Consultant Paediatrician - Interest in Neurology & Epilepsy

Job overview

Walsall Healthcare Trust has an exciting opportunity to appoint a Consultant Paediatrician with experience and expertise in paediatric neurology and epilepsy. The appointee will work within the Department of Paediatrics and Neonates at Manor Hospital, Walsall in a substantive capacity. This is to augment the current team in order to manage the increasing general paediatric, paediatric neurology and epilepsy work in the department.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will join an established team of committed paediatricians who work together to plan and deliver an excellent quality of care to the children and young people of Walsall borough.

The Department of Paediatrics works on a Paediatric Consultant of the Week (PCOW) system that provides dedicated consultant cover for the paediatric in-patient and the paediatric day case ward.

Since 2019 we had a dedicated day time consultant cover for PAU (PCOW2) during winter months and since April 2023 this has been extended to throughout the year following the relocation of the Paediatric Assessment Unit to the front door Urgent and Emergency Care Centre (UECC). The out of hours tier 3 level on-call cover is shared among the consultants participating in the general paediatrics on-call rota.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a senior medical member of NHS Walsall, it is expected that the post holder will work in close co-operation with and support other clinical, medical professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality and safe health care to patients.

The appointee will be expected to:

• Work with other consultants to provide integrated paediatric services with responsibility for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness. This will include the planning and development, management and delivery of these services.
• Provide effective leadership to all staff engaged in specialty and related services.
• Undertake all work in accordance with Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust policies and procedures, and conduct clinical practice in accordance with contractual requirements and within the parameters of Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust service plans
• Have excellent communication and liaison skills and the ability to work within a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency team
• Participate in the paediatric consultant of the week (PCOW) and paediatric out of hours on-call system as per rota currently operational in the department.  Safeguarding cover out of hours is also provided by the on-call consultant.
• Supporting the general paediatric and paediatric neurology and epilepsy service will be integral part of this post though additional interests are always welcome, e.g., palliative care, paediatric ambulatory medicine, HDU, medical education, safeguarding etc.
• Provide prospective cover for colleagues for purposes of annual, study and professional leave. This is arranged by exchange of acute commitments including on-call duties.
• Provide supervision and training of junior medical staff including undertaking supervised learning events.
• Participate in the established teaching programme for junior doctors and medical students, and act as educational and clinical supervisors for junior doctors following formal accreditation.
• Ensure that staff in their work area receive appropriate mandatory training commensurate with the range and level of work to be undertaken.
• Take responsibility for ensuring evidence-based practice and improving quality of service by participating in departmental clinical governance activities, audit programme and QI projects.
• Engage actively in the Trust appraisal and revalidation process.
• Participate in on-going research activity as deemed appropriate.