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Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing team of paediatric consultants as part of our integrated child health service, serving one of the largest populations of children in the Wessex Region. Both posts are new consultant posts, offering excellent clinical and development prospects. HHFT also hosts the local special school nursing team and the children’s community nursing team and  paediatric psychology service. 

Main duties of the job

• Contribute to the provision of community services by conducting clinics in the hospital/outreach settings
• Ensure continuity of care for patients by liaison with community-based colleagues within the Directorate, and other agencies, when appropriate
• Demonstrate a commitment to continued professional development in clinical practice and with regard to managerial responsibilities
• Engage in clinical governance activity through the clinical forums
• Support and participate in the medical child protection rota & CSA rota
• Engage in teaching and supervision of medical students and trainees

Working for our organisation

• The Community Paediatric department at Hampshire Hospitals has responsibility for a number of specific areas of community paediatric practice, to which all consultants are expected to contribute as needed.
• Developmental assessment – all paediatricians provide developmental, educational and behavioural assessments, generally in a clinic setting with the flexibility to visit pre-school settings and schools if required. Pre-school/ school observation of the child may be carried out as part of this assessment.
• Complex neuro-disability – paediatricians provide clinic-based follow up for children with cerebral palsy, neuro-muscular disease, and genetic syndromes, as well as multi-disability working via Team around the Child meetings and liaison with allied professionals.
• Preschool Autism assessments (including ADOS) are undertaken by all of the Community Paediatric Consultants. These are carried out in conjunction with the multi-disciplinary Early Years Autism Team at Basingstoke (including Clinical Psychology and Speech and Language Therapy colleagues). There are joint paediatric and psychology clinics for school aged children with additional medical or learning needs. (The school aged autism service is provided locally by another provider where there is no evidence of significant additional disability).