Job Description for Locum Consultant Paediatric

JOB DESCRIPTION LOCUM CONSULTANT PAEDIATRIAN WITH SPECIAL INTEREST IN HAEMATOLOGY/ONCOLOGY Royal London Children’s Hospital The job description contains the following sections. Summary of post Job description Barts Health NHS Trust The Paediatric Clinical Academic Group The Paediatric Service The job plan Person specification 1 BARTS HEALTH NHS TRUST LOCUM CONSULTANT PAEDIATRIAN WITH SPECIAL INTEREST IN HAEMATOLOGY/ONCOLOGY Part 1: SUMMARY The Department of Paediatric Haematology-Oncology at the Royal London Children’s Hospital, part of Barts Health NHS Trust, is seeking to appoint a Consultant Paediatrician with Special Interest in Haematology/Oncology (10 PAs). This is for a period of 6 months to cover leave and support the growing service and multidisciplinary team which currently consists of one locum paediatrician with special interest, three haematologists/paediatric haematologists, three paediatric oncology nurse specialists and two paediatric haematology nurse specialists based at the Royal London Hospital (RLH). Additionally the post holder will support development and delivery of care of paediatric haematology at Whipps Cross Hospital together with the three haematologists/paediatric haematologists and nurse specialists based at the RLH. The Royal London Hospital is a Specialist Haemoglobinopathy Team (SHT) for haemoglobinopathies within the East London and Essex Haemoglobinopathy Network and was recently awarded Haemoglobinopathy Coordinating Centre status (HCC) for sickle cell and thalassaemia. Additionally the RLH provides specialist paediatric haematology services to patients within the region. As part of The UCLH Cancer Collaborative (North East London and W Essex), the Royal London Hospital has close links with the two Primary Treatment Centres (PTC): Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. With reconfiguration of the oncology networks, the Barts Health Paediatric Oncology Shared Care Unit (POSCU) team anticipates NHSE reconfiguration of children’s cancer services and aims to develop a high level shared care service. The Royal London Hospital remains a PTC for the Retinoblastoma Surgery & Retinoblastoma Radiotherapy service. The post is based at the Royal London Children’s Hospital located within the recently rebuilt Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, London. The Royal London Hospital is part of the newly merged Barts Health NHS Trust (Royal London Hospital, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, Mile End Hospital, Whipps Cross and Newham University Hospitals) and is now one of the largest trusts in the UK. The post-holder will support and develop the paediatric haematology and oncology services. Additional support will be provided to the team at Whipps Cross Hospital (currently level 1 POSCU and Local Haemoglobinopathy Team (LHT)). The post holder will participate in an attending rota covering the haematology and oncology inpatients based at the Royal London Hospital and participate in a general paediatrics on call rota. The successful candidate will be encouraged to develop a special interest and multidisciplinary clinics will be encouraged. Participation in research and clinical trials is strongly encouraged. There are close links with district general hospitals in East London and Essex and the post holder will be responsible for providing specialist haemoglobinopathy support to local patients and those within the wider Network, including participating in 2 multidisciplinary team meetings and management duties. Input into the liaison paediatric haematology consultative work for the Trust would be expected including laboratory diagnostics. The post holder will also be encouraged to support the paediatric haemostasis and thrombosis service based within the Haemophilia Comprehensive Centre. It is a condition of the appointment that the post holder will be willing to work in any of the Trust’s locations. The Children’s Hospital is a tertiary referral centre for paediatric general and neonatal surgery, paediatric orthopaedics, paediatric trauma, paediatric ENT and maxillofacial surgery, paediatric plastic surgery and paediatric dermatology. It is also a tertiary centre for paediatric respiratory medicine (including Cystic Fibrosis), paediatric gastroenterology, endocrinology and neurology. The Children’s Service also provides secondary paediatric care for our local population and shared care service in Cardiology and Renal medicine. The Children’s Hospital is supported by dedicated paediatric departments of radiology, paediatric anaesthesia (24h dedicated cover) and neonatology including a 36 cot surgical and medical neonatal intensive care unit. It has the busiest paediatric ED department in London with over 38,000 attendances per year at the Royal London site alone. As a designated Major Trauma Centre the Hospital has close links with the local Trauma Units and the Trauma service including the HEMS trauma retrieval service. S/he will work closely with the multidisciplinary team to provide excellent care to children with oncological and haematological diagnoses. Further opportunities also exist to develop services within the oncology,haemoglobinopathy as well as the haemostasis and thrombosis service. Tower Hamlets PCT has been designated as a first wave Children's Trust and this will provide the post holder a unique opportunity for clinical leadership in the development of integrated services for vulnerable children in a challenging Inner City location. The Royal London Hospital has close ties with the local GPs and the community, and so s/he will be expected to take direct GP referrals (where appropriate). The Children’s hospital has a strong academic focus and participation in education and research is encouraged. Honorary academic contracts with the medical school can be arranged as required. Applicants are expected to be on the specialist Register or within 6 months of receiving their CCT at the time of interview for UK trainees within an approved training post; with GMC registration with a licence to practice. Applicants are strongly advised to arrange a visit to the Children’s Hospital to discuss the post with members of the clinical teams. 3 PART 2: JOB DESCRIPTION Job Title: Consultant Paediatrician with Special Interest in Haematology/Oncology Contract: 10 PAs Department: Paediatric Haematology and Oncology, The Royal London’s Children’s Hospital (Barts Health NHS Trust) Responsible to: Clinical Director, Children’s Health Clinical Duties Provide Paediatric Haematology /oncology care (inpatients and outpatients) at Barts Health NHS Trust and an outreach service to neighbouring community and hospital trusts where appropriate and subject to commissioning. The post holder will be expected to participate in an attending rota of 1:4 during normal working hours (covering the haematology and oncology in-patients at the RLH) and in a general paediatrics on call rota. This includes advice to the paediatric teams based at the regional hospitals looking after patients with haemoglobinopathies and non-malignant haematology. The post holder will be expected to cover the service when other colleagues are on holiday/study/professional leave. The post holder will be up to date in child protection training and undertake appropriate review and action on cases. The post holder will contribute to the training, development and education of medical and nursing staff and medical students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The post holder will foster multidisciplinary working and take an active role in developing clinical governance initiatives, by participation in multidisciplinary audit, clinical effectiveness initiatives and risk management. The post holder will review and modify current practice based on accepted techniques of audit and use of evidence based guidelines. The post holder will be ‘in good standing’ with the RCPCH by making regular returns to the RCPCH of CPD activities as required. Management To participate in the management and administrative duties within the Paediatric Department as appropriate. 4 Accountability The appointee will have full professional independence on medical matters but will be managerially accountable to the Trust and the Chief Executive, through his / her Lead Clinician, the CAG Director and General Manager. Clinical Governance The appointee will be required to participate in all clinical governance activities related to the activities of Paediatric Medicine, Paediatric Anaesthesia and Children’s Services as appropriate. This will include contributing to clinical audit, clinical risk activities, clinical incident reporting, responding to complaints within the Trust’s expected timescale, and participating in the development of the involvement of users and their carers in planning and monitoring of the various clinical services. The post holder is expected to participate in the Trust’s clinical effectiveness activities, and to encourage and foster improvements in the quality and standards of clinical services. The post-holder will assist with the safeguarding of high standards of care by participating in the creation of an environment in which excellence in clinical care will flourish. There is also a Clinical Effectiveness Unit, which is responsible for the dissemination of clear national quality standards (established by the National Institute of Clinical Excellence), and the assessment of related local practice. The Children's Hospital hold monthly half-day clinical effectiveness meetings,

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