Locum Consultant Rheumatologist | Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 09 May 2024 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £93,666 - £126,281 Per annum/pro rata |
| Oriau: | Part time |
| Dyddiad cau: | 08 June 2024 |
| Lleoliad: | MAIDSTONE, ME16 9QQ |
| Cwmni: | Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Contract |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 6298593/359-MSD-0934-RheumatologyA |
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This is an appointment to the Specialty Medical Directorate which provides clinical services at both Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital. There are opportunities to undertake outreach clinic in local community hospitals.Job share and less than full time applicants are welcome.The full-time post-holder will undertake five out-patient clinic sessions in Rheumatology across the sites.
The new consultant will participate in quality improvement and service development across the trust. Successful applicant will provide leadership and supervision to the multidisciplinary team, including registrars and nurse specialists. The rheumatology consultant team shares additional responsibilities including provision of advice and guidance for primary care colleagues, triaging of referrals and reviewing ward referrals. Development of sub-specialty interests and relevant non-clinical skills are strongly encouraged. Participation in General Medicine/Acute Medicine is optional.
Depending on the quality of applicants, the trust is prepared to appoint multiple candidates.
This position is for an initial 12 months contract, with opportunity for extension and/or conversion into a long term substantive position.
The Trust was formed in April 2000 by the merger of the Mid Kent Healthcare Trust and the Kent & Sussex Weald NHS Trust. It provides general hospital services to a population of approximately 460,000 in West Kent and North East Sussex, and some specialist services to a considerably larger population. Its major hospitals are the Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury and Maidstone Hospital. The Trust’s Headquarters are at Maidstone Hospital. The Trust’s Chairman is Mr David Highton, the Chief Executive is Mr Miles Scott and the Medical Director is Dr Peter Maskell. The Clinical Director for Specialist Medicine, which encompasses rheumatology, is Dr Simon Webster. Laurence Maiden is the chief of medicine and the Lead for rheumatology is Dr Matt Szeto.
The 2023 NHS staff survey has shown Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust to be one of the top ten acute trusts in the country - and the second best trust in the south east - to work for.
1. To provide a high standard of care to any patient for whom you have clinical responsibility. This will include any patients referred to you and cared for by you personally or by members of your team and, in addition, any patients of consultant colleagues when you are covering for leave.
2. To participate in clinical and service developments with the aim of ensuring a high standard of patient care across the Trust.
3. To work in close co-operation with other medical, professional and managerial colleagues, both within and outside the specialty, to provide high quality health care to the Trust’s patients, and to make a contribution to future thinking about the Trust’s strategic direction.
4. To participate fully in and share leadership of the clinical governance of the specialty covering its Trust-wide activities. To attend clinical governance half-days as detailed in the Trust’s Guide to Job Planning unless on agreed leave or while attending emergencies.
5. To participate actively in departmental audits, sharing co-ordination of audit activities within the department and implementation of change.
6. To take an active responsibility for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, training and supervision.
7. To assume responsibility, both personally and corporately with consultant colleagues, for the management of junior medical staff. You are expected to be involved in their professional development, both clinical and personal as per guidance from the Deanery.
8. To ensure that all doctors in training for whom you have supervisory responsibilities undertake delegated clinical tasks that are within their level of competence and knowledge.
9. To ensure at all times that you comply with the General Medical Council’s published guide “Good Medical Practice” including the Duties of a Doctor.
10. To take personal responsibility for risk management in your work and undertake to review practices and learn from mistakes.
11. To provide prospective cover, for advice and to deal with clinical emergencies, during colleagues’ annual/study leave and for other absences as far as is practicable and clinically safe.
12. To review In-patient Rheumatology referrals.
13. To ensure that you respond promptly and efficiently to all complaints related to any patient care you or your staff have been involved with, assisting the Trust’s corporate responsibility to reply to complaints within a specified time frame.
14. To ensure that you develop and maintain effective working relationships with those agencies concerned with the provision of health and social care services and those representing the interests of patients.
15. To undertake an annual appraisal leading to a personal development plan as outlined in the Trust Appraisal Policy. You must collect and maintain sufficient evidence to support the appraisal process and your GMC revalidation. The appraisal will inform the study leave and job planning processes.
16. To undertake an annual job plan review as outlined in the Trust Guide to Job Planning.
17. You are required to take reasonable care for the health and safety of yourself and others who may be affected by what you do while at work. You must adhere to Trust IRMER Regulations.
18. Specialty out-patient clinics as appropriate for the post-holder’s special interests.
19. Involvement in the development of clinical management protocols shared with the community and other consultant colleagues.
20. Participation on the management and future development of the rheumatology service.
This advert closes on Thursday 23 May 2024
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