COMMUNITY CONSULTANT PAEDIATRICIAN & NAMED DOCTOR FOR LAC

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NAMED DOCTOR FOR LOOKED AFTER CHILDREN and MEDICAL ADVISOR FOR ADOPTION

This post is for a Consultant Paediatrician position in the community, in the Barking and Dagenham Specialist Children Service, based at the Child and Family Health Centre, 79 Axe Street, Barking, IG11 7L.This is a newly created post, following investment by the place based ICB to support the increase demand on Community Paediatric services. A lot of transformation has taken place already and continues to take place in Barking and Dagenham community babies, children, and young people services. This post is currently vacant, and we wish to recruit substantively to this post as soon as possible.Job Summary

COMMUNITY CONSULTANT PAEDIATRICIAN

NAMED DOCTOR FOR LOOKED AFTER CHILDREN and MEDICAL ADVISOR FOR ADOPTION

This post is for a Consultant Paediatrician position in the community, in the Barking and Dagenham Specialist Children Service, based at the Child and Family Health Centre, 79 Axe Street, Barking, IG11 7L.This is a newly created post, following investment by the place based ICB to support the increase demand on Community Paediatric services. A lot of transformation has taken place already and continues to take place in Barking and Dagenham community babies, children, and young people services. This post is currently vacant, and we wish to recruit substantively to this post as soon as possible.

This is a new, substantive, full-time - 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) post with 7.5 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 2.5 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs).

There is no on call requirement at night, although the post holder will participate in a daytime on-call rota 9am - 5pm to deliver child protection medical examinations.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will work as part of a fully integrated multidisciplinary specialist team providing care to children and young people with health needs, across Barking and Dagenham. The successful applicant will also become part of a large (30+ community paediatricians), dynamic, community paediatric team, across the whole of North East London Foundation Trust.

The successful candidate will provide senior medical support to the team, and direct input on clinical cases. The consultant will be expected to provide guidance and supervision to the team, work directly with babies, children, and young people (and their families), and liaise as appropriate with other external health providers, and acute hospitals.

There will also be the opportunity for the post holder to further develop links already established with the local acute trusts, in order to continually improve our services. There are close links with the acute paediatric department at Kind George Hospital (Ilford) and Queens Hospital (Romford) alongside Tertiary colleagues at the Royal London and Great Ormond Street Hospital.

About Us

Why NELFT?

NELFT is an award-winning community and mental health Trust, providing healthcare for over 4.9 million people, ensuring our patients, family and friends feel confident that their health needs are met. We are committed to delivering the

best care

to the communities we serve across North East London, Essex and Kent.

With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled healthcare professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care. Joining us will provide you with unparalleled access to training opportunities, continuous CPD, peer support groups, and a robust supervision and appraisal system.

Details

Date posted

20 July 2025

Pay scheme

Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade

Consultant

Salary

£105,504 to £139,882 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

395-MED226-25

Job locations

79 Axe Street

Barking

Essex

IG11 7LX

Job Description

Job responsibilities

To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others workload in the day-to-day allocation of work.To deputise when required in the team managers absence and delegate appropriately to other medical staff.To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them.To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing, and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trusts risk register.

Job Description

Job responsibilities

To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others workload in the day-to-day allocation of work.To deputise when required in the team managers absence and delegate appropriately to other medical staff.To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them.To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing, and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trusts risk register.

Person Specification

GMC

Essential

oFull GMC registration with a licence to practice

CCT

Essential

oCCT or equivalent

Specialist Register

Essential

oInclusion in, or eligibility for inclusion in the Specialist Register or within 6 months of obtaining CCST

Person Specification

GMC

Essential

oInclusion in, or eligibility for inclusion in the Specialist Register or within 6 months of obtaining CCST

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust

Address

79 Axe Street

Barking

Essex

IG11 7LX

Employer''s website

https://www.nelft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust

Address

79 Axe Street

Barking

Essex

IG11 7LX

Employer''s website

https://www.nelft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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