Consultant Community or Developmental Paediatrician

Job overview

Consultant in Children and Young People’s Gender Service (South West) Substantive, full-time post (part time and secondments welcome)

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust has an exciting opportunity for a substantive consultant(s) based within the Paediatric Department at University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust. The successful applicant(s) will join a multi-disciplinary team delivering a new Children and Young People’s Gender Service (South West).

This role is suited to a paediatrician with expertise in developmental and community paediatrics and/or adolescent health. The consultant is primarily responsible for delivering a high-quality clinical service, as well as contributing to the leadership and strategic development of the service.

The Cass Review has recommended that staff should maintain a broad clinical perspective by working across related NHS services in order to embed the care of children and young people with gender-related distress within a broader child and adolescent health context. In order to facilitate this, we encourage part-time applications from staff already working within other NHS or community paediatric services. We can also work with successful candidates applying for full-time roles to agree a job plan that includes a mix of gender service activity and activity in another clinical or allied area within UHBW (for example safeguarding, general paediatrics, medical education).

Main duties of the job

Clinical work will include -

• 1)    To contribute to an interdisciplinary team with input to biopsychosocial assessment and management, with a focus on patient safety. 2)    To provide a bespoke snapshot of the CYP current pubertal staging to allow visualisation of future self and peers to include: - a.    Tanner staging of secondary sexual characteristics b.    Predicted changes in height based on current height/weight and previous available heights. c.    Predicted changes and evolution of secondary sexual characteristic d.    Predicted onset of menses where relevant 3)    To provide a snapshot of current nutritional health, weight and height to feed into onward bespoke dietary advice and guidance concentrating on bone health 4)    To provide a development and physical health overview, contributing to MDT decision making including eligibility for GnRH trial with specific recommendations that include: a.    Contraception b.    Optimisation for bone health (e.g nutrition and exercise) c.    Referral for blood test and Bone scans for PATHWAYS trial as indicated NB These may be ultimately undertaken by research staff d.    Green or Amber light outcome for PATHWAY trial. 5)    To provide a development and physical health overview that considers and highlights future self-health awareness to include: 6)    To seek guidance from Paediatric Endocrinologist and share with multi-professional team

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details of this position