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GPwSPi Children Looked After Harrow | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Job details
Posting date: 17 April 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £68,975 - £104,085 Plus London Zone Allowance £2162 Per annum, Pro-rata
Hours: Part time
Closing date: 17 May 2024
Location: Ruislip, Middlesex, HA4 0TN
Company: CNWL NHS Foundation Trust
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 6235132/33-G-HCS-GP-0001

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Summary

GPwSPI Children Looked After Harrow
Permanent, 2PAs per week



Are you an experienced medical practitioner who is passionate about the health needs of children looked after?

Would you like to use your expertise in children’s health and development in a creative way to improve the health outcomes for children looked after?
If so, then we would like to hear from you.

We are an established team who welcome innovative practice.

This post will provide a unique opportunity for an experienced, enthusiastic and motivated GP who wishes to pursue a special interest and develop their skills in working with vulnerable children and young people.

You will work closely with the Harrow Children Looked After Health Team to provide a flexible service
undertaking health assessments for children looked after.
This would be an ideal job for a local GP or Paediatrician wishing to work additional sessions, or to create a varied portfolio of experience while developing their experience in this specialist area.

CNWL is a nationally leading NHS Foundation Trust providing Mental Health, Community Health and Child Health Services across London and the South East of England.

Over the last few years our catchment area has grown significantly, making the Trust’s population more diverse than ever. The area spans the communities of London, Milton Keynes and wider geographical areas of Buckinghamshire, Surrey, Kent and Hampshire. There are areas of great affluence as well as deprivation, and there are over 100 first-languages spoken in these communities.

We were authorised as a Foundation Trust on 1 May 2007.

The Trust is organised in to three Divisions: Jameson, Goodall and Diggory. Goodall Division is responsible for the delivery of Mental Health and community Learning Disability services in Hillingdon, as well as all CNWL’s specialist rehabilitation provision and CAMHS provision in NW London. We also deliver community physical health services in a number of boroughs in NW London, including Hillingdon Harrow, Ealing and neighbouring System of North Central London.

Our staff play a fundamental role in our delivery of excellent outcomes and excellent patient experience, so it is our aim to create a happy and healthy working environment where you can thrive and succeed.

www.cnwl.nhs.uk

Clinical role
• To ensure that children looked after receive timely and good quality health assessments which clearly identify health needs.
• To identify appropriate health recommendations including outstanding immunisations and to refer onward appropriately.
• To follow up any outstanding actions from health assessments undertaken.
• To provide a young person friendly approach using ‘You’re Welcome’ quality standards.
• To develop expertise in providing assessments to adolescents and unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and young people.
• To use IT appropriately to record all patient activity on the electronic health record.
• To undertake paediatric / observational developmental assessments.
• To be actively involved and contribute to children looked after audits and QI projects.
• To produce timely, accurate and good quality reports as required.
• To support the Medical Advisor for Fostering and Adoption.
• To ensure that clinical practice delivers quality and effectiveness as determined by evidence base on research and practice.
• To work flexibly to deliver a service to meet young people’s wide-ranging needs.
• To work effectively on an inter-professional and interagency basis.
• To offer advice where required to other professionals such as foster carers/key workers and social workers about the health management of looked after children.

Policy and Inter Agency Responsibilities
• To understand all relevant child safeguarding policies.
• To actively lead on the development and implementation of relevant and up to date policies and procedures across Central and North West London (CNWL) focusing on the aspects which specifically relate to children looked after and primary care.
• To contribute to identification of unmet health needs/gaps in service provision and promote innovative service solutions.
• To reflect on and apply lessons learnt from audit, case management reviews, significant case reviews to improve practice.

Co-ordination and Communication
• To ensure regular and timely communication with colleagues in community and acute services.
• To work closely with the Children Looked After Health Team.
• To liaise with Social Care and Education Services as required to ensure the needs of children are me.
• To liaise with GPs, Health Visitors, School Nurses and other health care professionals to ensure that health needs for children are followed up.


This advert closes on Monday 29 Apr 2024

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