole
Salary: £59,175 - £95,400 pa
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 13/02/2025 08:00
As University Hospitals Dorset, we are a three-site acute trust with ‘university hospital’ status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.
We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.
In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with over seven miles of sandy beaches, you’ll find inspirational opportunities to achieve your perfect work/life balance. With the New Forest and the Purbecks on our doorstep, we’re also less than three hours from London by road or train. The thriving towns of Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch give way to idyllic villages and unspoilt landscapes just minutes from our hospitals.
We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming, and productive place to work.
Job overview
This is a replacement Speciality Doctor post in Community Paediatrics, working within the Community/Neurodisability team at the Child Development Centre at Poole Hospital. The successful applicant will join a team of 7 Consultants, 2 Specialists, and 4 Speciality Doctors, with close links with the acute paediatricians working in the hospital. There is a planned contract of 10 programmed activities in Community Paediatrics, but applicants wishing to work part-time will be considered.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be expected to:
* Support a community base, delivering predominantly pre-school-age developmental assessments
* Work in the Looked After Children service, performing Initial Health Assessments
* Hold responsibility for a local school for children with moderate learning disabilities
* Opportunity to support a local enuresis service
* Additional interests could be catered for, including medical education, palliative care or Safeguarding as examples
There is no on-call element to this post.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Full GMC Registration
* MRCPCH
* Completed at least 4 years full-time postgraduate training, of which at least 2 years must be in paediatrics
* MSc or Diploma in Child Health
Experience
* All round general experience in paediatrics
* Experience in running own independent out-patient clinics
* Experience in Community Paediatrics, including preschool multidisciplinary assessments
* Experience of a special school
* Experience in enuresis/tics
Knowledge
* Basic management skills
* Good understanding of the structure and processes within the NHS including clinical governance
* An understanding of research methodology and critical appraisal
* Involvement in clinical governance
* Good organisational and time-management skills
* Excellent IT skills
* Evidence of publications / presentations
Please note: Staff recruited are expected to be available to work flexibly across all our Trust locations to meet service demands.
This advert may be closed early if sufficient applications are received.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself and our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst this vaccination is not a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Name: Delyth Howard
Job title: Consultant Paediatrician
Email address: delyth.howard@uhd.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 0300 019 3034
Dr Mark Tighe - Clinical Director for Paediatrics
Email: mark.tighe@uhd.nhs.uk
Telephone: 0300 019 8666
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