Gynaecological Oncology Subspecialist Trainee

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key areas of responsibilities

1 1)Provide high quality care to patients in Gynaecological Oncology.

The post holder must be medically qualified and maintain GMC specialist registration.

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.

2) Research, teaching and training

Where possible to collaborate with academic and clinical colleagues to enhance the Trusts translational research portfolio, at all times meeting the full requirements of research governance.

To provide high quality teaching to medical undergraduates and members of other health care professions as required by clinical director.

To act as educational supervisor and appraiser as delegated by the divisional director/clinical director to ensure external accreditation of training post.

3) Performance management

To work with medical, nursing and managerial colleagues to ensure high performance in the following areas:

Clinical efficiency e.g. LOS reductions, reducing cancelled operations and DNA rates.

Quality of outcomes e.g. infection control targets, reducing re-admission 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. day-case rates, waiting list activity and demand management.

4) 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 delegated by the divisional director or clinical director.

To participate in team objective setting as part of the annual job planning cycle.

To be responsible for the annual appraisal of all doctors in training, Trust doctors and non-consultant grades as delegated by the divisional director, clinical director or general manager.

5) Governance

To review clinical outcomes in designated area using external benchmarking data where appropriate, to identify and advise variances to the divisional director or clinical director.

To 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 divisional director/clinical director

To 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 divisional director/clinical director

To role model good practice for infection control to all members of the multidisciplinary team.

6) 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 divisional director/clinical director.

7) Leadership and team working

To demonstrate excellent leadership skills with regard to individual performance, clinical teams, the Trust and when participating in national initiatives.

To work collaboratively with all members of the multi-disciplinary team and Imperial College London as required.

To chair regular meetings for the specialties.

To resolve conflict and difficult situations through negotiation and discussion, involving appropriate parties.

To adhere to Trust/departmental guidelines on leave including reporting absence

Person Specification

Education/ qualifications

Essential

• On GMC's register with a Licence to Practice or eligible to apply for GMC registration and a Licence to Practice
• On GMC's Specialist Register or within six months of being admitted to the register by the date of the interviews or eligible for specialist registration
• Appropriate Royal College Membership

Desirable

• MD, PhD

Academic achievements including research/publications

Essential

• Evidence of achievement appropriate to appointment at consultant level at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Desirable

• Having already pubmed listed papers and conference contributions

Physical requirements

Essential

• Occupational health clearance for the role specified

Communication skills

Essential

• To have adequate Communication skills to be able to fulfil the Job to the highest standard

Clinical skills

Essential

• IT Skills and computer literacy

Language

Essential

• Able to speak and write English to the appropriate standard necessary to fulfil the job requirements

Audit

Essential

• Understanding of principles of clinical audit

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

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Address

Hammersmith

72 Du Cane Rd,

London

W12 0HS

Employer's website

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