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Job overview

Applications are invited to apply for the above post in the Department of Community Paediatrics, Oxford Children’s Hospital, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford. 

An opportunity has risen for one less than full time locum Consultant post in our department.  This is a replacement post. The successful applicant will join a team of 10 Consultant Community Paediatricians. The post-holder’s clinical core commitments will include Community Paediatrics/neurodisability assessments  including secondary level assessment and management of children with developmental difficulties, special educational needs, and child protection medicals. The post holder will be responsible for providing Community Paediatric/Neurodisability care to children and families living in a defined area of Oxfordshire, and includes clinics within special schools. Clinical work will include a range of activities including clinical assessment, multidisciplinary assessments, supervising specialist registrar/speciality doctor and contributing to the departmental child protection rota.

Appropriate administrative support will be provided.

Our community paediatrics department has a dynamic and vibrant training programme with excellent links to the children’s specialist services. In addition the applicant will be involved in teaching both under- and post-graduates students and training community Paediatric higher specialist trainees.

Main duties of the job

The postholder’s duties will be based in the Community Paediatrics Department at the John Radcliffe Hospital but it is a condition of the appointment that the postholder will be willing to work in any of the Trust’s locations, throughout the county, and to attend meetings with Social Services Departments and other partner agencies.

Clinical

The post-holder’s commitments will include routine Community Paediatrics/Neurodisability assessments including secondary level review and management of children with developmental difficulties, special educational needs, overseeing and monitoring multidisciplinary assessment processes and child protection assessments. The post holder will provide community/neurodisability care for a defined geographical patch and for a special school. The department runs a Monday-Friday 9am-5pm on-call system for child protection. The child protection workload is therefore not limited to fixed sessions each week, as cover may be needed at other times.

Clinical work will include a range of activities including clinical assessment, multidisciplinary assessments, supervising specialist registrar/speciality doctor and contributing to the departmental child protection rota.

Working for our organisation

 1. The post is covered by the national Terms and Conditions of Service of Hospital Medical and Dental Staff (England and Wales) and the Conditions of Service determined by the General Whitley Council for the Health Services (Great Britain), as amended from time to time. As the Trust develops it will review these terms and may vary the national agreements to respond to local conditions and reflect Trust requirements following negotiation with the BMA Local Negotiating Committee.

2. The new consultant will be required to maintain his/her private residence in contact with the public telephone service, and to reside within ten miles by road from John Radcliffe Hospital unless specific written approval for a greater distance is given by the Medical Director of the Trust.

3. The successful candidate must hold full registration and licence to practice with the GMC.

4. The successful candidate must have CCT (or equivalent for non-UK applicants of equivalent status), or be accredited (or equivalent), and be on the GMC Specialist Register in the specialty appropriate for the consultant post at the time of taking up the consultant appointment.

5. The successful candidate is not required to subscribe to a recognised professional defence organisation to fulfil his/her contractual obligations to this Trust, but should ensure he/she has adequate defence cover as appropriate, for example, for private and Category 2 work, and for GMC disciplinary proceedings.