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Consultant Paediatrician
| Posting date: | 01 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £105,504.00 to £139,882.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £105504.00 - £139882.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 29 May 2025 |
| Location: | Kettering, NN16 8UZ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9264-25-0179 |
Summary
Main Role To provide a Consultant Paediatric and Neonatal service to children within the Trust in conjunction with Consultant Paediatriaccolleagues. The post is based at Kettering General Hospital NHS Trust. The post holder will reside within 10 miles or 30 minutes drive of the hospital. To maintain annual Appraisal and Job Planning with Clinical Director and Revalidation with the Responsible Officer. To participate in Junior Doctors appraisals, assessments, and training. To participate in medical students training. To participate in clinical governance activities of the department including participation in audits, developing, and updating guidelines, responding to complaints, and investigating adverse incidents. To participate in safeguarding children and when required by department, to accept rotational named doctor for safeguarding role. Paediatric Duties To receive direct referrals from General Practitioners, Consultant colleagues, members of the Community Child Health Department, other health professionals and members of other agencies dealing with children To provide outpatient clinics as per programme. To provide consultant cover for safeguarding children. To share the on-call Consultant Paediatric rota with the consultant colleagues. Internal cover is provided for absent colleagues. The on-call commitment includes cover for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The appointee will need the appropriate skills to provide this cover There is scope to have a dedicated time in the job plan to enhance and further develop the sub-speciality service delivery alongside the transformation programme. The Group model helps to enhance collaborative working as a county wide approach to speciality services with increased opportunity with a larger case mix, opportunities for research and enhancing excellence in paediatric care in Northants.