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Doctor (GP) with special interest in Obesity
| Posting date: | 31 March 2025 |
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| Salary: | £90,000.00 to £100,000.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £90000.00 - £100000.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 April 2025 |
| Location: | Mansfield, NG21 0HJ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | E0343-25-0010abl737 |
Summary
Hybrid working arrangement, with the capacity to travel to Mansfield and work across Nottinghamshire. Job Purpose: This organisation is responsible for delivering a range of contracts relating to healthy lifestyle and behaviour change that include Tier 2 and Tier 3 weight management services, smoking cessation and a range of others that essentially aim to reduce health inequalities through community-driven services. We see patients from a range of backgrounds, clinical risks and complexities. This role supports effective and tailored weight management plans for children and young people, working with a highly experienced multi-disciplinary team to work towards lifelong healthy weight management. This provides an opportunity to develop expertise within a specialist area, and you will be supported with further training opportunities to better equip you for this role (eg SCOPE Certification specialist interest in weight management qualification). It also provides you with the opportunity to learn from our expert multidisciplinary team and practice leadership within a multi-disciplinary setting. The role would involve managing complex cases, contributing to Multi-Disciplinary Team meetings, training of allied health professionals where needed, and there may be an opportunity to contribute to research and development. This role primarily focuses on supporting the management of patients with morbid obesity. Duties and Responsibilities The role involves providing clinical oversight when needed for the Children and Young Peoples specialist weight-management service. It also includes: completing in-person medical reviews with support from a Paediatric Dietitian. advising on care coordination and case management where needed based on MDT discussions and risk assessments within a multidisciplinary team to arrive at the best approach to help patients manage their weight. managing complex cases and supporting decision-making around this when needed. Training in the role will be provided, and is a great opportunity, particularly for portfolio GPs, to develop in a specialist area. Standard Information Information Governance Employees of ABL Health must comply with the provisions of GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. The postholder must not; either during the course of their employment, or following termination of their employment, disclose any information relating to service users or employees, or of the lawful business practices, of the organisation. The postholder will be required, when and where appropriate to the role, to comply with the processing of requests under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 The postholder must comply with ABLs policies that protect the information assets of the organisation from unauthorised disclosure, modification, destruction, inappropriate access or use. 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 ABLs records management policies, and data quality processes and standards. Health & Safety Compliance with the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 the postholder 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. Safeguarding is Everyones Business ABL has a responsibility to ensure that all children / young people and adults are adequately safeguarded and protected. As a consequence, all ABLs employees, temporary staff and volunteers are required to adhere to ABLs safeguarding policies / procedures in addition to local and national safeguarding policies and to act upon any concerns in accordance with them. Smoke Free ABL is Smoke - Free. Smoking is not permitted on any of our premises or the surrounding land including car parking facilities. Training The postholder must attend any training that is identified as mandatory to their role. The range of duties and responsibilities outlined above are indicative only and are intended to give an overview of the range and type of duties that will be allocated. They are subject to modification in the light of changing service demands and the development requirements of the postholder. Equality, Diversity & Human Rights It is the responsibility of every person to act in ways to support equality and diversity and to respect human rights, working within the spirit and detail of legislation including the Equality Act 2010 and the Human Rights Act 1998. ABL is an equal opportunities employer and aims to challenge discrimination, promote equality and respect human rights.