Job overview

The successful candidate would be joining our paediatric cardiology team. The team delivers a comprehensive inpatient and outpatient’s service. Referrals are received from primary care, the ED department, internally from colleagues and from the inpatient ward. The PECs are supported by an experienced sonographer and a second sonographer is building their paediatric experience.

Main duties of the job

General Paediatric duties include 8 ward weeks/year with double Consultant of The Week cover for the Paediatric Wards. One Consultant is in charge of the Children’s Clinical Decision Area provides clinical support to the  Ambulatory Care Nurses looking after children at home. The other Consultant is in charge of the Children’s and Young People Unit (Ward 30) and conducts the daily hand overs and ward rounds.

The rota for the year is agreed bi-anuallyso that outpatient sessions can be cancelled as appropriate and leave factored in.

The Paediatric team provide resident evening cover of the wards until 22:00 throughout the week Monday to Friday and second consultant ward round support at the weekend 08:30-1430.

Duties will also include participation in the on-call rota (all existing full time consultant posts have 2.13 PA/week for on-call duties which includes an allocation for weekend ward rounds) and a contribution to delivering the safeguarding service for non-sexual abuse assessments.  (There are separate arrangements for assessing sexual abuse which are not part of this post).

Working for our organisation

Our People Charter outlines the behaviours we can expect from one another and what you can expect from Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust:

• We value people
• We are one team
• We care

We’re keen to meet people who share these values and are passionate about delivering the highest quality of care to our patients.