Locum Community Consultant Paediatrician

Locum Community Consultant Paediatrician

The principal place of work for this post is Bronglais General Hospital, Aberystwyth. The post holder will generally be expected to undertake their programmed activities at the principal place of work or other locations agreed in the Job Plan. Exceptions will include travelling between work sites and attending official meetings away from the workplace. A planned and cost-effective approach is expected and is included in the DCC sessional allocation. The post holder may be required to work at any site within the Health Board, including new sites.

To provide, with consultant colleagues (as appropriate) a service in Community Paediatrics and support the development of sub-speciality interest to the hospitals and community so designated with responsibility for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of illness.

All clinical staff are accountable and responsible for their own clinical competence and should limit their actions to those for which they are deemed competent. Clinical staff are also required to comply with the requirements of their professional organisation regarding supervision.

As a senior employee of the Health Board, the post holder will work in close co-operation with, and support other clinical, medical professional and managerial colleagues in providing high-quality healthcare to the Health Board's patients.

Main duties of the job

1. To ensure the provision and delivery of a first-class clinical service
2. To provide effective leadership to all staff engaged in the specialty
3. To sustain and develop teaching and research wherever appropriate
4. To undertake all work in accordance with the Health Board's procedures and operating policies
5. To conduct clinical practice in accordance with contractual requirements and within the parameters of the Health Board's service plans
6. To maintain the confidence of business plans and development strategies formulated for the specialty or the Health Board
7. Core clinical expertise in Community Paediatrics
8. Experience and knowledge of running a subspecialty service
9. Leadership and team building skills as well as working as part of a multidisciplinary team
10. Supporting and training multidisciplinary teams
11. Delivering care in the community alongside primary health care and social care teams
12. Providing persuasive strategic advice to HB's and Social Services Departments
13. Addressing the Intermediate Care Agenda
14. Participating in CPD including Audit
15. You are expected to maintain your professional development for Revalidation
16. A Teaching and Training Role for medical undergraduates and postgraduates
17. Educational Supervisor role to Junior and Middle Grade Medical Staff
18. To undertake regular multidisciplinary clinical audit and provide evidence-based medicine

About us

Hywel Dda University Health Board plans and provides NHS healthcare services for people living in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire, and bordering counties.

We have over 13,000 staff and together we provide primary, community, in-hospital, mental health, and learning disabilities services.

We work in partnership with the three local authorities, as well as public, private and third sector colleagues, including our valued team of volunteers.

Our services are provided in:

• Four main hospitals: Bronglais Hospital in Aberystwyth, Glangwili Hospital in Carmarthen, Prince Philip Hospital in Llanelli, and Withybush Hospital in Haverfordwest
• Five community hospitals: Amman Valley and Llandovery hospitals in Carmarthenshire, Tregaron Hospital in Ceredigion, and Tenby and South Pembrokeshire hospitals in Pembrokeshire
• Two integrated care centres: Aberaeron and Cardigan in Ceredigion, and several other community settings
• 47 general practices (six of which are health board managed practices), dental practices (including four orthodontic), 97 community pharmacies, 43 general ophthalmic practices, and 8 ophthalmic domiciliary providers
• Numerous mental health and learning disabilities services

Job description
Job responsibilities

For full details of the role requirements please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for this vacancy.

Discussions around working pattern will take place during initial job planning, where preferences, requirements, and options can be discussed and explored in full.

Consultant Development and Mentoring Programme

We run a successful Consultant Development and Mentoring Programme within the Health Board, this programme is specifically designed to meet the needs of newly appointed consultants and offers a current and future focus by:

• Developing you as a senior leader, to enable you to effectively contribute to Hywel Dda and its future direction.
• Enhancing your capability as a senior leader and to support you to deliver organisational priorities
• Building capacity for the future, by aligning current priorities with planning for delivering future service.
• Delivering development aimed at consultants, enabling you to translate the NHS Medical Leadership Competency Framework (MCLF) behaviours into practice

The programme has been designed to support new Consultants to achieve the competencies required from the Medical Leadership Competency Framework (MCLF). This framework has been included within the NHS Leadership Framework (LF), and as such is consistent in its language and approach.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Full GMC Registration and Licence to Practice
• Valid Certified Advanced Life Support Skills
• Valid Level 3 Safeguarding Training
• Valid BLS Training
• MRCPCH or equivalent
• MBBS or equivalent

Desirable

• Appropriate Higher Degree e.g., MD, PhD, or MSc or equivalent
• On Specialist Register with GMC or CCT due within 6 months of interview date
• Or CESR or equivalent European Qualifications for Specialist Registration
• Or CCT or CESR-CP in General Paediatrics without Community Child Health (CCH) is acceptable if the applicant can show how they have acquired the Level 3 CCH competencies
• Community Paediatrics CESR

Clinical Experience
Essential

• Knowledge of UK hospital systems (or equivalent)
• Knowledge and participation in CPD
• Competence in Community Paediatrics
• Extensive and broad-based community paediatric experience to be able to work at consultant community paediatrics'

Desirable

• Experience of NHS
• Wider experience, research, and training in providing subspecialty service
• Evidence of above-average performance
• Additional clinical qualification(s)

Clinical Governance
Essential

• Evidence of participation in clinical audit and understanding role of audit in improving medical practice

Research
Essential

• Experience and knowledge of critical appraisal of evidence so as to improve clinical outcomes

Desirable

• Evidence of initiating, progressing, and concluding research projects with publication
• Research degree

Teaching
Essential

• Evidence of organising programmes and teaching medical students and junior doctors

Desirable

• Organisation of further teaching programmes in medical education
• Training the Trainers experience

Management
Essential

• Knowledge of the management and structure of the NHS

Desirable

• Evidence of management training

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