Job summary
The Medical Appraisal Lead will
provide leadership across the trust regarding all aspects of medical
appraisal. The post holder will advise
the Medical Director, who is the Trusts responsible officer on compliance with
appraisal and revalidation. They will assist the Medical Director in supporting
doctors and dentists who required additional input into appraisal.
They will offer guidance and
assistance to the Medical Director when doctors and dentists are involved in
regulatory or disciplinary matters. They will be an active member of the
Medical and Dental Professional Governance Group meetings, contributing reports
as needed.
The Trust is in the relatively rare
position of employing or appointing Consultants, General Practitioners and
Dental Officers. The candidate will deal with these three groups of
professionals, but with the majority of time spent on Consultant appraisal. The
Trust does not expect candidates to be an expert in all elements of appraisal
for these groups but will expect an understanding of the different groups and
a willingness to learn about the different groups.
Main duties of the job
Managing
the activity of medical and dental appraisers to defined and quality assured standards,
including, but not exclusive to:
Promoting
excellence in medical and dental appraisal to deliver robust revalidation recommendations
and improvements in patient care through the
professional
development of doctors and dentists.
Recruiting
and selecting medical appraisers.
Assisting
the Clinical Directors for Dentistry in selecting dental appraisers
Organising
and/or delivering competency based new appraiser training.
Monitoring
performance of existing appraisers, ensuring that appraisals are conducted in
line with national, regional and local guidance, and that regular feedback is
provided.
Promoting
and supporting the continuing professional development (CPD) of medical and
dental appraisers.
Promoting
the benchmarking of professional judgements between medical and dental appraisers
through the provision of resources and opportunities to learn with and from others.
Supporting
and facilitating local medical and dental appraiser support group meetings, directly
or indirectly.
Answering
queries from appraisees and appraisers.
Supporting
new appraisers through a probationary period, such as the first three appraisals,
providing feedback on their performance.
About us
Flexible working will be considered for all roles.
Unfortunately, we do not hold a sponsor licence for working Visas.
At Bridgewater, our PEOPLE values shape how we deliver our
NHS services in your local community.
They help us deliver our mission to improve local health and
promote wellbeing in the communities we serve.
After all, values are about people and they were
created in partnership with our staff to reflect what they felt was important
to them
Here at Bridgewater our shared values flow through the organisation.
P- Person-centred-We are passionate about individual needs and
promote independence in the healthcare we provide..
E- Empowered- We empower our people and encourage new ideas to deliver and create improvements in community care.
O- Open and Honest -We behave in a way that develops relationships
based on trust, openness, honesty and respect.
P- Professional-We support our people, so everyone has the right
skills and training to deliver outstanding patient care.
L- Locally Lead -We are always learning about our communities and
show great pride in being a local provider of health and care.
E- Efficient -We use our resources wisely to provide
sustainable and value for money healthcare for our patients.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job purpose
The role of the Medical Appraisal Lead is to provide leadership within the trust regarding all aspects of medical appraisal. This includes providing guidance, support, educational and benchmarking opportunities and performance review to all medical appraisers. Working closely with the Business Manager to the Medical Director, the post-holder will promote, support and facilitate the implementation of national and Trust appraisal policies and ensure a robust quality assurance process is implemented for medical appraisals. They will ensure that each doctor aligned to Bridgewater for appraisal and revalidation has an allocated appraiser and that appraisals are completed in a timely manner.
The Medical Appraisal Lead will undertake appraisals with a defined number of doctors each year, as agreed with the Medical Director. They will set exemplary standards for the conduct of appraisals across the organisation and will support the Medical Director in delivering their roles and responsibilities towards appraisal and revalidation.
The Medical Appraisal Lead will also work with the Clinical Directors for Dentistry and the Medical Director, to ensure that dental appraisal can demonstrate positive adherence to the same robust quality assurance processes that medical appraisal aligns to. All dental appraisals will be undertaken within the dental service and the postholder will not be expected to undertaken any dental appraisals unless agree specifically with the Medical Director.
They will be an active member of the Medical and Dental Professional Governance Group meetings, contributing reports as needed. They will also be expected to participate in other aspects of medical governance and to engage with partners in accordance with organisational need and as directed by the Medical Director.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Managing the activity of medical and dental appraisers to defined and quality assured standards, including, but not exclusive to:
Promoting excellence in medical and dental appraisal to deliver robust revalidation recommendations and improvements in patient care through the
professional development of doctors and dentists.
Recruiting and selecting medical appraisers.
Assisting the Clinical Directors for Dentistry in selecting dental appraisers
Organising and/or delivering competency based new appraiser training.
