Community Consultant Paediatrician Thurrock
The closing date is 25 August 2026

Job summary
JOB TITLE: Consultant Community Paediatrician Thurrock - South West Essex
CONTRACT: 10 Programmed Activities (10 PAs) Substantive
Flexible working available including job share, part-time, remote sessions considered
BASE: Thurrock Community Hospital, Long Lane, Grays, RM16 2PX

Post and Specialty:
This is a newly created post following additional funding added to a previous part-time post. A lot of transformation has taken place already and continues to take place in Essexs Community Children and Young Peoples Services. This post is currently vacant, and we wish to recruit to this post as soon as possible.

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

It is a substantive post and we would consider requests for flexible working, job share or fixed term if preferred.

The successful candidate will provide senior medical support to the team, and direct input on clinical cases, and work closely with 0.8wte Consultant Paediatrician (Dr Kaushik Banerjee), and 1.8wte Specialist Grade Doctor (out to recruitment) in the Team. 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.

Main duties of the job
This is a newly created post following additional funding added to a previous part-time post. A lot of transformation has taken place already and continues to take place in Essexs Community Children and Young Peoples Services. This post is currently vacant, and we wish to recruit to this post as soon as possible.

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

On-call responsibiliommunity Paediatrician
This post is for a Consultant Paediatrician position in the South West Essex Community Paediatric team. This specific post is for the Thurrock part of the service and is based at the Integrated Child Health Service at Gifford House, Thurrock Community Hospital, Long Lane, Grays, RM16 2PX, where the post holder will work in an integrated multidisciplinary team.

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.

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 Thurrock. 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.

About us
NELFT NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health and community services for over 4.9 million people living in the London Boroughs of Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Barking and Dagenham, Havering, and across Essex.

We work to ensure our patients, their friends and family, feel confident that their health needs are well met. With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled health professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care.

Details
Date posted: 28 July 2026
Pay scheme: Hospital medical and dental staff
Grade: Consultant
Salary: £113,565 to £150,569 a year
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 3EL-001651
Job locations: Thurrock Community Hospital, Grays, Essex, RM16 2PX

Job responsibilities
The successful candidate will provide senior medical support to the team, and direct input on clinical cases, and work closely with 0.8wte Consultant Paediatrician (Dr Kaushik Banerjee), and 1.8wte Specialist Grade Doctor (out to recruitment) in the Team. 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 Basildon University Hospital.

We have Core Paediatric Trainees from London and Eastern Deanery, with a joint training programme with BHRUT, Basildon, and Whipps Cross Hospital. Medical Students are on placement from Cambridge and Barts and the London Medical Schools including medical students on the innovative “Medicine in Society” module from QMUL.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• MRCPCH by examination or equivalent.
• Full GMC registration.
• On the GMCs Specialist Register or within six months of CCT at time of scheduled interview.
• CCT/CCST or equivalent accreditation in Community Paediatrics or equivalent training and experience.

Experience
Essential

• At least 2 years General Professional Training in paediatrics.
• 3 years Higher Specialist Training, including 2 years in Community Paediatrics, or is able to demonstrate having achieved the competencies equivalent to the Highest Specialist Paediatric Training
• Training in Neurodisability
• Valid Level 3 Safeguarding Training.
• Valid BLS Training

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.

Employer details
Employer name: NELFT North East London Foundation Trust
Address: Thurrock Community Hospital, Grays, Essex, RM16 2PX, United Kingdom
Employer's website: Apply through our website

For questions about the job, contact:
Associate Medical Director, Viviana Porcari, medicalstaffinghr@nelft.nhs.uk

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