Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to join a committed and supportive Children's Services team within the Women's and Children's Division. Our paediatric services provide care for children, young people and families across mid-Nottinghamshire, working with acute, neonatal, community and system partners to deliver safe, responsive and compassionate care.

We are seeking a consultant who shares our values and will bring clinical expertise, leadership and a commitment to improving outcomes for children and young people. The successful candidate will support high-quality general paediatric care, contribute to service development, strengthen patient flow and work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team.

The role also supports development of our paediatric respiratory pathway and we welcome applications from candidates with a specialist interest or experience in paediatric respiratory medicine.

At Sherwood Forest Hospitals, we value kindness, respect and teamwork. We support consultants to develop their interests while contributing to leadership, teaching, governance and quality improvement activities.

This pack provides further details of the role, responsibilities and person specification. We hope it gives a clear sense of the opportunity and the contribution you could make. We welcome applications from candidates who are passionate about general paediatrics, committed to collaborative working and keen to help us continue improving care for our local communities.

Main duties of the job

• Provide a comprehensive general paediatric service across inpatient, ambulatory, outpatient and emergency care settings.
• Participate in the consultant on-call rota, including out-of-hours, weekend and acute paediatric/neonatal hot week cover.
• Support the development of paediatric respiratory services, including outpatient activity, pathway development and quality improvement.
• Work collaboratively with paediatric, neonatal, emergency department, community and multidisciplinary colleagues to deliver high-quality care.
• Provide clinical leadership, supporting patient flow, escalation, discharge planning and service improvement.
• Contribute to governance activities including audit, incident review, complaints management, risk management and quality improvement.
• Supervise and support junior medical staff and promote safe clinical practice.
• Participate in teaching, training, supervision and educational activities for undergraduate and postgraduate learners.
• Maintain appraisal, revalidation, continuing professional development and job planning requirements.
• Comply with Trust policies and GMC Good Medical Practice standards.
• Promote safeguarding, infection prevention, health and safety, equality, diversity and inclusion.
• Undertake additional duties appropriate to the role, including responsibilities linked to a specialist interest in paediatric respiratory care.

About us
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark, Sherwood and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for anywhere in the East Midlands for six years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of duties and responsibilities.

Qualifications
Essential

• Full registration (and with a licence to practise) with the General Medical Council (GMC)
• Specialist registration with the General Medical Council (GMC)
• MRCP, MRCPCH by examination or equivalent
• CCT in general paediatrics

Desirable

• Higher degree e.g. MSc, MD or other higher degree

Experience
Essential

• Evidence of appropriate competencies and experience to fulfil the duties of the post
• At least 2 years general professional training in paediatrics
• Usually 5 years Higher Specialist Training
• Training is now competency based, but a certain level of experience is still expected: see 'Subspecialty training requirements' document here: http://www.rcpch.ac.uk/trainingexaminationsprofessionaldevelopment/paediatric-careersandrecruitment/paediatric-recru-0
• Broad experience of all clinical aspects of acute paediatrics
• Ability to maintain clinical credibility and authority with a multi-professional team including senior trainees

Desirable

• SPIN

Management & administrative experience
Essential

• Ability to effectively organise and manage clinical workload
• Experience of partnership working across other agencies (Social Services, Education)

Teaching
Essential

• Ability to teach undergraduate medical students in outpatient clinics, wards and other teaching methods
• Support, teach and assess postgraduate paediatric trainees

Desirable

• Demonstrable ability as a teacher with evidence of training for the role

Research
Essential

• Ability to convert research evidence into clinical practice

Desirable

• Participation in clinical research trials
• Publications in peer-reviewed journals

Other
Essential

• Communication skills - to have language competency and communication skills necessary to do the job safely & competently
• Ability to communicate effectively with team members, patients, relatives, GPs, nurses and other agencies
• Commitment to Continuing Medical Education and the requirements of Clinical Governance and Audit

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