Job overview

Due to retirement, a fantastic opportunity has arisen within Bolton’s Community Paediatric department with 2 posts becoming available. You would be joining a well-regarded and supportive team of community paediatricians and advanced paediatric clinical practitioners. Bolton NHS Foundation Trust provides an integrated paediatric service across community and hospital services with excellent working relationships both within community services and with our acute hospital colleagues. Bolton NHS Foundation Trust is an equal opportunities employer and committed to family friendly policies. One post includes a leadership role for children’s epilepsy services and the other includes the assessment of children who are looked after or being adopted with the opportunity to take on statutory roles for this. Both posts will include the assessment of children with general Neurodisability including children with medical complexity and life limiting conditions. In the Bolton community paediatrics service, we currently assess primary school aged children with suspected Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). We are working with our commissioning colleagues at Greater Manchester Integrated Commissioning Body (ICB) to review the assessment processes for children with neurodiversity including ASD and ADHD to ensure equity of services for our children and families in line with new service specifications.

Main duties of the job

The main areas of clinical work for Post 1 are:

1. General community paediatrics including care of children with Neurodisability and neurodiversity in a locality-based clinic.
2. Responsibility for the health of children attending a local authority special school (secondary school), providing a clinic in the school
3. Named Doctor Looked After Children
4. Looked After Children Initial Health Assessments
5. Opportunity to take on further roles such as medical advisor for adoption and fostering
   
   

The main areas of clinical work for Post 2 are:

1. Epilepsy Service Lead: This includes the care of children with suspected or confirmed epilepsy. Children will be seen in a weekly new patient rapid response clinic and a weekly follow up epilepsy clinic in the community. There will be liaison and support for acute paediatrics and tertiary neurology as well as close working with the epilepsy specialist nurses.

2. Clinics also occur at special schools for those with diagnosed epilepsy or suspected epilepsy.
3. General community paediatrics including Neurodisability and neurodiversity.

Development of a special interest to compliment those in the department would also be encouraged. There may be the opportunity to take on further leadership roles on discussion with the department, depending on the applicants’ skills and experience. We anticipate with time there may be the opportunity, with negotiation, to increase the PA waiting of these posts if full time working was preferred.

Working for our organisation

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust was formed in 2008 and, in 2011, became an integrated provider with community health services joining the Trust.  Covering a catchment area that also incorporates parts of Bury, Wigan and Salford, the FT delivers hospital and community-based services from the Royal Bolton Hospital in Farnworth and from 20 health centres across Bolton, to a catchment population of 320,000 people.  The Royal Bolton Hospital is a major hub within Greater Manchester for women’s and children’s services and is the busiest single ambulance-receiving site in Greater Manchester.  As an NHS Foundation Trust, we’re ‘owned’ by our members and have a Council of Governors to represent the views of patients, public, staff and partners.