This is an exciting opportunity to work with a team of dynamic and experienced community paediatricians in an active and progressive department at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust. We work closely with our acute paediatric colleagues and are an active training unit. The community paediatric team hold clinics across East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust and in specialist school provisions.
The post holder will be expected to provide consultant input into the child development and Neurodisability service and there will be opportunity to develop a special interest (e.g. transition, epilepsy, Children Looked After) depending on experience and interest.
There is no out of hours commitment with this post although the post holder will participate in a weekday daytime rota for child protection. This does not include sexual abuse medicals which are seen elsewhere.
Responsibilities:
Maintenance of high-quality patient centred care Teaching and training within the multidisciplinary service Active involvement in multidisciplinary team meetings and directorate clinical governance activity Active participation in continuing medical education Participate in the diagnosis and management of CYP with a range of neurodevelopmental difficulties, long term complex conditions and Neurodisability Share multidisciplinary team assessments and meetings as required Participate in multidisciplinary assessment clinics for children with suspected autism, for pre-school and school age children Participate in the diagnosis and management of neurodevelopmental conditions including ASD and ADHD Provide a safeguarding children service in conjunction with other colleagues Participate in providing medical input for SEN, special schools and adoption and fostering as required Provide clinical supervision of Paediatric doctors in training
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
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The post holder will be expected to provide consultant input into the child development and Neurodisability service and there will be opportunity to develop a special interest (e.g. transition, epilepsy, Children Looked After) depending on experience and interest.
There is no out of hours commitment with this post although the post holder will participate in a weekday daytime rota for child protection. This does not include sexual abuse medicals which are seen elsewhere.
Responsibilities:
Maintenance of high-quality patient centred care Teaching and training within the multidisciplinary service Active involvement in multidisciplinary team meetings and directorate clinical governance activity Active participation in continuing medical education Participate in the diagnosis and management of CYP with a range of neurodevelopmental difficulties, long term complex conditions and Neurodisability Share multidisciplinary team assessments and meetings as required Participate in multidisciplinary assessment clinics for children with suspected autism, for pre-school and school age children Participate in the diagnosis and management of neurodevelopmental conditions including ASD and ADHD Provide a safeguarding children service in conjunction with other colleagues Participate in providing medical input for SEN, special schools and adoption and fostering as required Provide clinical supervision of Paediatric doctors in training
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
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