Locum Consultant in Sexual Health & HIV

Job responsibilities

1. To provide a high quality service for patients attending Kings College Hospital with sexual health and contraceptive needs +/- HIV care. This includes all aspects of prevention, testing and treatment as well as relevant management duties for the proper functioning of the department.2. To share responsibility for covering colleagues periods of annual leave, study leave and short-term sickness.3. To provide clinical and educational supervision of junior medical staff, particularly Specialist Trainees and Foundation Doctors, as a shared responsibility with other consultant colleagues. 4. To support the educational development and training of nurses and non-clinical grades within the department5. To be responsible for carrying out teaching and examination duties as requiredand contributing to continuing medical education and clinical governance initiatives.6. To contribute to departmental research interests in accordance with the TrustsR&D framework and the departments research strategy.7. To contribute to clinical governance, risk management and the departmentalaudit programme.8. To take an active role in the delivery of the departments strategy and to lead on service developments within the department that increase access and improve patient experience9. To take an active role in the formulation, implementation and monitoring of the Divisions business plan. This may include assisting with discussions regardingservice plans and developments with both internal and external agencies.10. To conduct all activities within the contracted level of service and operating plan or Sexual Health and HIV services. 11. To exercise professional and clinical leadership for all staff working in the specialty. This will include developing and delivering projects focused towards these ends and ensuring that the momentum of post qualification professional education and other appropriate training is maintained. 12. To work in conjunction with clinical and professional colleagues to ensure that the productivity of staff within the department is increased and their job satisfaction is enhanced. This may include involvement in the appraisal process for junior colleagues.13. To undertake management duties as agreed with the Clinical Leads for Sexual Health and HIV or Sexual & Reproductive Health.14. To be aware of, and comply with, all Trust infection prevention and control policies, to include hand hygiene, personal hygiene, environmental and foodhygiene. To undertake annual training/updates in infection prevention andcontrol.15. To prepare for and undertake the protective interventions that you are responsible for in a manner that is consistent with evidence based practice and maintaining patient safety.16. To have the general duty of care for the health, safety and wellbeing of yourself,work colleagues, visitors and patients within the hospital in addition to any specific risk management or clinical governance accountabilities associated with this post.17. To observe the rules, policies, procedures and standards of Kings CollegeHospital NHS Foundation Trust together with all relevant statutory and professional obligations.18. To observe and maintain strict confidentiality of personal information relating topatients and staff, and to undertake the Trust mandatory consent, confidentiality and data protection training.19. To be responsible, with management support, for your own personal development and to actively contribute to the development of colleagues, as well as maintaining an up to date CPD log with the relevant college.20. To hold an 'nhs.net' email account, which will be the Trust's formal route for emailcommunication. You are therefore required to check this regularly and to deal with such communication promptly.This job description is intended as a guide to the general scope of duties and is notintended to be definitive or restrictive. It is expected that some of the duties will change over time and this description will be subject to review in consultation with the post holder. You are appointed to the service of Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust as a whole and may be required to work at any of the KCH sites as determined by the duties of the post or as reasonably directed
2. SPECIFIC DUTIES OF THE POST 1. To undertake outpatient Sexual Health, HIV and general contraceptive clinics.2. To undertake long acting reversible contraception clinics (where a candidate does not have letters of competence in IUD insertion or implant techniques, will need to demonstrate a commitment to achieving these skills).3. To undertake a specialist clinic relevant to special interest of the candidate.4. To undertake general HIV clinics including HIV emergency clinic and offsite HIV clinics.5. To undertake clinical sessions as Senior Support consultant at CSHC ensuring smooth running of the clinic and providing expert advice, support and training 6. To provide consultant support and advice for Adult and Child safeguarding for the Sexual Health and HIV service. 7. To support the Clinical Lead for Sexual health to ensure sexual health data reporting for surveillance, contract monitoring and service evaluation is robust and accurate.8. To support the Clinical Lead ensuring the Sexual Health service develops to maximise efficiency and increase activity and income.9. To act as a local research lead for sexual health.10. To provide supervision for Speciality Trainees undertaking service improvement projects within the department of Sexual Health and HIV11. To support recruitment to departmental research studies within Sexual Health &HIV.

Higher Education & Qualifications

Essential

• Eligible for full registration with the GMC at time of appointment
• MRCP DFSRH DipGUM DipHIV
• On GMC Specialist Register with Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in Genitourinary Medicine (or to obtain within 6 months of interview date) or Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registratio

Desirable

• Higher degree (eg.MD, PhD)
• Letters of competence for IUD
• Letter of competence for SDI
• FSRH Faculty Registered Trainer

Training and Experience

Essential

• Experience of working in an integrated sexual health service managing both GUM and contraception cases; experience of outpatient-based HIV care
• Experience in management of young person's services and child & adult safeguarding procedures.
• Experience in all aspects of contraception
• Experience of providing services to vulnerable groups and managing safeguarding concerns of adults and children.
• Familiar with current legislative framework and guidance regarding safeguarding children
• Experience of providing care to multi-ethnic and multi-cultural communities

Desirable

• Experience of running a complex contraception service /complex GUM/HIV service
• Interest and experience in genital dermatology
• Ability to undertake genital biopsies

Administration & Management

Essential

• Experience in day-to-day organisation and management of Sexual Health and HIV services
• Experience of managing, completing and evaluating service improvement projects
• Experience of service development, redesign and implementation
• Evidence of ability to make decisions at consultant level to manage complex clinical problems.
• Familiar with current structure of the NHS. Conversant with recent initiatives and changes to commissioning and policy environment for Sexual Health and HIV

Desirable

• Formal management training e.g. management courses, fellowship

Clinical Governance

Essential

• Thorough understanding of principles of clinical governance and medical audit. Must have undertaken and completed audit projects.

Desirable

• Publications in peer reviewed journals

Research and Publications

Essential

• Experience of poster and oral research presentation at national and/or international meetings

Desirable

• Experience in clinical trial management; Track record of recruiting patients into research studies.

Teaching

Essential

• Experience of undergraduate and post graduate teaching and assessment

Desirable

• Educational Supervisors Accreditation
• Experience of developing and delivering training courses

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).