Job responsibilities
Provide High Quality Care to Patients
The post holder must be medically qualified and maintain GMC specialist registration and hold a licence to practice.
To develop and maintain the competencies required to carry out the duties required of the post.
To ensure prompt attendance at agreed direct clinical care Programmed Activities.To ensure patients are involved in decisions about their care and to respond to their views.Performance Management
To work with medical, nursing and managerial colleagues to ensure high performance in the following areas:Clinical efficiency e.g. timeliness indicators, clinical indicators and the development of ambulatory pathways.
Quality of outcomes e.g. infection control targets, reducing re-attendance rates.
Financial management e.g. identification, implementation and achievement of cost improvement programmes and participating in efforts to ensure services are provided cost effectively e.g. managing locum agency spend, monitoring and managing the drug budget to target, ensuringaccuracy of clinical data for the team.
Operational efficiency e.g. demand management. Medical Staff Management.
To work with colleagues to ensure junior doctors hours are compliant in line with EWTD and New Deal.
To ensure that adequate systems and procedures are in place to control and monitor leave for junior medical staff and to ensure that there is appropriate cover within the clinical areas, including on-call commitments.
To participate in the recruitment of junior medical staff as and when required.
To participate in team objective setting as part of the annual job planning cycle.
To be engaged in the process of annual appraisal and revalidation of all doctors in training, Trust doctors, Clinical Fellows and non-consultant grades as delegated by the Clinical Director/Divisional Manager.
Governance
To review clinical outcomes in designated area using external benchmarking data where appropriate, to identify and advise variances to the Clinical Director.
Participate in clinical audit, incident reporting and analysis and to ensure resulting actions are implemented.
To work closely with the Directorate, Patient and Public Involvement panels in relation to clinical and services developments as delegated by the Clinical Director.
Participate in ensuring NICE requirements are reviewed and implemented and monitored in the speciality areas.
To ensure clinical guidelines and protocols are adhered to by junior medical staff and updated on a regular basis.
To keep fully informed about best practice in the speciality areas and ensure implications for practice changes are discussed with the Clinical Director.To role model good practice for infection control to all members of the multidisciplinary team.
Strategy and Business PlanningTo participate in the business planning and objective setting process for the directorate and Trust where appropriate.To represent the Trust at appropriate clinical networks/other external clinical meetings, as delegated by the Clinical Director.Leadership and Team Working.To demonstrate excellent leadership skills with regard to individual performance, clinical teams, the Trust and when participating in national or local initiatives.To work collaboratively with all members of the multi-disciplinary team and Partners as required.To chair regular meetings for the specialties.To resolve conflict and difficult situations through negotiation and discussion, involving appropriate parties.Adhere to Trust/departmental guidelines on leave including reporting absence.
Research Governance
The post holder will be expected to comply with all Moorfields policies pertaining to research governance. This will include ensuring that all research activities of the post holder are approved by the Trust and an appropriate ethics committee before commencement. This will also include meeting all the Trust research audit, monitoring and training requirements.Research, Teaching & Audit.
Moorfields is an important research institution and each individual will be expected to contribute to the research and development, teaching and training within the service. As a result the Trust has a policy concerning all intellectual property that may apply to you. The policy can be found in theMedical Staff handbook or copies can be obtained from the HR Department.
Professional Development
The Trust provides opportunities for CME and CPD. The timetable will be arranged to allow the candidate to take advantage of these opportunities.There is provision for at least 2 weeks paid study leave with expenses if appropriate each year. This is monitored by the study leave committee.Revalidation requirements.
All doctors are responsible to maintain a portfolio of their career over the last 5 years in order to satisfy GMC Revalidation criteria. If successful, you will be required to bring along your supporting information portfolio including recent appraisals documents when joining the Trust.
Doctors holding joint and/or various fixed term appointments throughout their appraisal year are also required to demonstrate evidence of an exit report and supporting information from the different appointments they hold throughout their appraisal year.
This information must be brought with them when starting a new appointment within The Trust. It is recommended that doctors collect this information before leaving their previous employers.
