Locum Consultant Paediatrician

Job description

Be part of our BHT family

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT) is an integrated provider of acute hospital and community services for people living in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area.

We care for over half a million patients every year:

• Provide specialist spinal services at our world renowned National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, the birthplace of the Paralympics
• Nationally recognised for urology and skin cancer services
• Regional specialist centre for burns, plastic surgery, dermatology, stroke and cardiac services
• Deliver community services in health centres, schools, patients' own homes, community hospitals and community hubs.

More than 6,500 people from different nations, cultures and backgrounds work for us.

We would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options. We strive to be a family friendly, inclusive employer.

If you require any assistance in making this application, please contact [email protected] or phone 01494 734868.

We pride ourselves in being a great place to work and invite you to join our BHT family.

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to join a forward-thinking team of consultant paediatricians within Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust.

We are seeking a General Paediatrician to play a key role in continuing to deliver our acute paediatric and neonatal services. There is also a new exciting role within our National Spinal Injuries Unit to work closely as their paediatric liaison.

The main purpose of this role will be to provide paediatric perspective for this group of children that are attending for rehabilitation purposes both as inpatients and outpatients. The consultant will provide general paediatric input to children and young people, including weekly ward reviews, MDT participation and high-quality clinical documentation, working collaboratively with the specialist spinal rehabilitation team.

Applications are welcome from those with special interest (s) in spinal injuries or neurological rehabilitation, but this is not essential to the role.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will join a team of consultants to undertake inpatient and outpatient work in Neonates and General Paediatrics including inpatient ward attending weeks, observation ward attending and on call activities on a pro-rata basis.

Outpatient
• There will be 1 General Paediatric clinics every week across Stoke Mandeville and Wycombe Hospitals ensuring local access for patient-
• Attending 1 spinal MDT clinic / week

On call
• The role will involve Paediatrician of the week (POW) and Neonatologist of the week (NOW) totalling 7 a year.
• There will also be attending weeks for the Children's Observation Unit (COU) within the Children's Emergency Department (CED)1.67 weeks / year. During these days s/he will have no other clinical commitment.
• The post holder will have resident duties on a fixed weekday evening working "Twilight" shifts from 16:00-22:00 hours within the Children's Emergency Department. There will be a weekend twilight shift to cover the Friday to Sunday evenings for 3 weekends a year to ensure that college standards for Facing the Future are fully met.

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