Consultant Paediatrician with Interest in NeurologyNHS

Job summary

We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Consultant Paediatrician with a Special Interest in Neurology to join our General Paediatrics team within the Children's Directorate at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust.

This is a full-time, 10 programmed activity post working across Queen's Hospital and King George Hospital. The successful candidate will combine general paediatric and urgent care responsibilities with specialist paediatric neurology work, supporting children and young people with epilepsy and other neurological conditions.

The post offers an opportunity to join and further develop an established paediatric neurology service that works closely with Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Royal London Hospital. The local service includes first seizure, follow-up/headache and transitional epilepsy clinics, supported by neurophysiology, radiology and an epilepsy nurse specialist.

We are looking for an inclusive, compassionate and collaborative consultant with strong general paediatric experience, appropriate tertiary neurology experience and a commitment to high-quality clinical care, education, governance, audit, quality improvement and service development.

Main duties of the job

Consultant Paediatrician with Special Interest In Neurology

The successful candidate will provide consultant-led general paediatric and specialist neurology care across Queen's Hospital and King George Hospital. Key responsibilities will include:

• Participating in the general paediatric consultant rota, including inpatient ward cover, urgent and ambulatory care, outpatient activity and out-of-hours/on-call responsibilities.

-Providing consultant input to the Children's Emergency Department, Children and Young People's Assessment Unit, hot clinics and general paediatric wards.

• Supporting effective patient flow, timely review and discharge, and the prevention of avoidable hospital admissions.
• Assessing and managing children and young people with epilepsy, first seizures, headaches and other neurological conditions.

-Contributing to first seizure, follow-up/headache and transitional epilepsy clinics.

• Providing specialist advice for children admitted with epilepsy-related or other neurological presentations.
• Working closely with the epilepsy nurse specialist, neurophysiology, radiology, adult neurology and tertiary paediatric neurology services.
• Supporting children, young people and their families through clear clinical advice, education and ongoing care planning.

-Contributing to teaching, clinical governance, audit, quality improvement, appraisal and service development.

Job description

The successful candidate will join the General Paediatrics team and provide consultant-led care across Queens Hospital and King George Hospital. The post combines general paediatrics, urgent and ambulatory care with a special interest in paediatric neurology.

The postholder will contribute to inpatient, emergency, assessment, outpatient and on-call services, while supporting the assessment and management of children and young people with epilepsy and other neurological conditions. They will work collaboratively with the epilepsy nurse specialist, local multidisciplinary teams and tertiary neurology services.

The role also includes participation in teaching, clinical governance, audit, quality improvement and service development.

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the duties, responsibilities and requirements of the post.

About us

We're an organisation that is getting better and betterand ourimprovements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with.

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record(we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated goodby the Care Quality Commission.

We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen'sand get rid of corridor care.

We're proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We're also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance.

We run a Women's Health Hubin Ilford; an Ageing Well Centrein Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospitaland at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The majority of our 8,400 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexiblyand more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wageemployer.

Some of the positive changes we've made are captured in this film.