Consultant General Paediatrician with specialist interest in Diabetes

at  Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

General Paediatric duties include 8 ward weeks/year with double Consultant of The Week cover for the Paediatric Wards. There is double Consultant of The Week cover for the Paediatric Wards on week days. One Consultant is in charge of the Children’s Clinical Decision Area (including 9 x 24h short stay beds) and provides clinical support to the Step-Up Ambulatory Care Nurses looking after children at home. The other Consultant is in charge of the Children’s and Young People Unit (Ward 30) and conducts the daily hand overs and ward rounds.
General Paediatric duties include 8 ward weeks/year with double Consultant of The Week cover for the Paediatric Wards. There is double Consultant of The Week cover for the Paediatric Wards on week days.
All children seen in CCDA and admitted to the Ward during the week will be officially under the care of the Ward Consultant unless already under the care of another Consultant.
Duties will also include participation in the on call rota (all existing full time consultant posts have 2.13 PA/week for on-call duties which includes an allocation for weekend ward rounds) and a contribution to delivering the safeguarding service for non-sexual abuse assessments. (There are separate arrangements for assessing safeguarding sexual abuse which are not part of this post).
Our People Charter outlines the behaviours we can expect from one another and what you can expect from Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust:
We value people
We are one team
We care
We’re keen to meet people who share these values and are passionate about delivering the highest quality of care to our patients.
General Paediatric duties include 8 ward weeks/year with double Consultant of The Week cover for the Paediatric Wards. There is double Consultant of The Week cover for the Paediatric Wards on week days. .
The Paediatric team have recently adopted a working pattern to provide resident evening cover of the wards until 22:00 throughout the week Monday to Friday and second consultant ward round support at the weekend 08:45-1400.
Duties will also include participation in the on call rota (all existing full time consultant posts have 2.13 PA/week for on-call duties which includes an allocation for weekend ward rounds) and a contribution to delivering the safeguarding service for non-sexual abuse assessments. (There are separate arrangements for assessing safeguarding sexual abuse which are not part of this post)

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