Consultant in General PaediatricsNHS

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join a committed and supportive Children's Services team within the Women's and Children's Division. Our paediatric services provide care for children, young people and families across mid-Nottinghamshire, working with acute, neonatal, community and system partners to deliver safe, responsive and compassionate care.

We are seeking a consultant who shares our values and will bring clinical expertise, leadership and a commitment to improving outcomes for children and young people. The successful candidate will support high-quality general paediatric care, contribute to service development, strengthen patient flow and work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team.

The role also supports development of our paediatric respiratory pathwayand we welcome applications from candidates with a specialist interest or experience in paediatric respiratory medicine.

At Sherwood Forest Hospitals, we value kindness, respect and teamwork. We support consultants to develop their interests while contributing to leadership, teaching, governance and quality improvement activities.

This pack provides further details of the role, responsibilities and person specification. We hope it gives a clear sense of the opportunity and the contribution you could make. We welcome applications from candidates who are passionate about general paediatrics, committed to collaborative working and keen to help us continue improving care for our local communities.

Main duties of the job

o Provide a comprehensive general paediatric service across inpatient, ambulatory, outpatient and emergency care settings.

o Participate in the consultant on-call rota, including out-of-hours, weekend and acute paediatric/neonatal hot week cover.

o Support the development of paediatric respiratory services, including outpatient activity, pathway development and quality improvement.

o Work collaboratively with paediatric, neonatal, emergency department, community and multidisciplinary colleagues to deliver high-quality care.

o Provide clinical leadership, supporting patient flow, escalation, discharge planning and service improvement.

o Contribute to governance activities including audit, incident review, complaints management, risk management and quality improvement.

o Supervise and support junior medical staff and promote safe clinical practice.

o Participate in teaching, training, supervision and educational activities for undergraduate and postgraduate learners.

o Maintain appraisal, revalidation, continuing professional development and job planning requirements.

o Comply with Trust policies and GMC Good Medical Practice standards.

o Promote safeguarding, infection prevention, health and safety, equality, diversity and inclusion.

o Undertake additional duties appropriate to the role, including responsibilities linked to a specialist interest in paediatric respiratory care.

Job description

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of duties and responsibilities.

About us

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark, Sherwood and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for anywhere in the East Midlands for six years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.