Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatrics
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 395-MED268-26
- Employer
- NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- NELFT & Great Ormond Street
- Town
- Barking, Essex
- Salary
- £109,725 - £145,478 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Paediatrician (with a special interest in Neurodisability)
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, and Essex. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for five consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.
Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video
Job overview
Consultant Paediatrician
(with a special interest in Neurodisability)
Joint Post – NELFT & Great Ormond Street Hospital
CONTRACT: 10 Programmed Activities (10 PAs) Flexible working available
BASE: 79 Axe Street, Barking, Essex IG11 7LZ
This post is joint Consultant Paediatrician position in the Barking and Dagenham Community Team, based at 79 Axe Street, Barking, IG11 7LZ and Neuro disability Team at Great Ormond Street Hospital.
This is a full-time post of 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) with 7.5 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 2.5 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs).
Main duties of the job
This is a newly created post, following investment by the place based ICB to support the increased demand on Community Paediatric services. A lot of transformation has taken place already and continues to take place in Barking and Dagenham community babies, children, and young people services. This post is currently vacant, and we wish to recruit substantively to this post as soon as possible.
This joint Consultant Paediatrician post for Children & Young People will enable the transfer of specialist skills in Neurodisability (movement disorder), streamline Neurodisability pathways across both organizations, support recruitment, and deliver training to existing and new staff members. This initiative aligns with the NHS Long Term Plan to bring healthcare closer to the communities we serve.
There is no on call requirement at night, although the post holder will participate in a daytime on-call rota 9am - 5pm to deliver child protection medical examinations.
Working for our organisation
The expectation of the post holder will be to support their team, department and organisation to follow the Trust’s Values in their day-to-day work.
● We are kind
● We are respectful
● We work with our communities
GOSH values are also expected:
· Always welcoming
· Always helpful
· Always expert
· Always one team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful candidate will work as part of a fully integrated multidisciplinary specialist team providing care to children and young people with health needs, across Barking & Dagenham. The successful applicant will also become part of a large (30+ community paediatricians), dynamic, community paediatric team, across the whole of North East London Foundation Trust.
The successful candidate will provide senior medical support to the team, and direct input on clinical cases. The consultant will be expected to provide guidance and supervision to the team, work directly with babies, children, and young people (and their families), and liaise as appropriate with other external health providers, and acute hospitals.
This post provides unique opportunity for the post holder to further develop links already established with the Tertiary and local acute trusts, in order to deliver specialist services within the community. There are existing close links with the acute paediatric department at King George Hospital (Ilford) and Queens Hospital (Romford) alongside Tertiary colleagues at the Royal London and Great Ormond Street Hospital.
The postholder will spend one day / week (2PAs) with the Movement Disorder Service at GOSH (part of the Wolfson Neurodisability Service) joining a morning clinic and then participating in educational activities/ administration in the afternoon. We hope that through this, local networks can be strengthened and delivery of care enhanced.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • MRCPCH by examination or equivalent.
- • Full GMC registration
- • On the GMC’s Specialist Register or within six months of CCT at time of scheduled interview.
- • CCT/CCST or equivalent accreditation in Community Paediatrics or equivalent training and experience
Clinical Experience and Training
Essential criteria
- • At least 2 years General Professional Training in paediatrics.
- • 3 years Higher Specialist Training, including 2 years in Community Paediatrics, or is able to demonstrate having achieved the competencies equivalent to the Highest Specialist Paediatric Training
- • Training in Neurodisability
- • Valid Level 3 Safeguarding Training.
- • Valid BLS Training
Specific Clinical Skills:
Essential criteria
- • Experience of neuro-disability and neurodevelopmental Paediatrics.
- • Experience in safeguarding/children in care where there are concerns of emotional, physical abuse, and neglect.
- • Approved training in Child Protection / Safeguarding at Level 3 of the Intercollegiate guidelines.
- • Level 3 competencies in the Intercollegiate guidelines Knowledge, skills, and competences for Children in care
- • Working in a multi-disciplinary team and with multi-agency partners
- • Working with families living with significant levels of deprivation and understanding of working in a multicultural community
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Manjari Tanwar
- Job title
- Deputy Chief Medical Officer
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Who to contact for informal inquiries:
Consultants in NELFT Barking & Dagenham team:
Dr Naila Nazi [email protected]
Dr Hla Thu [email protected]
Consultants in Movement Disorder service GOSH:
Dr Lucinda Carr [email protected]
Dr Belinda Crowe [email protected]
Integrated Care director: [email protected]
Associate Medical Director: [email protected]
Deputy Chief Medical officer for BCYP: [email protected]
Chief Medical Officer: Dr Helene Brown [email protected]
Medical Staffing: [email protected]
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