Walsall Healthcare Trust has an exciting opportunity to appoint a Consultant Paediatrician with experience and expertise in paediatric neurology and epilepsy. 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, paediatric neurology and epilepsy work in the department.
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.
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trustis an integrated Trust and the only provider of NHS acute care in Walsall, serving a population of 286,700, providing inpatient and outpatient services at the Manor Hospital as well as a wide range of services in the community. Walsall Manor Hospital houses the full range of district general hospital services under one roof. The £170 million development of our Pleck Road site was completed in 2010 and the continued upgrading of existing areas ensures the Trust now has a state-of-the-art Critical Care Unit, Neonatal Unit, Obstetric Theatre, and Integrated Assessment Unit facilities, and the new Urgent and Emergency Care Centre opened in early 2023.
We would particularly welcome applications from people from a Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic background and from people with a disability; these groups are currently under-represented at senior level, we value diversity within our Trust and are working to achieve equality in our recruitment.
We support a range of flexible working for all employees and prospective applicants. The Trust works collaboratively with Black Country and West Birmingham Integrated Care Systems. Our objective is to support ongoing flexible working across the partnership and transforming our workforce so that it is flexible and consistent as we redesign services for our integrated future.
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.
• Supporting the general paediatric and paediatric neurology and epilepsy service will be integral part of this post though 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. This is 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 on-going research activity as deemed appropriate.
This advert closes on Monday 3 Feb 2025