Job summary

This post in the community paediatric team has been created following the retirement of one of our existing consultants. The appointee will be responsible for leading the department in providing neurodevelopmental clinics in the New Forest, with responsibility for a special school covering a wide range of disabilities in children aged 3-19. The post also involves a contribution to the teaching of undergraduate medical students; the supervision of trainees and specialty doctors, lead for postgraduate education; and a contribution to the acute child protection rota for physical and sexual abuse. The exact job plan is negotiable to meet the needs of the department and the skills of the appointee.

The service provides clinics for children referred because of developmental or educational concerns, special school clinics, general paediatric clinics in Southampton City, statutory health assessments for Looked After Children and a child protection medical service seeing children referred because of concerns of neglect, physical and sexual abuse. There are also opportunities for undergraduate medical student teaching, quality improvement projects and involvement with research.

All posts are based in office hours, with a pay supplement to reflect availability until 7pm when on call for child protection. There is no night or weekend working. Although this post is full time, we would consider applications from those wishing to work part time, for a minimum of 6 PAs/sessions per week.

Main duties of the job

• Coordinate the departmental provision for paediatric neurodevelopmental outpatient clinics in the New Forest, including the clinical supervision of trainees, specialty doctors and nurses providing these clinics.
• Teach undergraduate medical students from the University of Southampton Medical School.
• Provide educational supervision to core and grid paediatric trainees, Foundation doctors and GPVTS trainees as required (subject to training by Wessex Deanery and recognition by the GMC). Departmental lead role for postgraduate education.
• Contribute to the child protection medical service for the assessment and management of children in whom abuse or neglect are suspected. This includes on-duty cover for acute assessment of both physical and sexual abuse on weekdays approximately 30 days per year.
• Depending on previous experience and special interests, there may be opportunities to deliver multidisciplinary feeding clinics, continence clinics, Looked After Children's clinics or general paediatric outpatient clinics.

About us

We have been working with other local NHS Trusts to create a new organisation, bringing together all community, mental health and learning disability services from across Hampshire and Isle of Wight. Subject to approvals, the aim is for the new Trust to be formed by the end of 2024.

Project Fusion is the name for the programme to create the new combined NHS Foundation Trust. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust will be bringing the services into a single organisation will result in more consistent care, more equitable access to services irrespective of postcode, and a more sustainable workforce and services. The new organisation will operate locally to ensure services can best meet the needs of different communities.

The new Trust will be comprised of all the services currently provided by Solent NHS Trust and Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, the community, mental health and learning disability services provided by Isle of Wight NHS Trust and child and adolescent mental health services delivered in parts of Hampshire by Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

Colleagues will transfer to the new organisation under Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) -- known as TUPE on the day the trust is formed. TUPE is a legal process to ensure you transfer out of one organisation and into another, maintaining the terms and conditions of your employment.