Consultant Paeds & Named Doctor for LAC
NELFT North East London Foundation Trust
Wanstead, E11 2DHView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£113,565 to £150,569
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
12 November 2026
24 days leftJob description
JOB TITLE: Community Consultant Paediatrician & Named Doctor for Looked After Children CONTRACT: 10 Programmed Activities (10 PAs) Flexible working av...
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 Barking and Dagenham. 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.
The successful candidate will provide medical support to the team, and direct input on clinical cases, and work closely with the Consultant Paediatricians, other specialist Grade Doctor Specialty, and Trainee Doctors in the Team. The Specialist Doctor will be expected to work directly with babies, children, and young people (and their families), and liaise as appropriate with other multidisciplinary team members and 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 Kind George Hospital (Ilford) and Queens Hospital (Romford) alongside Tertiary colleagues at the Royal London and Great Ormond Street Hospital.
- To be responsible for organising and prioritising own workload in the day-to-day allocation of work.
- To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them.
- To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.
- To contribute to effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing, and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust’s risk register.
- The post holder will be the named doctor for children looked after covering medical advisor role for adoption & fostering
- The post holder will contribute to statutory work in assessing children in care for Initial Health Assessments and child protection medicals. They will also support management of complex Paediatric Neurodevelopment within the service. (including motor disorder, Down’s syndrome, dyspraxia, chromosomal and genetic conditions, and other syndromes).
- To act as an autonomous, registered practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for own unsupervised actions guided by the professional code of conduct and Trust guidelines and protocols.
- The post holder will have full registration with a licence to practice with the General Medical Council (GMC).
- Further professional knowledge will have been gained through accredited courses, workshops, study, and in-house training programmes.
- To be responsible, and accountable, for service delivery to clients/patients.
- To be able to assess and develop care plans to meet the complex needs of patients with a variety of conditions. This includes chronic, acute, and palliative care within own competencies, recognising own limitations and seeking advice when necessary. This will include continuously evaluating and acting on outcomes.
- To be able to initiate referrals to other health professional specialist services and agencies.
- To provide patients and relatives with information and education thus ensuring they have meaningful choices that promote dignity, independence, and quality of life.
- To ensure practice is supported by research, evidence-based practice, literature, and peer review.
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.
Qualifications
Essential: - Registration with the GMC with a licence to practice.; -; -
Desirable: - Higher degree e.g. DCH, DCCH MSc, or MRCP
Experience
Essential
- At least 4 years post graduate training including community paediatrics
- (or demonstrate equivalent experience and competences )
- Knowledge and training in Child safeguarding
- Valid Level 3 Safeguarding Training
Desirable
- Specialist experience / training in particular area of CCH practice.
- Training in objective developmental assessment e.g. Griffith
- Developmental Scales.
- Training in Autism assessment e.g. DISCO or ADI/ADOS.
How to apply
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First seen
15 October 2026
Last checked
19 October 2026
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