General Paediatrics consultant interest in Haematology

The successful candidate will be responsible for delivering one specialist hematology clinic per week, to include new patient referrals from GPs or consultant colleagues and follow-up patients. General Paediatric duties include 8 ward weeks/year with double Consultant of The Week cover for the Paediatric Wards. There is double Consultant of The Week cover for the Paediatric Wards on week days. One Consultant is in charge of the Childrens Clinical Decision Area (including 9 x 24h short stay beds) and provides clinical support to the Step-Up Ambulatory Care Nurses looking after children at home. The other Consultant is in charge of the Childrens and Young People Unit (Ward 30) and conducts the daily hand overs and ward rounds. All children seen in CCDA and admitted to the Ward during the week will be officially under the care of the Ward Consultant unless already under the care of another Consultant. The consultants have agreed that they will not take their annual leave during their weeks on the wards. The rota for the year is agreed quarterly so that outpatient sessions can be cancelled as appropriate. 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 safeguarding sexual abuse which are not part of this post). The post holder will support the current named doctor, nurse and midwife in co-ordinating statutory safe guarding duties for the Trust, providing both internal and external assurance. This will include supporting and advising colleagues in the clinical assessment and care of children and young people. This will include but not limited to : Training and supervision Development of polices and guidelines Represent the Trust in multi-agency forums/arena Audit and Quality assurance Contribute to the planning and strategic organisation of safeguarding/child protection services.