Description
This is a Consultant Paediatrician position in the Barking and Dagenham Community Team, based at 79 Axe Street, Barking, IG11 7LZ. The role involves working 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 candidate will provide medical support to the team, and direct input on clinical cases, and work closely with the Consultant Paediatricians, other specialist Grade Doctor Specialty, and Trainee Doctors in the Team.
The post holder will be responsible for:
- Organising and prioritising own workload in the day-to-day allocation of work
- Having organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them
- Providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes
- Contributing to effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing, and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust’s risk register
- Acting as the named doctor for children looked after covering medical advisor role for adoption & fostering
- Contributing to statutory work in assessing children in care for Initial Health Assessments and child protection medicals
The post holder will have full registration with a licence to practice with the General Medical Council (GMC) and will be an autonomous, registered practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for own unsupervised actions guided by the professional code of conduct and Trust guidelines and protocols.
The salary for this position is £113,565 to £150,569 a year.