Job responsibilities
Specific Duties/ Responsibilities:
Be a
highly visible clinical leader ensuring staff receive timely and regular
communications and are involved and engaged in the delivery of clinical
services.
Lead and develop the clinical team, managing the
clinicians to maximise team and individual clinician performance
. Demonstrate leadership and motivation within
the Clinic and promote team working across all disciplines to ensure the
continuous development of high quality, innovative care
. To work collaboratively and oversee the
third-party Consultants who satellite into the clinic or provide anaesthesia
services.
Ensure that Care and its mission, programs,
products and services are consistently presented in a strong, positive image to
relevant stakeholders by conducting all external relationships effectively and
to the benefit of Care.
Maintain
and develop organisational culture, values and reputation in its markets and
with all staff, customers, suppliers, partners and regulatory/official bodies.
Support a
multi-skilled, multi-disciplined and diverse workforce to work as a cohesive
operational group delivering first class treatments to patients.
Attend and contribute to the Clinics operating
management meetings and Clinic meetings. Work collaboratively with other
Medical Directors and the Group Medical Director to ensure that Care and
national objectives are met.
Attend and
contribute to the regular organisational meetings with other Medical Directors,
Laboratory Managers, governance groups and speciality groups on an alternate
meeting basis with the Clinical Director.
Report to the Group Medical Director UK and
Executive Management team on all aspects of patient care, clinical performance
and medical workforce issues.
Work
closely with and support the Clinic Director to support a robust clinical
governance and quality framework.
Support the Clinic Director with commercial
decisions and changes as and when required Driving Excellent Clinical Quality:
Work collaboratively with the Clinic Director,
Group Medical Director and the Care CG & Q team to deliver the agreed
governance and quality systems.
Ensure that appropriate audit tools are
implemented and findings and concerns are acted upon where appropriate.
Work with the local team to ensure the annual
clinical audit programmes is undertaken and reported to the corporate team
according to timescale.
Implement within the Clinic all Care policies,
protocols and pathways as agreed at corporate governance and speciality
meetings to ensure Care best practice is adhered to.
Leadership and Development of Medical Workforce:
Specifically, the Medical Director will be responsible for:
Providing a service as the primary liaison to the
medical staff at the Clinic.
Overseeing the recruitment of good quality,
competent clinical staff and ensuring that there are robust systems in place
for their competency assessment and induction. Undertake probationary
assessments of all new medical appointees to the Clinic.
Ensuring there is Continuing Professional
Development for all medical staff. They will support staff to provide the
necessary documentation for appraisal and revalidation which is compliant with
the guidelines of the GMC and the relevant Royal College.
Support all medical staff employed within the
Clinic to undertake enhanced appraisals consistent with GMC guidance annually
to enable re-licensing and re-certification.
Supporting systems of peer review and reflective
practice locally for medical staff. Providing appropriate support to medical
staff within the Clinic, including the identification of opportunities for
supervision and training.
Undertaking effective Care performance reviews of
all Clinic medical staff on an annual basis to ensure best use of their skills.
Ensuring that all annual leave/ CPD leave for
medical staff is managed effectively and complies with Care policies.
Ensuring that weekly medical rotas are in place
and provide adequate cover of service for the Clinic. For the management of
medical disciplinary issues in liaison with Responsible Officer, Deputy Group
Medical Director (North) and People Director.
Clinical Duties: The post holder will be expected
to undertake clinical duties as a member of the medical team of the Clinic. The
allocation of time to undertake clinical duties will be agreed by the Clinic
Director and the Group Medical Director.
The post holder will:
Consult and assess patients and plan and
undertake patient treatments.
Undertake the assessment of emergency admissions,
arranging appropriate onward referral where appropriate.
Provide clinical support to the nursing staff,
who give emergency telephone advice, when on call. Correspond/liaise with
general practitioners/referrers/other specialists regarding patients.
Correspond and communicate with patients
professionally (e.g. by phone, email, video-conferencing) Ensure the consenting
of all patients is undertaken prior to treatment.
Work to ensure there is effective communication
with other team members. Attend clinical and team meetings as appropriate.
Work in theatre, carrying out egg collection,
embryo transfers and other fertility-related procedures. Carry out the
supervision and training of other staff from all disciplines.
Complete clinical notes and documentation
(including financial documentation) in accordance with Care protocols and
policies.
Participate in audit, clinical risk assessment
and clinical governance in accordance with Care protocols and policies.
Participate and contribute in the regular review
and updating of clinical procedures, protocols and patient documentation. Be
involved in promotion and marketing of the Clinic and its services.
Liaise with the marketing team to agree the
marketing plan for the Clinic and to work with the media on advertising
campaigns, news stories, etc.
Follow Adult Safeguarding policy and
requirements.
Present at Patient Information Evenings and other
educational events for patients. Providing clinical cover at other Care clinics
as and when needed.
General Requirements:
The post holder will be required Maintain a GMC
licence to practise and maintain registration on the GMC Specialist Register,
complying with Continuing Professional Development requirements and
revalidation with the GMC.
Actively participate in Cares performance
management processes and competency assessment processes, in addition to annual
appraisal in line with GMC requirements as outlined above.
Comply with the GMC Good Medical Practice
guidance and Care clinical protocols and guidelines.
Comply with the Human Fertilisation and
Embryology Authoritys Code of Practice, the Care Standards Act 2008, the Care
Standards Regulations 2010, General Data Protection Regulation 2016 and the
Data Protection Act 2018, with special reference to patient confidentiality.
Comply with the Health and Safety policies with
particular reference to procedures to be followed in the event of a fire and to
report all accidents and untoward incidents to the Health and Safety officer.
Undertake mandatory training as and when
required. Comply with all Care policies and procedures