Consultant in Developmental Paediatrics & DMO for SEND

A Vacancy at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

This is an exciting opportunity for a consultant to join a well-established neurodevelopmental and neurodisability team a St George’s University Hospital NHS FoundationTrust and meet rising demand in most of our specialist teams within Neurodevelopmental Paediatrics and the Looked After Children (LAC) Services. The successful candidate will work across and deliver care for the LAC, Developmental Paediatrics, ADHD and ASD sub-specialties.This post includes the designated role (DMO) for Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)

This post is part of the NDND (Neuro-Developmental & Neuro-Disability) care group within the Children’s Directorate. Within the NDND care group the following services are included: Developmental Paediatrics, Educational Paediatrics, ASD, ADHD, Looked after Children, Neurodisability and District Epilepsy. There are 8 consultants and associated staff. The team is integrated with the other paediatric services in St George’s hospital, which is unique and provides excellent links with other specialities.

A thriving Foundation Trust at the heart of an integrated healthcare system. One that delivers improved patient care at a community, hospital and specialist setting, supported by a unique and nationally recognised programme of research, education and employee engagement.

We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the Trust, being Excellent, Kind, Responsible & Respectful, and behave in a way that reflects these.

St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and expects that all staff will share in this commitment. The Trust is clear that all staff have a responsibility to be aware of children and adult safeguarding policies and procedures and that each member of staff, clinical and non-clinical, will attend child or adult safeguarding training that is provided at an appropriate level to suit their role. The Trust has the additional expectation that all staff will be able to identify concerns and know what action to take.

Clinical responsibilities of this post:

1. Clinical Role

Provide clinics for the assessment and management of children with suspected neurodevelopmental delay or disorders including developmental clinics, ADHD, ASD and SEND clinics

2. Managerial Responsibilities

Supervise junior staff

3. CPD, Audit & Clinical Governance

Participate in CPD activity

Support on-going audit within the care group and children’s directorate

Observe the clinical governance requirements of the post

4. DMO Role

Provide strategic leadership as DMO, including triaging incoming referrals and playing an active role in delivering and improving the service for children with special educational needs

· Liaison with DCO

· Key link for DCO into Paediatric services at St George’s to include escalation of clinical queries.

· Working with Paediatric colleagues to support understanding of developments across Local Area in terms of SEND including understanding of the wider Local Offer ( this has particular relevance in terms of quality of advice )

· Work with DCO on quality assurance processes for medical advice as part of Education, Health and Care needs assessment and embed learning within the Paediatric services. This will include at least quarterly audits.

· Attend Wandsworth SEND partnership board ( quarterly )

· Participate in bimonthly SWL DCO DMO network( bi monthly )

· Review effectiveness of pathways with St George’s for CYP with SEND.

This advert closes on Thursday 9 Oct 2025

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