Monitoring performance of existing appraisers, ensuring that appraisals are conducted in line with national, regional and local guidance, and that regular feedback is provided.
Promoting and supporting the continuing professional development (CPD) of medical and dental appraisers.
Promoting the benchmarking of professional judgements between medical and dental appraisers through the provision of resources and opportunities to learn with and from others.
Supporting and facilitating local medical and dental appraiser support group meetings, directly or indirectly.
Answering queries from appraisees and appraisers.
Supporting new appraisers through a probationary period, such as the first three appraisals, providing feedback on their performance.
- Supporting the role of the responsible officer (RO) by ensuring that the outputs of appraisal provide the required information to enable robust revalidation recommendations to be made.
- Ensuring appraisals are carried out in a timely manner in accordance with the Trusts Medical Appraisal Policy and the relevant national and local Dental appraisal requirements
- Producing and promoting appropriate evaluation, reports and summaries.
- Completing the Trusts annual job plan audit
- Advice and guidance for the Trusts Learning from Deaths reports
- Dealing with significant events and complaints, in conjunction with the Medical Director and Business Manager to the Medical Director Team.
- Keeping abreast of local and national developments in appraisal and revalidation.
- Promoting quality assured appraisal and revalidation process to doctors and
- appraisers.
- Representing the Trust at local, regional and national initiatives relating to
the development and implementation of appraisal.
- Networking with other Appraisal Leads and their teams to maintain
standards of delivery of appraisal across NHS England.
- Liaising with medical educators and their networks on issues relating to
continuing professional development (CPD) for doctors and dentists being appraised.
- Ensuring compliance with all confidentiality and governance requirements.
- Working at all times to promote equality and reduce inequalities, promote the
health, safety and well-being of all staff and champion the Trust values and the NHS Constitution.
The above job description is a summary of the main responsibilities of the post-holder, and not an exhaustive list of duties to be undertaken. The duties may be redefined in accordance with the demands of the service. Any redefinition will be subject to discussion between yourself and your manager and be within your level of competence.
Accountability and Review
The Medical and Dental Appraisal Lead is responsible to the Bridgewater Medical Director and ultimately to the Trust Board. An appropriate job plan will be agreed with the post-holder on an annual basis by the Medical Director or their deputy.
Standard Information to be included in all job specifications
Information Governance
Employees of the Trust must comply with the provisions of the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA).
- The postholder must not; either during the course of their employment, or following termination of their employment, disclose any personal information relating to service users or employees, or of the lawful business practices, of the organisation.
- The postholder must comply with Trust policies that protect the personal data of service users and employees from unauthorised disclosure, modification, destruction, inappropriate access or use and must pay due regard to the requirements of the NHS Confidentiality Code of Practice.
- The postholder will be responsible for maintaining the clinical and or corporate records that fall within the remit of this role to the standards in the Trust records management policies, and data quality processes and standards.
- Postholders with elevated access to IT systems are held accountable to the highest standards of use.
Health & Safety
Compliance with the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 the post-holder is required to fulfil a proactive role towards the management of risk in all of their actions. This entails the risk assessment of all situations, the taking of appropriate actions and reporting of all incidents, near misses and hazards, and a statutory duty of care for their own personal safety and that of others who may be affected by their acts or omissions.
Mental Capacity Act 2005
The Mental Capacity Act 2005 applies to all Trust staff. It is the responsibility of every person to ensure that they keep up to date with the Act and that the delivery of patient care/services is conducted in line with local and national policy and the MCA Code of Practice.
Safeguarding is Everyones Business
The Trust has a responsibility to ensure that all children / young people and adults are adequately safeguarded and protected. As a consequence, all Trust employees are required to adhere to national and local safeguarding policies / procedures and to act upon any concerns in accordance with them.
Infection Control
It is Trust policy to reduce the risk of Healthcare Associated Infection by having in place Infection Prevention and Control Policies. These policies must be adhered to by all staff to ensure patients are cared for in a clean environment and receive the highest standards of clinical care.
Smoke Free NHS
The NHS is Smoke - Free. Smoking is not permitted on any of our premises or the surrounding land including car parking facilities.
Training
The post-holder must attend any training that is identified as mandatory to their role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job purpose
The role of the Medical Appraisal Lead is to provide leadership within the trust regarding all aspects of medical appraisal. This includes providing guidance, support, educational and benchmarking opportunities and performance review to all medical appraisers. Working closely with the Business Manager to the Medical Director, the post-holder will promote, support and facilitate the implementation of national and Trust appraisal policies and ensure a robust quality assurance process is implemented for medical appraisals. They will ensure that each doctor aligned to Bridgewater for appraisal and revalidation has an allocated appraiser and that appraisals are completed in a timely manner.
