Consultant Paediatrician - Torquay, United Kingdom - Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust

Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust

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Torquay, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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WEEKLY TIMETABLE / JOB PLAN Total Programmed Activities: 10 PAs (averaged over 15 weeks)

Direct Clinical Care (DCC): 7.5 PAs per week Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs): 2.5 PAs per week (new consultants or 1.5PA a year after qualifying).

Overnight on call 1/14 attracts a 3% salary supplement.

Please note that the agreed level of duties in relation to SPAs, additional responsibilities and other duties will be reviewed on a regular basis as part of the Job Planning process.

Acute Work The philosophy of the department is that all acute consultant work is shared equally.

We aim to have full rotas of tier 1 and tier 2 doctors, meaning that consultants do not currently work night shifts.

However, when gaps do occur and locums cannot be found, they are shared equally among the consultant body.

The acute consultant team works 5 acute weeks in a 14 week cycle with the Consultant of the Week being responsible for inpatient care on the childrens ward and HDU.

Another consultant is responsible for SCBU, There are two paediatric acute consultants sharing cover each week working until 9pm supporting the team covering the SSPAU, taking phone calls from GPs and ED and providing back up as needed on the ward or SCBU.

Full time consultants work a 4 day week outside the acute weeks with a regular fixed day off.

We incorporate child protection into our acute weeks with strategy meetings and child protection medicals being done by the most appropriate team member according to clinical workload.

The acute weeks are paediatric ward consultant split over two weeks, Monday Thursday and Friday-Sunday (weekend on call), SCBU week - Monday-Friday and back up weekend on call during winter period in case of overwhelming workload.

Paediatric acute consultants PAC 1 covers long day on Tuesday and Thursday, PAC 2 covers long day on Monday and Friday and the Wednesday long day is incorporated as part of the Friday-Sunday COW week.

This means that there is always an acute team of 5 consultants covering each week, while allowing plenty of time to take annual and study leave in the 9 weeks not involved in acute cover.

Swapping of whole weeks of service to allow leave is possible.

Specialist Paediatric Clinics Children requiring specialist medical input are cared for with the support of lead local paediatricians and visiting tertiary specialists.

Regular local clinics are scheduled and provide opportunities for teaching and development of specialty interests.

All consultants contributing to the acute team help triage new referrals into appropriate outpatient clinic streams. Community Paediatrics Our Community clinics are in geographically based localities, including some clinics held at allocated Special Schools. Community consultants also contribute to the acute team activity and peer review processes. The community team have a rota to triage community referrals or provide advice where appropriate.

The SARC service is commissioned to an independent provider but a similar agreement for paediatric expertise is intermittently on offer and we will support signposting for applicants with specific interest.