Consultant Community Paediatrician

Closing date: 08 November 2026

Job summary
Birmingham Community Healthcare (BCHC) NHS Foundation Trust provides a wide range of high quality, accessible and responsive community and specialist healthcare services across the diverse and culturally rich City of Birmingham and the wider West Midlands region.

The Children and Families Division brings together all Universal and Specialist Community Services for children and provides a co-ordinated approach for child health care. We maintain good links with the Clinical Commissioning Groups, the Local Authority and voluntary agencies providing care for children.

Main duties of the job
These consultant posts will join a team of 21 Consultant Paediatricians leading the Community Child Health Services in Birmingham. The posts will be based, one in East of the city, one in South and one in West.

The posts encompass work in the fields of neurodevelopment and neurodisability in locality based clinics and Special School clinics, children in care and child protection, with an on call out of hours commitment for the Sudden Unexpected Death in Childhood service.

A CCT in Community Paediatrics or Paediatric Neurodisability is essential and a higher qualification (MRCPCH or equivalent) is required.

Applications from Less Than Full Time candidates are welcome.

About us
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Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities.

Job responsibilities

• Neurodevelopmental Paediatrics: specialist medical assessment, investigation and clinical management of children with neurodevelopmental problems through designated clinics in the Child Development Centre.
• Child Protection: take part in the daytime non CSA Child Protection rota, both directly and in a supervisory role.
• Rapid Response: part of the Rapid Response Team for Sudden Unexpected Deaths (SUDIC), providing home visits and subsequent medical input. On-call frequency approximately 1:9, 24 hour service including weekends and bank holidays.
• Special Schools: provide Consultant input to special schools as required, with school based clinics generally run fortnightly in term time.
• Locality Provision: provide specialist community paediatric services within South/East/West of Birmingham, secondary referral clinics and a consultation service for primary care teams and local schools.
• Special Educational Needs: provide medical advice to the Local Education Department under the Children and Families Act 2014.
• Teaching: provide supervision and guidance for junior colleagues and medical students, and support to Health Visitors, School Nurses and other Agency staff.
• Management: provide clinical leadership to the community paediatric team with existing Consultant Community Paediatricians, and work collaboratively in service planning.

Person specification
Essential qualifications

• MRCP, MRCPCH by examination or equivalent
• Full GMC registration
• On the GMC specialist register or within 6 months of CCT

Essential experience

• Usually at least 2 years General Professional Training in Paediatrics
• Usually 5 years Higher Specialist Training, including 3 years in Community Paediatrics
• Experience in Child Protection/Safeguarding to at least Level 3 competencies

Essential skills

• Willing to work unsupervised and make decisions
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to manage time effectively
• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team
• BLS skills appropriate for a Community Paediatrician

Desirable

• Higher degree e.g. MSc, MD or other higher degree
• Completed fellowship programme
• DCH, DCCH, MBA or other relevant diplomas
• Previous experience in CSA and SUDIC Rapid Response

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Salary: £113,565 to £150,569 a year per annum
Contract: Fixed term, 12 months
Working pattern: Full-time

For questions about the job, contact: Divisional Medical Director, Dr Neal McCathie, anita.lallie@nhs.net, 01214666320

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.