Senior Clinical Fellow in Community Paediatrics

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Job overview

Applications for 1.0 wte Senior Clinical fellow Community Child Health

This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing team as part of our integrated child health service, serving one of the largest populations of children in the Wessex Region. HHFT also hosts the local special school nursing team and the children's community nursing team and paediatric psychology service.

Main duties of the job

Contribute to the provision of community services by conducting clinics in the hospital/outreach settings:

• Ensure continuity of care for patients by liaison with community-paediatric consultants
• Demonstrate a commitment to continued professional development in community child health
• Engage in clinical governance activity through the clinical fora

Working for our organisation

The Community Paediatric department at Hampshire Hospitals has responsibility for a number of specific areas of community paediatric practice.

• Developmental assessment - all paediatricians provide developmental, educational and behavioural assessments, generally in a clinic setting with the flexibility to visit pre-school settings and schools if required. Pre-school/ school observation of the child may be carried out as part of this assessment.
• Complex neuro-disability - paediatricians provide clinic-based follow up for children with cerebral palsy, neuro-muscular disease, and genetic syndromes, as well as multi-disability working via Team around the Child meetings and liaison with allied professionals.
• Preschool Autism assessments (including ADOS) are undertaken by all of the Community Paediatric Consultants

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This post would provide excellent experience in community child health and would include;

New patient clinics - with consultant supervision

Special school clinics

Down syndrome clinics (BNH supervision PM)

Additional learning/support opportunities;

Kennet CSA clinic - BNnH

Safeguarding

Adoption & Fostering

Joint Paediatric Neurodisability psychology

Joint Neurology Outreach clinics

Pilot Feeding clinics - complex and dysphagia

Psychology and psychiatry liaison work

Genetics clinics

Naomi house and palliative care

For further information contact Dr Martha Wyles, Clinical Director of Child Health/Consultant Paediatrician martha.wyles@hhft.nhs.uk

Person specification

Training & Qualifications

Essential criteria

• MRCPCH
• Full registration with GMC
• APLS or equivalent
• NLS or equivalent

Desirable criteria

• DCH
• Safeguarding certificate

Experience & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• At least 2 years' experience in Paediatrics
• Previous experience in community child health

Desirable criteria

• Post graduate qualifications
• At least 6 months experience of working in the NHS
• Autism relevant training e.g ADOS

Skills & Ability

Essential criteria

• Ability to communicate effectively with children, parents and staff
• Ability to work with and lead a team
• Understanding the importance of multi-disciplinary working in delivery of patients care

Desirable criteria

• Demonstrate participation in audit, QI and research
• Demonstrate ability to manage change and an understanding of the principles of service improvement
• Teaching experience and/or qualification

Our commitment to you:

We are committed to equality and diversity in both the provision of our services and how we recruit and manage our staff. Applications are encouraged from everyone with the necessary attributes for the job, irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity.

Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.

The paperwork:

• HHFT is committed to putting the safety and care of our patients first - as well as helping us to protect you and your colleagues. Therefore, we would recommend that you are vaccinated against COVID-19 and that you understand that we are treating COVID-19 positive patients within our services.
• Shortlisted candidates will be contacted at least 5 working days before the scheduled interview date. Applications will be submitted directly into our preferred third party recruitment system (Trac). All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs via email - please ensure to check your junk/spam folders.
• All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering their first six months in post.
• In compliance with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, all applicants must be able to communicate fluently in English to an appropriate standard which will be assessed as part of the selection process.
• This vacancy may close before the current listed closing date. If you intend to apply you are advised not to delay submitting your completed application.
• We believe that using technology wisely reflects strong time management and a commitment to innovation. However, it's essential to personalise your recruitment application to showcase your unique skills and experiences. Over-reliance on generic, AI-generated content may result in rejection if multiple candidates submit applications with similar language or structure. In such cases, recruiting managers may reach out for further clarity where applications appear consistent with others, to better understand your individual strengths.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• Job Description-Person Specification (PDF, 770.8KB)
• HHFT Employee Rewards & Benefits (PDF, 723.8KB)
• Tackling Climate Change at Hampshire Hospitals (PDF, 4.9MB)