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Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

About

The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH) is one of the largest acute teaching Trusts in the UK, with a national and international reputation for the excellence of its services and its role in teaching and research.

Find out more about the Trust on their web-site at www.ouh.nhs.uk

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Contact

Address: Oxford Univ Hosps NHS Foundation Trust; OUHC HR Department,; 3rd Floor Unipart House Business Centre; Garsington Road; Oxford; Oxfordshire; OX4 2PG
Contact Number: 01865 741186

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Ref: Community Paeds South Con Vacancy ID: 7105281

Community Paediatric South Substantive Consultant

Accepting applications until: 15-Nov-2025 23:59

Vacancy status: Open

Accepting applications until: 15-Nov-2025 23:59

Location

Site: John Radcliffe
Address: Headington
Town: OXFORD
Postcode: OX3 9DU
Major / Minor Region: Oxfordshire

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 7.5 sessions per week (0)

Salary

Salary: £109,725 - £145,478 0
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant)

Specialty

Main area: Community Paediatric Consultant

The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.

The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

Many of our recruitment programmes use values-based interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significance difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families.

For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit http://www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values/default.aspx

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical
The post-holder’s commitments will include routine Community Paediatrics/Neurodisability
assessments including secondary level review and management of children with developmental
difficulties, special educational needs, overseeing and monitoring multidisciplinary assessment
processes and child protection assessments. The post holder will provide
community/neurodisability care for a defined geographical patch and for a special school. The
department runs a Monday-Friday 9am-5pm on-call system for child protection. The child
protection workload is therefore not limited to fixed sessions each week, as cover may be needed
at other times.
Clinical work will include a range of activities including clinical assessment, multidisciplinary
assessments, supervising specialist registrar/speciality doctor and contributing to the departmental
child protection rota.
Appropriate administrative support will be provided.
Our Community Paediatrics department has a dynamic and vibrant training programme and enjoys
excellent links to the children’s specialist services. We have a close mutiprofessional working
relationship with partner agencies including local authority, education and children’s therapy
services.
Teaching/Research
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a teaching hospital trust with academic links
to Oxford University, and the post-holder will be required to participate in programmes for teaching
undergraduate clinical students, training junior doctors, multidisciplinary teaching and in clinical
examinations. It is expected that this will be an integral part of everyday clinical activity.
The post-holder’s contribution to teaching, training and research will be included in the regular job plan review.

COVID-19: The COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment at this time, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks and so that we can support those who may be undecided about vaccination. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information at Oxfordshire County Council Website where you can also find out more about how to access vaccination. There is a current Government consultation underway which will determine whether some new starters may need to be vaccinated.

No unsolicited recruitment agency telephone calls or emails.

Please make sure that you read the job description and person specification attached below, and that your statement in support reflects this as your application will be judged against these criteria.

All candidates will be contacted with an update on the application. The majority of correspondence will be via the e-recruitment system, therefore you should check your emails regularly including junk mail folders in web-based email products.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Full GMC with licence to practice
MRCPCH, MRCP or equivalent
CCT/CESR with Registration on GMC Specialist Register in Paediatrics or within 6 months of CCT at the time of interview
CCT in Community Paediatrics or equivalent experience in Community Paediatrics (or within 6 months of CCT at time of interview)
Trained to level 3 safeguarding / Child Protection

Experience

Essential criteria

Comprehensive training in Community Paediatrics including children safeguarding work. Must have held hospital appointments in Paediatrics at SHO/ST1-3 and registrar/ST4-8 level
Evidence of ability to make independent decisions at Consultant level and to manage complex clinical problems.

Desirable criteria

Experience and training in writing child protection reports, in providing advice about child protection cases and attending case conferences and court room experience
Level of responsibility Evidence of ability to make independent decisions at Consultant level and to manage complex clinical problems. Locum Consultant Experience preferably in Community Paediatrics

Skills

Essential criteria

Leadership skills: Ability to lead a team of professionals
Organisation and management skills: Effective administrative and time management skills. Management qualification. Knowledge of the organisation of the NHS and the Government’s agenda for its modernisation.
Professional - extra skills or achievements: Evidence of significant contribution to successful teamwork Computing skills; ability to use a word processor, spread sheet programme and web browser.
Communication and interpersonal skills: Good spoken and written English. Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills.
Communication and interpersonal skills: Training or experience in difficult communications
Teaching and training skills: Experience of formal and informal contributions to teaching and training. Education qualification Interest in teaching with portfolio of teaching and training achievements.
Clinical governance experience: Evidence of effective and sustained contribution to clinical governance, clinical risk management and clinical audit activities. Evidence of service improvement

Desirable criteria

Management qualification.
Knowledge of the organisation of the NHS and the Government’s agenda for its modernisation.
Computing skills; ability to use a word processor, spread sheet programme and web browser.
Training or experience in difficult communications
Interest in teaching with portfolio of teaching and training achievements
Education qualification
Evidence of service improvement

other requirements

Essential criteria

Driving Licence and access to a car for travel

Documents

Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Sarah Haden
Job title: Clinical Lead for Community Paediatrics
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 01865 231995
Additional information: For further information please contact Dr Sarah Haden, Clinical Lead for Community Paediatrics, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, The John Radcliffe (Tel: Oxford (01865 231995) or Dr Shelley Segal, Clinical Director for Children’s Services (Tel: 01865 572897).