Job summary
Specialist Grade Physician/Clinical Lead in Myalgic Encepha-lomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia (ME/CFS+FMS)
University College London Hospitals NHS Trust (UCLH) is offering a rare and exciting opportunity for a part-time (approximately 7.5 PA) Specialist SAS Physician to lead, develop and improve the RLHIM ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia service and provide clinical outpatient services.
Established over thirty years ago, this service provides person-centred, multidisciplinary, outpatient-based care according to national and international guidelines for these conditions.
The team consists of Speciality physicians, occupational therapists, physiotherapist, psychologists, dietician, liaison psychiatrist and acupuncture practitioners. We receive referrals from both primary and secondary care services throughout the South-East of England, and work closely with other UCLH services including Pain, Rheumatology and Infectious Diseases.
Applications are invited from outstanding candidates with substantial clinical experience in managing these and/or similar chronic physical health conditions, leading a multidisciplinary team, and a strong commitment to service evaluation, improvement and development.
Main duties of the job
Suitable applicants should meet the following criteria:
- Full registration and a Licence to Practice with the General Medical Council;
- A minimum of 12 years' medical work (either continuous period or in aggregate) since obtaining a primary medical qualification of which a minimum of six years should have been in a relevant specialty in the Specialty Doctor and/or closed SAS grades. Equivalent years' experience in a relevant specialty from other medical grades including from overseas will also be accepted.
- Shall meet the criteria set out in the Specialist grade generic capabilities framework (set out in the Person Specification of the job description).
Please also see https://www.nhsemployers.org/system/files/2022-06/Specialist-terms-and-conditions-June-2022.pdf
About us
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.
We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:
- University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
- National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
- Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
- University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
- Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
- University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
- The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
- University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street
We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women's health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.
At UCLH, we have a real 'One Team' ethos, and our values - safety, kindness, teamwork and improving, are central to the way we work. This is supported by our staff, who voted us as the #1 NHS Acute Trust to work for in the whole of England.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.
Person Specification
Professional Qualifications
Essential
- Full UK registration and a licence to practice with the General Medical Council NB: Non UK trained doctors must be on the GMC register by date of interview.
- Evidence of being up to date and fit to practice safely, and aware of own training needs
Desirable
- An appropriate higher degree, eg an MD, PhD or equivalent
- MRCP(UK), MRCGP or an equivalent qualification.
Previous Experience
Essential
- Shall have completed a minimum of 12 years medical work (either in continuous period or in aggre-gate) since obtaining a primary medical qualification of which a minimum of 6 years should have been in a relevant Specialty in the Specialty Doctor and/or closed SAS grades. Equivalent years' experience in a relevant specialty from other medical grades includ-ing from overseas will also be accepted.
- Ability to offer and be accountable for full and independent expert diagnostic opinion.
- Substantial experience with rele-vant chronic medical conditions
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary health team
Desirable
- Experience of leading a multidisciplinary health team
Leadership and team working
Essential
- Awareness of their leadership responsibilities as a clinician and demonstrates appropriate leader-ship behaviour; managing situations that are unfamiliar, complex or unpredictable and seeking to build collaboration with, and confidence in, others.
- Demonstrates understanding of a range of leadership principles, approaches and techniques so can adapt leadership behaviours to improve engagement and out-comes - appreciates own leader-ship style and its impact on others.
- Develops effective relationships across teams and contributes to work and success of these teams - promotes and participates in both multidisciplinary and interprofessional team working.
- Critically reflects on decision-making processes and explains those decisions to others in an honest and transparent way.
- Demonstrates ability to challenge others, escalating concerns when necessary.
- Develops practice in response to changing population health need, engaging in horizon scanning for future developments.
Professional values and behaviours, skills and knowledge
Essential
- Practises with the professional values and behaviours expected of all doctors as set out in GMC Good Medical Practice and the Generic Professional Capabilities Framework.
