Associate Specialist – Community Paediatrician

We are looking for a passionate Associate SpecialistCommunity Paediatrician to join our dynamic Child Health Department based in Wiltshire!

As an Associate specialist you will provide specialist assessment, diagnosis and ongoing care to children, young people and families within Wiltshire. You will have a deep understanding of Community Paediatrics and have relevant experience in the clinical management of children, including those with neurodevelopmental difficulties and safeguarding children.

The Child Health Department is a friendly team of consultants and Associate Specialists and GPwERs supported by our fantastic administration team. We are co-located with multi-disciplinary teams such as the Safeguarding and Looked After Children’s Nursing Teams, Community Children’s Nursing Team, School Nursing Team and Speech and Language Therapists.

At HCRG Care Group we understand the importance of maintaining a healthy work-life balance, as a result we will support you in your role as an Associate Specialist Paediatrician and provide flexibility in helping achieve harmony between personal and professional life.

We welcome Part-time applications too!
Package DescriptionAs Associate SpecialistCommunity Paediatrician, you’ll be feel reward and valued as part of our team in West Essex:

£ 52,530 - £82,400 (Medical and Dental: SAS Payscale)
NHS Pension!
Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling  
Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise 
An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year  
The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location 

Main ResponsibilitiesAs an Associate Specialist your days will be varied and may include:

Delivering developmental paediatric clinics, assessing children with a range of concerns that are affecting their health, development, or educational potential.
Contributing to multidisciplinary assessment and management
Liaising with members of the team for initial assessments and follow-ups.
Participating fully in safeguarding activities including the on-call rota
Providing information and participating in discussions with the multi-agency hub, strategy meetings, peer review and safeguarding supervision.
Performing medical assessments of children referred by the police or children’s social care.
Perform medical examinations in relation to assessments of Looked After Children.
Collating information from other clinicians and completing relevant documentation.
Administrative duties and reporting

For a full list of responsibilities please see attached job description.
The Ideal CandidateA Full UK driving license and access to a vehicle is required for this role.

Essential

UK recognised medical degree
Full GMC Registration
Work permit (if required)
MRCPCH or equivalent
Minimum 2 years’ experience in Community Paediatrics
Evidence of Level 3 training and experience in Safeguarding Children
Excellent clinical and inter-personal skills
Experience working with a Multidisciplinary Team

Desirable

Working towards a CCT in Community Child Health
Completion of formal training in Standardised Autism Assessments (such as ADOS, ADI-R, 3di)
Experience in multidisciplinary assessments.
Training in a standardised formal developmental assessment for children
Experience in the assessment, diagnosis, and management of ADHD
Experience of Child Protection assessments, Initial Health Assessments for Looked After Children, advice to the LA regarding Special Educational Needs

For a full list of requirements please see attached job description
About The CompanyWe change lives by transforming health and care. 

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. 

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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