Job responsibilities
Detailed duties and 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, ensuring accuracy of clinical data for the team.
Operational efficiency e.g. performance targets, demand management.
Medical Staff Management
To work with colleagues to ensure resident 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 Service 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 Service 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 Service Director.
To role model good practice for infection control to all members of the multidisciplinary team.
Strategy and Business Planning
To 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.
The postholder will be expected to take part in teaching, research and audit, and service meetings, keeping abreast with the constant change that the A&E Department requires to ensure that it runs efficiently.
Training, Quality Improvement and Research (into Educational Methods and Clinical Ophthalmology) is very much encouraged and there may be an opportunity to undertake a distance learning degree in Medical Education. Consultant staff undertaking / holding higher degrees in medical education are particularly welcome. The PGCert level higher degree in medical education (or higher as applicable) is part funded by the department.
The postholder is expected to undertake teaching duties in the management of patients (including those attending the Accident and Emergency Department) with regard to all adult learners, junior and non-training grade medical staff, orthoptic and optometry students and other professional and technical staff in training. They are expected to work in close association with fellow Consultants, Specialist Registrars, Fellows, and with members of various departments within the Institute of Ophthalmology, UCL, St Georges Medical School, QMUL, Imperial, and QMUL Barts and the London. They are expected to liaise closely with members of the nursing staff in the management of patients (including those attending the Accident and Emergency Department); and to co-operate with other professional and technical staff, including Technicians, Orthoptists and Optometrists. Consultants are expected to take an active part in Audit meetings.
OTHER DUTIES
The consultant has a continuing responsibility for the care of patients in their charge and for the proper functioning of the service, allowing for all appropriate delegation to and training for their staff.
They are responsible for the day-to-day management of the clinic and must ensure that in/outpatient services are covered during their planned absences. Participation in episodes of shared care requires the consultant to provide advice and support to clinicians in other services with regard to patients who may have a combination of ocular problems.
All members of the consultant staff and honorary consultants are expected to contribute to the Medical Advisory Committee and to serve on other Hospital committees as required unless compelling reasons prevent this. All members of the consultant staff will be expected to participate in audit meetings.
All members of consultant staff are expected to participate in clinical governance and audit, to meet annual training requirements, and to satisfy the annual requirement for continuous professional development set out by the Royal College of Ophthalmologists. All consultant staff will participate in the Trusts appraisal scheme.
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 the Medical 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.
The opportunity will be available for the post holder to enrol in a part-time medical education degree course. The postholder will be encouraged and financially supported to work towards a medical education higher degree or accreditation programme.
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.
