Locum Consultant Paediatrician - Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom - University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust

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Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom

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Description

Division:
Children's, Women's & Diagnostics

Job Title:
Locum Paediatric Consultant

Grade:
Locum Consultant

Location:
University Hospitals of North Midlands

Hours of Duty: 3.0PAs

Managerially accountable to:
Clinical Director

Professionally accountable to:
Clinical Director, Medical Director

Key Relationships:

Consultant and other medical colleagues

Clinical Director

Directorate Manager

Divisional & Directorate Management

Senior Nursing colleagues

This post is based at Staffordshire Children's Hospital at Royal Stoke which is part of the University

Hospitals of North Midlands (UHNM) NHS Trust. The paediatric department at UHNM primarily delivers acute paediatric care to the local children of Staffordshire and beyond.

This post is to provide general paediatric outpatient clinics.

Staffordshire Children's Hospital is part of UHNM which has two sites: Royal Stoke University Hospital, located in Stoke-on-Trent, and County Hospital, located in Stafford.

The Staffordshire Children's Hospital is based at the Royal Stoke site, all inpatient services for children are there. Outpatient clinics run at both sites.

The Paediatric Department is one of the largest in the country with a number of sub speciality areas receiving tertiary care referrals.

The Trust has a purpose built Children's Centre comprising of inpatient wards, Children's A&E and admissions unit and outpatients department adjacent to the Child Development Centre.

The Child Health Directorate provides a wide range of services encompassing acute paediatrics, paediatric and neonatal intensive care, outpatients and community paediatrics.

We also provide consultant support to the children's emergency centre and deliver a range of paediatric general and speciality clinics on the County Hospital site.

Flexible working requests will be considered.

A detailed job description is available and can be found within the supporting documents.

Take ongoing responsibility for patients under your care.
Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with colleagues in other specialties
Develop and maintain good communications with General Practitioners and appropriate external agencies.
Demonstrate a firm involvement in Clinical Governance, Risk Management and Clinical Audit. This will include the development and maintenance of appropriate systems and practices to ensure continued safe clinical practice.
Ensure own practice is uptodate. This will involve taking responsibility for own Clinical Professional Development and participating in the Trust's Performance and Annual Review system.
Share responsibility for data protection arising out of the use of computers.
Comply with all relevant Trust Policies and Procedures.
Take responsibility for improving and complying with infection control practices
Ensure that all Trustwide standards are maintained to improve the quality of total care to all who come into contact with services provided by UHNM