Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatrics
- Grade
- Specialty Doctor
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Job ref
- 779-2744-MS-A
- Employer
- Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ham clinic
- Town
- Ham
- Salary
- £55,825 - £90,000 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialty Doctor in Community Child Health
Specialty Doctor
Home, community, hospital
Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.
Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.
We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.
Our Trust values
These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.
- Compassionate: We provide care with kindness, understanding, and empathy for all.
- Inclusive: We embrace diversity and respect the unique contributions of every individual.
- Collaborative: We foster teamwork across all levels, working together and with our partners to deliver the best outcomes.
- Inspiring: We are committed to continuous improvement and excellence in patient care, staff development, and innovation.
Job overview
The broad responsibilities of the post are:
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- Second-tier community child health assessments
- Neurodevelopmental and Behavioural Paediatrics
- Child Protection assessments
- Educational assessment
- Assessment of Looked after Children
Main duties of the job
The Department works closely with its associated general paediatric department at Kingston Hospital. It aims to provide a timely holistic child and family health. Assessment identifying health needs, providing care plans to meet the need, working with education and social care to produce where appropriate the Health, Education and Care Plan.
Working for our organisation
Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust (HRCH) provide a wide range of healthcare services for the population of London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.The Clinical Services Directorates have a wide range of responsibilities to manage, including coordinating and delivering community primary care services on behalf of the Trust. A wide range of these healthcare services are delivered by staff in the community, who include medical staff, paediatric therapists, therapy assistants,
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. The Child Development Service is to provide a coordinated multi-disciplinary team approach to assessment and management of children with disabilities.
2. Specialist Children’s Services include Paediatricians, Specialist Nurses and Therapists. Within the Specialist Children’s Services is the child development team, neonatal hearing screening, second tier paediatric audiological, child protection, LAC services and a child health information department.
3. There are close links with CAMHS, CAMHS -LD, Hounslow education, including Portage and TSS and Hounslow social services (social work team for children with disabilities).
4. A core Child Development Team consists of a pediatrician, physiotherapist, OT and SLT. Multi-disciplinary assessments including autism assessments take place every week.
Please see attached job description for more information relating to this role
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Qualified medical practitioner
- Full GMC registration
Desirable criteria
- Post graduate qualification: eg MRCPH, Msc, DCH, DCCH, MBA or other relevant diplomas
Experience
Essential criteria
- Have completed at least four years (full time equivalent) post full registration as a medical practitioner,
Desirable criteria
- Experience in assessing child development
- Experience in child protection
- Experience in other areas relevant to child health eg general practice, child health, sexual health, obstetrics, public health
- Specialist experience in one or more areas of practice eg ADHD, ASD, audiology
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate an understanding of how working in community settings differs from hospital
- Ability to assess a normal child and to recognise and appropriately manage abnormality
- Willingness to work without immediate supervision but with an awareness of one's individuals limitations
- Good written and oral communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to manage time effectively
- Capacity to take in others' perspectives and treat others with understanding
- Contribution to team work, experience of communicating with other disciplines
- Capacity to manage difficult situations under pressure. Demonstrates initiative & resilience to cope with changing circumstances. Ability to work independently
- Capacity to achieve a balance between urgent and important demands
- Have demonstrable skills in written and spoken English adequate to enable effective communication about medical topics with patients and colleagues
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrated ability to work unsupervised and make decisions
- Demonstrated ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team
- Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively eg report writing, thesis
Teaching, Audit & Research
Essential criteria
- Participation in research or clinical audit
- Willingness to take part in teaching
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
- Conducting audit and research
- Demonstrated ability or experience in teaching
- Formal training in research or teaching methods
Management
Essential criteria
- Understanding of management issues including medical discipline, clinical governance, service planning
- Willingness to participate in service developments
Desirable criteria
- Willingness to manage eg project work mentoring junior staff
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr. Sudipta Sen
- Job title
- Consultant Paediatrician
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 891 8188
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