The Medical Appraisal Lead will undertake appraisals with a defined number of doctors each year, as agreed with the Medical Director. They will set exemplary standards for the conduct of appraisals across the organisation and will support the Medical Director in delivering their roles and responsibilities towards appraisal and revalidation.
The Medical Appraisal Lead will also work with the Clinical Directors for Dentistry and the Medical Director, to ensure that dental appraisal can demonstrate positive adherence to the same robust quality assurance processes that medical appraisal aligns to. All dental appraisals will be undertaken within the dental service and the postholder will not be expected to undertaken any dental appraisals unless agree specifically with the Medical Director.
They will be an active member of the Medical and Dental Professional Governance Group meetings, contributing reports as needed. They will also be expected to participate in other aspects of medical governance and to engage with partners in accordance with organisational need and as directed by the Medical Director.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Managing the activity of medical and dental appraisers to defined and quality assured standards, including, but not exclusive to:
Promoting excellence in medical and dental appraisal to deliver robust revalidation recommendations and improvements in patient care through the
professional development of doctors and dentists.
Recruiting and selecting medical appraisers.
Assisting the Clinical Directors for Dentistry in selecting dental appraisers
Organising and/or delivering competency based new appraiser training.
Monitoring performance of existing appraisers, ensuring that appraisals are conducted in line with national, regional and local guidance, and that regular feedback is provided.
Promoting and supporting the continuing professional development (CPD) of medical and dental appraisers.
Promoting the benchmarking of professional judgements between medical and dental appraisers through the provision of resources and opportunities to learn with and from others.
Supporting and facilitating local medical and dental appraiser support group meetings, directly or indirectly.
Answering queries from appraisees and appraisers.
Supporting new appraisers through a probationary period, such as the first three appraisals, providing feedback on their performance.
- Supporting the role of the responsible officer (RO) by ensuring that the outputs of appraisal provide the required information to enable robust revalidation recommendations to be made.
- Ensuring appraisals are carried out in a timely manner in accordance with the Trusts Medical Appraisal Policy and the relevant national and local Dental appraisal requirements
- Producing and promoting appropriate evaluation, reports and summaries.
- Completing the Trusts annual job plan audit
- Advice and guidance for the Trusts Learning from Deaths reports
- Dealing with significant events and complaints, in conjunction with the Medical Director and Business Manager to the Medical Director Team.
- Keeping abreast of local and national developments in appraisal and revalidation.
- Promoting quality assured appraisal and revalidation process to doctors and
- appraisers.
- Representing the Trust at local, regional and national initiatives relating to
the development and implementation of appraisal.
- Networking with other Appraisal Leads and their teams to maintain
standards of delivery of appraisal across NHS England.
- Liaising with medical educators and their networks on issues relating to
continuing professional development (CPD) for doctors and dentists being appraised.
- Ensuring compliance with all confidentiality and governance requirements.
- Working at all times to promote equality and reduce inequalities, promote the
health, safety and well-being of all staff and champion the Trust values and the NHS Constitution.
The above job description is a summary of the main responsibilities of the post-holder, and not an exhaustive list of duties to be undertaken. The duties may be redefined in accordance with the demands of the service. Any redefinition will be subject to discussion between yourself and your manager and be within your level of competence.
Accountability and Review
The Medical and Dental Appraisal Lead is responsible to the Bridgewater Medical Director and ultimately to the Trust Board. An appropriate job plan will be agreed with the post-holder on an annual basis by the Medical Director or their deputy.
Standard Information to be included in all job specifications
Information Governance
Employees of the Trust must comply with the provisions of the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA).
- The postholder must not; either during the course of their employment, or following termination of their employment, disclose any personal information relating to service users or employees, or of the lawful business practices, of the organisation.
- The postholder must comply with Trust policies that protect the personal data of service users and employees from unauthorised disclosure, modification, destruction, inappropriate access or use and must pay due regard to the requirements of the NHS Confidentiality Code of Practice.
- The postholder will be responsible for maintaining the clinical and or corporate records that fall within the remit of this role to the standards in the Trust records management policies, and data quality processes and standards.
- Postholders with elevated access to IT systems are held accountable to the highest standards of use.
Health & Safety
Compliance with the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 the post-holder is required to fulfil a proactive role towards the management of risk in all of their actions. This entails the risk assessment of all situations, the taking of appropriate actions and reporting of all incidents, near misses and hazards, and a statutory duty of care for their own personal safety and that of others who may be affected by their acts or omissions.