- Demonstrates the underpinning subject-specific competences ie, knowledge, skills and behaviours relevant to the role setting and scope.
- Clinically evaluates and manages a patient, formulating a prioritised differential diagnosis, initiating an appropriate management plan, involving multidisciplinary care, and reviewing and adjusting this depending on outcome.
- Manages the difficulties of dealing with complexity and uncertainty in the care of patients: employing expertise and clinical decision-making skills of a senior and inde-pendent/ autonomous practitioner.
- Critically reflects on own competence, understands own limits, and seeks help when required.
- Communicates effectively and is able to share decision-making with patients, relatives and carers; treats patients as individuals, promoting a person-centred approach to their care, including self-management.
- Respects patients' dignity, ensures confidentiality and appropriate communication where potentially difficult or where barriers exist, eg, using interpreters and making adjustments for patients with communication difficulties.
- Demonstrates key generic clinical skills around the areas of consent, ensuring humane interventions, prescribing medicines safely and using medical devices safely.
- Adheres to professional requirements, participating in annual appraisal, job planning and reviews of performance and progression.
- Awareness of legal responsibilities relevant to the role, such as around mental capacity and dep-rivation of liberty; data protection; equality and diversity.
- Applies basic principles of public health; including population health, promoting health and wellbeing, work, nutrition, exercise, vaccination and illness prevention, as relevant to specialty.
- Demonstrates breadth of awareness of issues relating to ME/CFS/FMS
Patient safety and Quality Improvement
Essential
- Takes prompt action where there is an issue with the safety or quality of patient care, raises and escalates concerns, through clinical governance systems, where necessary.
- Applies basic human factors principles and practice at individual, team, organisation and system levels.
- Collaborates with multidisciplinary and interprofessional teams to manage risk and issues across organisations and settings, with respect for and recognition of the roles of other health professionals.
- Advocates for, and contributes to, organisational learning.
- Seeks feedback and involvement from individuals, families, carers, communities and colleagues in safety and quality service improvements reviews.
- Leads new practice and service redesign in response to feedback, evaluation and need, promoting best practice.
- Evaluates and audits own and others' clinical practice and acts on the findings.
- Reflects on personal behaviour and practice, responding to learning opportunities.
- Implements quality improvement methods and repeats quality improvement cycles to refine practice; designing projects and evaluating their impact.
- Critically appraises and synthesises the outcomes of audit, inquiries, critical incidents or complaints and implements appropriate changes.
Safeguarding vulnerable groups
Essential
- Recognises and takes responsibility for safeguarding children, young people and adults, using appropriate systems for identify-ing, sharing information, recording and raising concerns, obtaining advice and taking action
- Applies appropriate equality and diversity legislation, including disability discrimination requirements, in the context of patient care.
Management & IT
Essential
- Computer literacy, including use of email, Internet and voice dictation systems
- Experience of working closely and effectively with hospital management
Person Specification
Professional Qualifications
Essential
- Full UK registration and a licence to practice with the General Medical Council NB: Non UK trained doctors must be on the GMC register by date of interview.
- Evidence of being up to date and fit to practice safely, and aware of own training needs
Desirable
- An appropriate higher degree, eg an MD, PhD or equivalent
- MRCP(UK), MRCGP or an equivalent qualification.
Previous Experience
Essential
- Shall have completed a minimum of 12 years medical work (either in continuous period or in aggre-gate) since obtaining a primary medical qualification of which a minimum of 6 years should have been in a relevant Specialty in the Specialty Doctor and/or closed SAS grades. Equivalent years' experience in a relevant specialty from other medical grades includ-ing from overseas will also be accepted.
- Ability to offer and be accountable for full and independent expert diagnostic opinion.
- Substantial experience with rele-vant chronic medical conditions
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary health team
Desirable
- Experience of leading a multidisciplinary health team
Leadership and team working
Essential
- Awareness of their leadership responsibilities as a clinician and demonstrates appropriate leader-ship behaviour; managing situations that are unfamiliar, complex or unpredictable and seeking to build collaboration with, and confidence in, others.
