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North East London NHS Foundation Trust: Community Consultant Paediatrician with interest in neurodisability

• Job Title: Consultant Paediatrician in NELFT Waltham Forest
• Contract: 10 Programmed Activities (10 PAs) Flexible working available
• Salary and band: Consultant (2003 contract)
• Base: Wood Street Specialist Children’s Service, Wood Street Health Centre, E17 3LA
• Closing Date: 28th June 2026

This post is a Community Consultant Paediatrician position with interest in neuro-disability in the Waltham Forest Specialist Children Service, based at Wood Street Health Centre, 6 Linford Road, Walthamstow, London, E17 3LA. It is a new post, created as part of Delivering Value agenda. The successful applicant will join our dynamic Community Paediatric team who work within a fully integrated targeted specialist children’s service. The postholder will join a team of 6 other consultants (6.4 WTE), 3 non-consultant colleagues and Paediatric and GP trainees providing integrated care for children seen in neuro-disability and neurodevelopment clinical pathways and within Safeguarding and Children in Care pathways.

Waltham Forest Community Paediatric team is part of a very large community paediatric service delivered across NELFT – covering outer North East London and Essex, composing more than 40 Community Paediatricians. We work collaboratively with our colleagues across the region on service development e.g. on integrated neurodevelopmental paediatric and CAMHS pathways, motor disorders and children in care clinical pathways. We highly value our academic colleagues who hold joint posts with UCL and Cambridge Autism Unit who support innovative practice and research in paediatrics and neurodevelopment. There are close links with the acute paediatric department at Whipps Cross University Hospital (Barts Health Trust) and Royal London Hospital and with Tertiary Service at Great Ormond Street Hospital.

The post holder will be a suitably qualified Consultant Paediatrician with at least 2 years’ experience in community Child health. The post holder will be a GMC registered clinician responsible for patients allocated to them and will assess, manage, plan, and deliver care.

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. They will have a commitment to collaborative working and actively supporting and liaising with other health and social care professionals and agencies.

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