Consultant Community Paediatrician & Lead in Neurodisability

We offer an exciting opportunity for a Paediatric consultant to join a dedicated team of Community Paediatricians in an interesting area of greater London, providing high quality integrated service in partnership with SWL ICB and Achieving for Children (an award-winning social enterprise providing services for children in Kingston, Richmond and beyond).
The post holder will join a team of 2 Consultants and 1 Clinical Fellow and will be based in Ham clinic, Ashburnham Road, Ham (Richmond), TW10 7NF. The post holder will not have any clinical responsibility for service provision in Kingston but be expected to work closely with the Community Paediatric team in Kingston to provide an integrated service., The aim of the Child Development Service is to provide timely holistic child and family health assessments identifying health needs, providing care plans to meet the need, working with education and social care to produce where appropriate the Health and Education and care plan., Provide leadership in a Neuro-disability service sharing responsibility with the other consultants attached to the service.
Line Manager and supervision for one associate specialist within the team including appraisals, discipline, allocation of work.
To share specialist knowledge through training for the workforce in children's services.
To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others workload in the day to day allocation of work.
To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them, particularly administration of medicine and moving and handling.
To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.
To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust register.
Participate in, and contribute to the provision of high quality, resource effective, child centred clinical care and treatment, in accordance with the development and implementation of clinical governance, in a multidisciplinary environment.
Provide leadership and educational support and take responsibility for the comprehensive community training programme for career paediatric trainees.
Participate in Clinical Audit and governance programmes.
Liaise with other agencies and departments such as Social Services, Education, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services and Primary Care organisations.
Undertake outreach clinics and medicals at a special school for children with physical and emotional difficulties.
They will provide consultant pediatric input for neurodevelopmental clinics within a multidisciplinary team. The post holder will work with the pediatricians and therapists within the neurodisability/ neurodevelopmental service and the wider professional network to enhance the service and help implement the neurodisability Pathways' ASD, developmental delay, cerebral palsy and Downs syndrome.
Job Description has been approved by the RCPCH.
AAC date- 26th November 2024

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