- Demonstrates understanding of a range of leadership principles, approaches and techniques so can adapt leadership behaviours to improve engagement and out-comes - appreciates own leader-ship style and its impact on others.
- Develops effective relationships across teams and contributes to work and success of these teams - promotes and participates in both multidisciplinary and interprofessional team working.
- Critically reflects on decision-making processes and explains those decisions to others in an honest and transparent way.
- Demonstrates ability to challenge others, escalating concerns when necessary.
- Develops practice in response to changing population health need, engaging in horizon scanning for future developments.
Professional values and behaviours, skills and knowledge
Essential
- Practises with the professional values and behaviours expected of all doctors as set out in GMC Good Medical Practice and the Generic Professional Capabilities Framework.
- Demonstrates the underpinning subject-specific competences ie, knowledge, skills and behaviours relevant to the role setting and scope.
- Clinically evaluates and manages a patient, formulating a prioritised differential diagnosis, initiating an appropriate management plan, involving multidisciplinary care, and reviewing and adjusting this depending on outcome.
- Manages the difficulties of dealing with complexity and uncertainty in the care of patients: employing expertise and clinical decision-making skills of a senior and inde-pendent/ autonomous practitioner.
- Critically reflects on own competence, understands own limits, and seeks help when required.
- Communicates effectively and is able to share decision-making with patients, relatives and carers; treats patients as individuals, promoting a person-centred approach to their care, including self-management.
- Respects patients' dignity, ensures confidentiality and appropriate communication where potentially difficult or where barriers exist, eg, using interpreters and making adjustments for patients with communication difficulties.
- Demonstrates key generic clinical skills around the areas of consent, ensuring humane interventions, prescribing medicines safely and using medical devices safely.
- Adheres to professional requirements, participating in annual appraisal, job planning and reviews of performance and progression.
- Awareness of legal responsibilities relevant to the role, such as around mental capacity and dep-rivation of liberty; data protection; equality and diversity.
- Applies basic principles of public health; including population health, promoting health and wellbeing, work, nutrition, exercise, vaccination and illness prevention, as relevant to specialty.
- Demonstrates breadth of awareness of issues relating to ME/CFS/FMS
Patient safety and Quality Improvement
Essential
- Takes prompt action where there is an issue with the safety or quality of patient care, raises and escalates concerns, through clinical governance systems, where necessary.
- Applies basic human factors principles and practice at individual, team, organisation and system levels.
- Collaborates with multidisciplinary and interprofessional teams to manage risk and issues across organisations and settings, with respect for and recognition of the roles of other health professionals.
- Advocates for, and contributes to, organisational learning.
- Seeks feedback and involvement from individuals, families, carers, communities and colleagues in safety and quality service improvements reviews.
- Leads new practice and service redesign in response to feedback, evaluation and need, promoting best practice.
- Evaluates and audits own and others' clinical practice and acts on the findings.
- Reflects on personal behaviour and practice, responding to learning opportunities.
- Implements quality improvement methods and repeats quality improvement cycles to refine practice; designing projects and evaluating their impact.
- Critically appraises and synthesises the outcomes of audit, inquiries, critical incidents or complaints and implements appropriate changes.
Safeguarding vulnerable groups
Essential
- Recognises and takes responsibility for safeguarding children, young people and adults, using appropriate systems for identify-ing, sharing information, recording and raising concerns, obtaining advice and taking action
- Applies appropriate equality and diversity legislation, including disability discrimination requirements, in the context of patient care.
Management & IT
Essential
- Computer literacy, including use of email, Internet and voice dictation systems
- Experience of working closely and effectively with hospital management
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
60 Great Ormond Street
London
WC1N 3HR
Employer's website
https://www.uclh.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)
