Consultant Paediatrician | NELFT NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	26 February 2026
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£109,725 - £145,478 per annum pro rota
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	28 March 2026
Location:	Chadwell Heath (Redbridge), RM6 4XH
Company:	North East London NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7836542/395-MED260-26

Summary

JOB TITLE: Consultant Paediatrician

CONTRACT: 10 Programmed Activities (10 PAs) – Full Time

Flexible working available



BASE: The Grove, Grove Road Chadwell Heath (Redbridge)RM6 4XH



The post is for 10 sessions Consultant Paediatrician in the BHR Neurodevelopmental service. The post holder will be a GMC registered clinician responsible for patients allocated to them and will assess, manage, plan, and deliver evidenced based care, including being professionally and legally accountable.

The post holder will support with clinical and operational leadership as part of a newly established Neurodevelopmental service for children and will support their peers and team leader whilst being an effective team member and working on their own initiative. They will supervise junior colleagues including provision of teaching and training. They will have a commitment to collaborative working and actively supporting and liaising with other health and social care professionals and agencies.



Job Description Pending Royal College Approval

The post holder will contribute as the Consultant Paediatrician in Redbridge for the BHR Neurodevelopmental service and will work alongside the team of substantive Paediatric and CAMHS consultants.

The successful applicant will also become part of a large (30+ community paediatricians), dynamic, community paediatric team, across the whole of Northeast London Foundation Trust.

Part of the post-holders’ duties will include service development, service evaluation and applied research.

The successful candidate will provide senior medical support to the team, and direct input on clinical cases. The consultant will be expected to provide guidance and supervision to the team, work directly with babies, children, and young people (and their families), and liaise as appropriate with other external health providers, and acute hospitals.

This post provides unique opportunity for the post holder to further develop links already established with the Tertiary and local acute trusts, in order to deliver specialist services within the community. There are existing 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.



The expectation of the post holder will be to support their team, department and organisation to follow the Trust’s Values in their day-to-day work.

● We are kind

● We are respectful

● We work with our communities

· To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others’ workload in the day-to-day allocation of work.

· To deputise when required in the team manager’s absence and delegate appropriately to other medical staff.

· 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 ensure 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 support the development of the Autism/ADHD service, working alongside the multidisciplinary specialist team. They will contribute towards assessment and relevant investigations and supervising MDT colleagues. They will produce reports to contribute to statutory work including EHC plans.

· Leverage opportunities to develop the integrated multidisciplinary Neurodevelopmental service across BHR

· Provide a high quality, accessible, timely, efficient, effective, comprehensive and specialist Neurodevelopmental service for children and young people, their carers/parents and families.

· Provide and/or support the provision of evidence-based assessment and clinical management for service users. This will include providing highly specialist assessment and contributing to multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment of children and young people referred to the Autism service.

·Responsible for assessment, treatment, and systemic outcome measurement in the specialist care pathway

· Contribute to coordination and service development within the Neurodevelopmental service

· Managing waiting list within specialist care pathway and ensuring waiting lists are at clinically safe level. Prioritise resources in line with clinical needs




This advert closes on Thursday 26 Mar 2026