Mental Capacity Act 2005
The Mental Capacity Act 2005 applies to all Trust staff. It is the responsibility of every person to ensure that they keep up to date with the Act and that the delivery of patient care/services is conducted in line with local and national policy and the MCA Code of Practice.
Safeguarding is Everyones Business
The Trust has a responsibility to ensure that all children / young people and adults are adequately safeguarded and protected. As a consequence, all Trust employees are required to adhere to national and local safeguarding policies / procedures and to act upon any concerns in accordance with them.
Infection Control
It is Trust policy to reduce the risk of Healthcare Associated Infection by having in place Infection Prevention and Control Policies. These policies must be adhered to by all staff to ensure patients are cared for in a clean environment and receive the highest standards of clinical care.
Smoke Free NHS
The NHS is Smoke - Free. Smoking is not permitted on any of our premises or the surrounding land including car parking facilities.
Training
The post-holder must attend any training that is identified as mandatory to their role.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Trained medical / dental appraiser
- Experience of implementing governance processes to ensure high quality service delivery
- Experience of leading change
Desirable
- Experience as a medical /dental appraiser
- Experience of using PremIT electronic appraisal toolkit
- Experience of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
- Experience of performance
Skills & Aptitude
Essential
- Ability to present relevant information in a concise format
- Ability to engage effectively with individuals at all levels
- Good presentation skills
- Excellent motivational, negotiating and influencing skills
Desirable
- Excellent analytical and strategic skills
Qualifications
Essential
- Full GMC / GDC registration
- In the case of GMC registration a licence to practice
- Appropriate College Membership/Fellowship
Desirable
- Additional postgraduate qualification
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and understanding of medical appraisal processes, including the Trusts Medical Appraisal Policy
-
- Understanding of the NHS, its infrastructure, partner healthcare organisations and priorities
- In-depth knowledge of GMC /GDC guidance e.g. Good Medical Practice
- Evidence of CPD, including appraisal updates
Desirable
- Knowledge of revalidation process, including information required by the Responsible Officer to make a revalidation recommendation to the GMC
- Knowledge of performance management processes
- Knowledge of dental appraisal processes
Personal Characteristics
Essential
- Committed to the vision and values of the Trust
- Able to inspire and lead by example
- Commitment to the continuous improvement of safety, quality and efficiency of processes
- Personal credibility, with the ability to quickly gain the confidence of others, including clinicians, managers and other staff
- Exemplary personal standards of conduct and behaviour
Job Specific Criteria
Essential
- Ability to travel independently across the Trust
- Ability to work flexibly to meet the requirements of the role
- Do you have the right to stay and work in the UK without sponsorship (share-codes will be checked if applicable), please state this on your application form
Desirable
- If you are related to a director or have a relationship with a director or employee of an appointing organisation, please state the relationship in your application form.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Trained medical / dental appraiser
- Experience of implementing governance processes to ensure high quality service delivery
- Experience of leading change
Desirable
- Experience as a medical /dental appraiser
- Experience of using PremIT electronic appraisal toolkit
- Experience of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
- Experience of performance
Skills & Aptitude
Essential
- Ability to present relevant information in a concise format
- Ability to engage effectively with individuals at all levels
- Good presentation skills
- Excellent motivational, negotiating and influencing skills
Desirable
- Excellent analytical and strategic skills
Qualifications
Essential
- Full GMC / GDC registration
- In the case of GMC registration a licence to practice
- Appropriate College Membership/Fellowship
Desirable
- Additional postgraduate qualification
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and understanding of medical appraisal processes, including the Trusts Medical Appraisal Policy
-
- Understanding of the NHS, its infrastructure, partner healthcare organisations and priorities
- In-depth knowledge of GMC /GDC guidance e.g. Good Medical Practice
- Evidence of CPD, including appraisal updates
Desirable
- Knowledge of revalidation process, including information required by the Responsible Officer to make a revalidation recommendation to the GMC
- Knowledge of performance management processes
- Knowledge of dental appraisal processes
Personal Characteristics
Essential
- Committed to the vision and values of the Trust
- Able to inspire and lead by example
- Commitment to the continuous improvement of safety, quality and efficiency of processes
- Personal credibility, with the ability to quickly gain the confidence of others, including clinicians, managers and other staff
- Exemplary personal standards of conduct and behaviour
Job Specific Criteria
Essential
- Ability to travel independently across the Trust
- Ability to work flexibly to meet the requirements of the role
- Do you have the right to stay and work in the UK without sponsorship (share-codes will be checked if applicable), please state this on your application form
Desirable
- If you are related to a director or have a relationship with a director or employee of an appointing organisation, please state the relationship in your application form.
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
