Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatrics
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor
- Contract
- Fixed term: 1 year (With the chance of extension/permanant)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
- Job ref
- 277-6925610-A1-LK
- Employer
- Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Acorns Unit, Queen Mary's Hospital
- Town
- Sidcup
- Salary
- £59,175 - £95,400 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialty Doctor in Community Paediatrics
NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor
Job overview
Main duties of the job
1. The post holder may be required to work at any of the Trust’s sites in line with service needs including the provision of cover where necessary.
2. The post holder must at all times carry out her/his responsibilities with due regard to the Trust’s Equal Opportunity Policy.
3. The post holder will be expected to be capable of assessing children referred to our service and seen in secondary clinics with appropriate training and support.
4. Job Limitations: at no time should the post holder work at a level outside their level of competence. Any concerns should be discussed immediately with the line manager. All staff have a responsibility to inform those supervising their duties, it they are not competent to perform a duty.
5. This is an outline job description and should not be regarded as an inflexible specification. Priorities may change in line with service needs and new duties introduced after consultation with the post holder.
Working for our organisation
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
- We’re Kind
- We’re Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. To undertake developmental assessments of preschool children as required and prepare reports.
2. To carry out other medical and neurodevelopmental assessments on primary and secondary school children where appropriate, including initial medicals for ADHD and ASD prior to referring to the ADHD and ASD Teams. To acquire the skills and knowledge necessary to conduct assessments for ASD and ADHD, as well as to manage ADHD and melatonin medication effectively.
3. To contribute to the reviews of children with complex needs, including transition arrangements, and to assist in the early identification of needs with liaison with appropriate agencies.
4. To participate in multidisciplinary and multiagency discussion and planning meetings. To participate in the multidisciplinary team and carry out multidisciplinary assessments as indicated.
Person specification
GMC Registration
Essential criteria
- Must have GMC registration
Minimum 2 years experience
Essential criteria
- Must have a minimum of 2 years community Paeds experience
Ability to assess a normal child and to recognise and appropriately manage abnormality.
Essential criteria
- Ability to assess a normal child and to recognise and appropriately manage abnormality.
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Edward Harvey
- Job title
- Operational Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07768338250
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