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Job summary

Main area
Paediatrics
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 10 sessions per week
Job ref
395-MED132-26
Employer
NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Gifford House, Thurrock Community Hospital
Town
Grays, Essex
Salary
£109,725 - £145,478 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
25/03/2026 23:59

Employer heading

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust logo

COMMUNITY CONSULTANT PAEDIATRICIAN (THURROCK)

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

 JOB TITLE:      Consultant Community Pediatrician

                                Thurrock - South West Essex

CONTRACT:   10 Programmed Activities (10 PAs)

                                Substantive

 Flexible working available – including job share, part-   time, remote sessions considered

 

BASE:                Thurrock Community Hospital, Long Lane, Grays, RM16 2PX

Main duties of the job

This is a newly created post following additional funding added to a previous part-time post. A lot of transformation has taken place already and continues to take place in Essex’s Community Children and Young People’s Services. This post is currently vacant, and we wish to recruit to this post as soon as possible. 

This is a new, substantive, full-time post - 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) post with 7.5 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 2.5 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs).

It is a substantive post and we would consider requests for flexible working, job share or fixed term if preferred.

 The expectation of the post holder is to support their teams, the Directorate and the organisation to follow the Trust’s Values in their day-to-day work.

      We are kind

      We are respectful

      We work with our communities

Working for our organisation

This post is for a Consultant Paediatrician position in the South West Essex Community Paediatric team. This specific post is for the Thurrock part of the service and is based at the Integrated Child Health Service at Gifford House, Thurrock Community Hospital, Long Lane, Grays, RM16 2PX, where the post holder will work in an integrated multidisciplinary team.

This is a newly created post following additional funding added to a previous part-time post. A lot of transformation has taken place already and continues to take place in Essex’s Community Children and Young People’s Services. This post is currently vacant, and we wish to recruit to this post as soon as possible.

 This is a new, substantive, full-time post - 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) post with 7.5 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 2.5 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs).

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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.

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 Thurrock. 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, and work closely with 0.8wte Consultant Paediatrician (Dr Kaushik Banerjee), and 1.8wte Specialist Grade Doctor (out to recruitment) in the Team. 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.

 

There will also be the opportunity for the post holder to further develop links already established with the local acute trusts, in order to continually improve our services. There are close links with the acute paediatric department at Basildon University Hospital.

We have Core Paediatric Trainees from London and Eastern Deanery, with a joint training programme with BHRUT, Basildon, and Whipps Cross Hospital. Medical Students are on placement from Cambridge and Barts and the London Medical Schools including medical students on the innovative “Medicine in Society” module from QMUL.

Person specification

GMC

Essential criteria
  • • Full GMC registration with a licence to practice

CCT

Essential criteria
  • • CCT or equivalent

Specialist Register

Essential criteria
  • • Inclusion in, or eligibility for inclusion in the Specialist Register or within 6 months of obtaining CCST

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Employers for CarersApprenticeships logoAge positiveDisability confident employerHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - GoldEmployers Network for Equality & InclusionTop 10 Employer 2023

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Viviana Porcari
Job title
Associate Medical Director
Email address
[email protected]
Additional information

Who to contact for informal inquiries:

Medical Director: Dr Manjari Tanwar                                 [email protected]

Associate Medical Director: Dr Viviana Porcari               [email protected]

Medical Staffing:                                                                   [email protected]

 

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