Job summary
The Medical Directors Office is searching for a dedicated Medical Revalidation Administrator to work as part of a small team, providing efficient, effective coordination, support and guidance on medical appraisal, revalidation and professional registration issues for doctors within the Trust.The Medical Revalidation Administrator will working closely with the medical revalidation team, medical appraisers and approximately 900 doctors across the Trust, who are connected to the Trust's designated body list.
Main duties of the job
- Maintain robust administrative systems and processes to ensure efficient and effective operation of the medical appraisal and revalidation system across the Trust.
- Ensuring the Trust's designated body list is kept up to date on GMC Connect and addressing any queries that may arise.
- Issue pre appraisal reminders including downloading and attaching the correct supporting information.
- Manage process of Revalidation review by Associate Medical Director and Responsible Officer before submitting a recommendation to the General Medical Council.
- Responsible for the maintenance of online systems in connection with medical appraisal and revalidation.
- Provide a dedicated point of contact for routine and non routine enquiries and supply advice and guidance to medical staff on medical appraisal, revalidation and L2P in a timely and sensitive manner.
- Provide 1:1 welcome meetings with new doctors and support meetings for any doctor that needs help preparing for appraisal and revalidation.
- To be key in encouraging timely completion of appraisals and active engagement in the appraisal process to ensure medical appraisal rates are increased.
About us
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Wexham Park near Slough, Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley and Heatherwood in Ascot.
Our threecore values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other,Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for main responsibilities of this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for main responsibilities of this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to A level or equivalent experience
Desirable
- CPP or equivalent
- ECDL or equivalent IT qualification
Skills
Essential
- Effective communications skills, especially influencing skills, assertiveness, and diplomacy with all levels of managers and staff
- Good working knowledge of Outlook, Word, Excel, and SharePoint
- Excellent organisational skills
- Ability to prioritise own workload and work on own initiative to meet deadlines
- Ability to closely follow procedures
- Self-motivated and proactive approach
- Able to deal with people in difficult and delicate situations, and to respond to people with respect and sensitivity
- Able to demonstrate awareness and appreciation of data protection and confidentiality requirements
- Able to work with minimal supervision
Desirable
- Ability to suggest where improvements can be made to processes and implement them (within grade)
Experience
Essential
- At least 2 years relevant work experience in an administrative role
- Experience of working in a service led and customer focussed environment
- Experience of organising own workload with competing deadlines
- Experience of dealing with a large volume of work with interruptions
- Knowledge of data protection issues to ensure Trust compliance
Desirable
- Experience or understanding of working in the NHS
- An understanding of medical workforce structures
- Experience or an understanding of the medical appraisal and revalidation system and processes
- Experience of providing advice/ guidance to end users on systems/ processes
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to A level or equivalent experience
Desirable
- CPP or equivalent
- ECDL or equivalent IT qualification
Skills
Essential
- Effective communications skills, especially influencing skills, assertiveness, and diplomacy with all levels of managers and staff
- Good working knowledge of Outlook, Word, Excel, and SharePoint
- Excellent organisational skills
- Ability to prioritise own workload and work on own initiative to meet deadlines
- Ability to closely follow procedures
- Self-motivated and proactive approach
- Able to deal with people in difficult and delicate situations, and to respond to people with respect and sensitivity
- Able to demonstrate awareness and appreciation of data protection and confidentiality requirements
- Able to work with minimal supervision
Desirable
- Ability to suggest where improvements can be made to processes and implement them (within grade)
Experience
Essential
- At least 2 years relevant work experience in an administrative role
- Experience of working in a service led and customer focussed environment
- Experience of organising own workload with competing deadlines
- Experience of dealing with a large volume of work with interruptions
- Knowledge of data protection issues to ensure Trust compliance
Desirable
- Experience or understanding of working in the NHS
- An understanding of medical workforce structures
- Experience or an understanding of the medical appraisal and revalidation system and processes
- Experience of providing advice/ guidance to end users on systems/ processes
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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
