Trust Doctor in Community Child Health (ST1-2 equivalent)

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team within the Community Child Health department. Our medical team consists of 8 Consultant Paediatricians and we also have Paediatric Speciality Trainees working within the team. We work alongside Nurse Specialists for Children in Care, Autism, Epilepsy and Bladder and Bowel Health. We also work very closely with the Children's Community Nursing team and allied health professionals including Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Speech and Language Therapists and Dieticians., This is a fixed term post with the following aims;

• Support the current clinical team in delivering regular clinics for Initial Health Assessments (IHA's) for Children in Care
• Provide regular clinics for the assessment and management of children referred to the bowel and bladder team, working alongside medical and nursing staff to help meet the increasing demand on the service
• To support the wider work of the community paediatric department, contributing to some developmental assessments, focusing on assessing children referred with different developmental conditions and those in particular who are not likely to require long-term follow-up
  
  This post is full-time. Candidates who wish to work part-time or job share are welcome to apply. Candidates should possess GMC registration with a license to practice at time of application and have previous paid experience of working within the NHS.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally. We're also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders. Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients 'contacts' each year, delivering high standards of healthcare. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people's race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.