Job overview
This is an appointment for a new Consultant in Emergency Medicine. The Trust provides a clinical service at both Tunbridge Wells Hospital and at Maidstone Hospital. The new Consultant will have responsibilities for participating in and developing a Trust-wide service. The post will involve sessions at both hospitals.
JD PENDING COLLEGE APPROVAL
Main duties of the job
The successful applicants will be expected to be involved in the day to day management of the departments, ensuring their safe and effective running and supporting the junior staff in the capacity of Educational and/or Clinical Supervisor.
On-call, the post holder will need to reside within ten miles or thirty minutes of one of the hospitals.
Working for our organisation
MTW is a large acute hospital trust in the south-east of England. We provide a full range of general hospital services and some aspects of specialist complex care to around 760,000 people living in the south of West Kent and the north of East Sussex. We have a team of over 8,000 full and part-time staff. We also provide specialist cancer services to around 1.8 million people across Kent and East Sussex via the Kent Oncology Centre. 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 Dr Annette Doherty, the Chief Executive is Mr Miles Scott and the Chief Medical Officer is Dr Sara Mumford. Clinical services are organised into nine Directorates. The Chief of Service for Emergency Services is Dr Simon Webster and the Clinical Director for Emergency Medicine is Dr Christy Lowe.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. To provide a high standard of care to patients 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.
2. To participate in clinical and other service activities and 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.
4. To participate fully in and share leadership of the clinical governance of the specialty covering its Trust-wide activities. To attend and participate in clinical governance work and meetings as detailed in the Trust’s Guide to Job Planning.
5. To participate actively in the Directorate Audit programme, 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 HEE and HEKSS.
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 practice and learn from mistakes.
11. To share in the ‘on-call’ rota, and to provide prospective cover for colleagues during annual and study leave and other absences as far as is practicable and clinically safe.
12. 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 responsibility to reply to complaints within a specified time frame.
13. To ensure that you develop and maintain effective working relations with those agencies concerned with the provision of health and social care services and those representing the interests of patients.
14. 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.
15. To undertake an annual job plan review as outlined in the Trust Guide to Job Planning.
16. 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.
17. Involvement in the development of clinical management protocols shared with the community and other consultant colleagues.
18. Participation on the management and future development of the Emergency Medicine service.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
19. MB BS (or equivalent)
20. Registered with GMC
21. FRCEM
22. ATLS, ALS, APLS
23. On GMC Specialist Register or within 6 months of CCT date •
Desirable criteria
24. Distinctions, scholarships, prizes
25. Other degrees, e.g. BSc, MSc, MD
26. At least three years in Higher Training in Emergency Medicine in the UK
27. Instructor status in ATLS, APLS and/or ALS
Audit
Essential criteria
28. •Understand the principles of audit
Desirable criteria
29. •Evidence of participation in audit projects
Research
Essential criteria
30. •An understanding of general principles, scientific method and interpretation of literature
Desirable criteria
31. •Evidence of personal research projects and their presentation
32. •Publications in peer-reviewed journals