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Community Consultant Paediatrician ThurrockNHS

Grays, RM16 2PX Permanent £113,565 to £150,569
Posted 28 July 2026 Closing date 25 August 2026
Grays Rail Station (1.5 miles away) Grays Bus Station (1.5 miles away)

Job summary

JOB TITLE: Consultant Community Paediatrician 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 Post and Specialty:

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 Essexs Community Children and Young Peoples 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 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.

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 Essexs Community Children and Young Peoples 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). On-call responsibilitiommunity Paediatrician 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. 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.

Job description

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.

About us

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health and community services for over 4.9 million people living in the London Boroughs of Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Barking and Dagenham, Havering, and across Essex. We work to ensure our patients, their friends and family, feel confident that their health needs are well met. With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled health professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care.

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