Main area: General Paediatrics
Grade: NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
Contract: Locum: 12 months
Hours: Part time - 6 sessions per week (Role includes approximately 3.5 acute attending weeks and 3.5 complex care coordination weeks with the remaining weeks non-duty)
Job ref: 196-LCON1069
Employer: Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Evelina London Children's Hospital
Town: London
Salary: £105,504 - £139,882 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 19/11/2024 23:59
Job overview:
The Evelina London Children’s Hospital (ELCH) is seeking a part-time (6 PA) consultant maternity locum for 1 year from 6th January 2025. This is an opportunity to join our highly regarded general paediatric team so we can continue to ensure that ELCH is both compliant with all RCPCH and NHS London paediatric acute care standards whilst facilitating innovative models of care for our local children.
Main duties of the job:
This post will be expected to provide:
1. Consultant general paediatric care for secondary care admissions to ELCH via our paediatric emergency department, including acute assessment and management of medical high dependency care. This will entail acute consultant of the week duties as well as participating in an out of hours on call rota.
2. General Paediatric outpatient provision for GP referrals.
3. General Paediatric care for children with complex medical needs in ELCH as part of the General Paediatric COMPASS (COMplex PAaediatricS Service) team.
The appointed candidate would also be expected to contribute to other areas such as:
1. Liaison and discharge for complex tertiary paediatrics.
2. Intra hospital/community pathways.
3. High dependency care and patient safety.
4. Education and training.
5. Research.
6. Service transformation.
Working for our organisation:
The General Paediatric department provides a wide range of healthcare services to local children through inpatient and outpatient treatment. Our patients reflect the diverse community living locally, and we see and manage a range of common and rarer conditions. We also manage many cases from the South East England catchment area which have been retrieved to PICU and then come under the care of the general paediatricians. These children often have complex multi-system problems and provide an interesting caseload. We have an HDU (currently up to 7 beds) in which we manage acutely ill children, and often children requiring acute respiratory support including CPAP, BIPAP and stable long-term ventilation. The HDU is staffed by a specialist team of nurses, led by an experienced sister. We have 24/7 physiotherapy support and have close links with the PICU team.
In addition, within the Evelina we work in close liaison with paediatric respiratory, paediatric gastroenterology, paediatric infectious diseases, paediatric rheumatology, paediatrics diabetes & endocrinology, paediatric haematology/coagulopathies, paediatric emergency medicine, PICU, NICU, paediatric surgery, paediatric nephrology, paediatric cardiology, paediatric ENT, paediatric neurology, paediatric allergy, paediatric dermatology, paediatric ophthalmology and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities:
Job Summary:
* To provide general paediatric services to the Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
* To participate in clinical and other service activities with the object of ensuring a high standard of patient care.
* To take an active part in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training.
* To contribute to the management of the clinical service and service development.
* There is an opportunity for the appointed candidate to be part of a secondary level service for children and young people with epilepsy.
Provide High Quality Care to Patients:
* The post holder must be medically qualified and maintain GMC specialist registration and hold a licence to practice.
* To develop and maintain the competencies required to carry out the duties required of the post.
* To ensure prompt attendance at agreed direct clinical care Programmed Activities.
* To ensure patients are involved in decisions about their care and to respond to their views.
Research, Teaching and Training:
* Where possible to collaborate with academic and clinical colleagues to enhance the Trust’s translational research portfolio, at all times meeting the full requirements of Research Governance.
* To provide high quality teaching to medical undergraduates and members of other health care professions as required by the Clinical Director.
* To act as educational supervisor and appraiser as delegated by the Clinical Director to ensure external accreditation of training post.
Performance Management:
* To work with medical, nursing and managerial colleagues to ensure high performance in clinical efficiency, quality of outcomes, financial management, and operational efficiency.
Medical Staff Management:
* To work with colleagues to ensure junior doctors’ hours are compliant in line with EWTD and New Deal.
* To ensure that adequate systems and procedures are in place to control and monitor leave for junior medical staff and to ensure that there is appropriate cover within the clinical areas, including on-call commitments.
* To participate in the recruitment of junior medical staff as and when required.
* To participate in team objective setting as part of the annual job planning cycle.
* To be responsible for the annual appraisal of all doctors in training, Trust doctors, Clinical Fellows and non-consultant grades as delegated by the Clinical Director/General Manager.
Governance:
* To review clinical outcomes in designated area using external benchmarking data where appropriate, to identify and advise variances to the Clinical Director.
* Participate in clinical audit, incident reporting and analysis and to ensure resulting actions are implemented.
* To work closely with the Directorate, Patient and Public Involvement panels in relation to clinical and services developments as delegated by the Clinical Director.
* Participate in ensuring NICE requirements are reviewed and implemented and monitored in the speciality areas.
* To ensure clinical guidelines and protocols are adhered to by junior medical staff and updated on a regular basis.
* To keep fully informed about best practice in the speciality areas and ensure implications for practice changes are discussed with the Clinical Director.
* To role model good practice for infection control to all members of the multidisciplinary team.
Strategy and Business Planning:
* To participate in the business planning and objective setting process for the directorate and Trust where appropriate.
* To represent the Trust at appropriate clinical networks/other external clinical meetings, as delegated by the Clinical Director.
Leadership and Team Working:
* To demonstrate excellent leadership skills with regard to individual performance, clinical teams, the Trust and when participating in national or local initiatives.
* To work collaboratively with all members of the multi-disciplinary team and Kings Health Partners as required.
* To chair regular meetings for the specialties.
* To resolve conflict and difficult situations through negotiation and discussion, involving appropriate parties.
* Adhere to Trust/departmental guidelines on leave including reporting absence.
Job Plan:
Your job plan is anticipated to contain 6 Programmed Activities (PA’s) per week on average to be carried out on Guy’s & St Thomas’ sites and includes on-call commitments. This would be made up of 5 PA’s of Direct Clinical Care (DCC) and 1 PA for supporting professional activities (SPA). This is an outline programme and you will be expected to discuss and agree a detailed job plan including your personal and professional objectives with your Head’s of Service within 3 months of your start date.
The job plan will be negotiated between the consultant and his/her Head’s of Service at least annually. The initial job plan for this post is planned to be:
Acute attending week: Approximately 3.5 per year
On Call Rota: The appointee will be required to participate in a 1 in 12 on-call rota (Category A). The frequency of this rota commitment is considered to be low.
On call is from 2130-0800, available from home returning to work if needed. Emergency work arising from on-call duties will be taken into account in assessing the number of programmed activities for on-call in your agreed job plan.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or studies at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working: We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking into account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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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.
Contact: Marie White, Joint Head of Service - General Paediatrics, marie.white@gstt.nhs.uk, 020 7188 58194
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