Consultant Community Paediatrician x3 Posts

Three substantive Consultant Community Paediatrician posts to be part of a team of 21 Consultant Paediatricians leading the Community Child Health Services in Birmingham. Offered as 10 PA posts. Part time applications will be considered., The Community Paediatric Service is organised into five teams each serving a geographical sector of Birmingham and linking with one of the five child development centres. These posts will be part of the team providing secondary clinical community paediatric care in the North, East and South sector.

Children and Families Division The Children and Families Division brings together all Universal and Specialist community services for children in Birmingham and offers a co-ordinated approach for child health care. We work closely with all the paediatric services in Birmingham including Birmingham Children's Hospital, City Hospital (Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust), Heartlands Hospital and Good Hope Hospital (both under University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust). We have good links with the Clinical Commissioning Groups, the Local Authority and voluntary agencies providing care for children and are represented on the Health and Wellbeing Board. Our aim is to provide excellent services for all children in Birmingham, focussed on the most vulnerable. The range of services includes:

• Universal Services for Children, including Health Visiting and Mainstream School Nursing.
• Five Child Development Centres.
• Community Paediatric Physiotherapy, Speech and Language Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Paediatric Eye Service and Dietetics.
• Community Children's Nursing (including palliative care, rapid response and complex care nursing), the School Health Service for Special Schools, Safeguarding Children Team and the Edgewood Road Short Breaks facility.
• Community Paediatrics.