General Medical Consultant

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Summary

To undertake clinical duties as required for clinical specialism

Maintain a high standard of clinical expertise and care for the patient

Provide clinical leadership for all general medicine

Support trainees and non-medical staff within the service

Undertake job planning, CPD and appraisal as required

Assist service managers, general managers / professional leads with business planning/ complaints/datix investigations and relevant service meetings as required

Support and enable relevant governance processes within own dept.

Work collaboratively with other services and directorates as required

Key Responsibilities

To provide clinical expertise in general medicine. This may be delivered through patient clinics including supporting diagnosis through diagnostic access, maintaining own clinical workload in line with performance targets, supporting patient outcomes and diagnosis.

To foster a culture of multi-professional engagement in the improvement of care across integrated pathways for a specific condition or patient group. This may include supporting surgical teams with general medical queries for both in-patient and out patients.

To work collaboratively across the trust and with other directorates including provision of POPS clinics, CDC pathways and support pre-assessment clinics.

To support education opportunities for resident doctors/ dental trainees/ nursing/ AHP & HCS staff regarding aspects of general medicine such as frailty, anticoagulation, diabetes, implanted devices and risks around surgery.

To promote programmes of quality assurance (such as clinical audit), which support individual professional development and also inform commissioner and provider organisations.

To understand, communicate and support the implementation of clinical policy relating to networks (including NICE Quality Standards and Outcome Strategies).

To promote a culture of research within the service ensuring that research is fostered and involved staff are enabled in Good Clinical Practice

Take an active role in the formulation, implementation and monitoring of the Care Groups Business Planning. This may include assisting with discussions regarding service plans and developments with internal and external agencies.

To ensure that clinical care is central to the delivery of all trust and NHS England priorities. To work with patients to best manage their conditions and enable patient choice.

To create and/ or maintain relevant governance structures that support widespread multidisciplinary involvement including doctors, nurses, allied health professionals and clinical scientists.

To act as a champion for patients and their interests and involve the public and patients in the policy development and decision-making of networks.

Employ effective communication, negotiation and influencing skills to enable stakeholder relationships to deliver objectives over the duration of projects/programmes.

Represent the trust in sensitive and political situations, delivering difficult messages where required to high-level audiences.

To ensure all public and patient contact is of highest professional standard. 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.

Promoting equality and reducing inequalities

To uphold organisational policies and principles on the promotion of equality.

To create an inclusive working environment where diversity is valued, everyone can contribute, and everyday action ensure we meet our duty to uphold and promote equality.

Partnership and improvement

To effectively engage with other clinical networks where relevant synergies exist around the achievement of outcome ambitions and integrated care pathways.

To engage and develop collaborations for quality improvement across whole health communities, for the realisation of equitable access to quality care and the achievement of outcome ambitions for patients.

To work with other structures, including Providers, Community, Academic Institutions, Health Innovation Networks, Charities, Voluntary & Independent Sector organisations aligning innovation, education, informatics and quality improvement.

To work with operational and executive teams ensuring alignment of policy and service transformation for patients.

To use insight in the use of evidence of analytics to inform quality and clinical improvement.

To promote the systematic application of the quality framework tools such as NICE Quality Standards, Quality Accounts etc.

Secretary Support and Office Space

Secretarial support and a fully equipped office with all necessary IT equipment will be provided to the postholder.

Developing an excellent organisation

To provide leadership and management to the defined clinical area within the Trust Clinical Network.

To support the organisations ways of working, model the values and champion the NHS Constitution.

To ensure compliance with all confidentiality and governance requirements within the networks.

To adhere to relevant Codes of Conduct.

Person Specification

oRelevant professional body registration

Essential

• oExperience of working across other NHS organisations
• oExperience of providing clinical advice to, and liaising with, surgeons, other consultants, nursing staff, AHPs / HCS etc and staff at all levels, including working with Executive Directors and General Managers
• oKnowledge of NHS practices, policies and procedures and governance
• oAbility to collaborate constructively with all key stakeholders (internal and external) and to create the conditions for successful partnership working

Desirable

• oExperience of overseeing Trust-wide initiatives; leading successful change management; service redesign processes; supporting cost improvement programmes.
• oAcute medical experience

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Trust

Holtye Road East Grinstead

West Sussex

RH19 3DZ

Employer's website

https://www.qvh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)