Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to join Midlands Partnership University Foundation Trust as a valued Speciality Doctor, providing medical input into the Community Paediatric multidisciplinary team in the Children and Families Care Group.

The post is based across clinics including The Bridge, Stafford, Cannock and Lichfield according to service need.

You will support a team based multi-disciplinary community paediatric service for children and young people who are vulnerable due to disability, developmental delay, neuro-developmental problems, disease and/or disadvantage and to work at various sites within the West team.

You will be required to assess, diagnose, review progress and provide on-going care for children on the caseload. This will include working in clinics and school settings as appropriate.

This includes general community paediatric assessment for children who are thought to have two or more neuro-developmental problems, and investigations and diagnosis and management of children referred into the service. This includes identification of child’s strengths and difficulties and coordination of care packages to meet needs, including concurrent conditions and supporting Early Help and Team Around the Child meetings as appropriate.

You will join an experienced, creative, highly skilled and professional multidisciplinary team working to maintain a seamless model of service delivery for children and young people in the south of Staffordshire.

Main duties of the job

• Manage administrative aspects of the post effectively.
• To participate in Clinical Governance. This includes dealing with complaints, identifying and reporting serious untoward incidents, clinical audit and fostering effective clinical practice
• To support and provide training/supervision for non-medical staff and students.
• To work alongside the medical adviser for adoption to provide medical advice for children who are looked after and undergoing process of adoption, adult health medical advice for prospective adopters and attendance in regional adoption panels.
• To keep patients fully informed of their prescribed medication, its purposes, positive effects and any likely ill effects.
• To reduce vulnerability and empower patients towards making positive choices.
• To initiate and maintain regular assessment and management of risk.

There are opportunities for you to expand your research portfolio and personal interests, and to take part in ongoing service and clinical audits with the support of a central clinical audit department.  The Trust also has links to Keele University Medical School.

Working for our organisation

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support  you by

Supporting your career development and progression.
Excellent NHS Pension scheme
Generous maternity, paternity, adoption leave
Options for flexible working
Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients.
Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and 
maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
Salary sacrifice car – fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced 
by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid 
at business rates
Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k 
 Free car parking at all trust sites
Free flu vaccination every year

And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.