Job responsibilities Clinical Responsibilities The post holder will be expected to work autonomously and provide expertise in a specialised area, whether delivering care in a subspecialty or in a generalist service and be able to manage the full range of presentations, complexity, and uncertainty of cases in their specific area of practice. The appointee will have overall responsibility for patient care and be able to establish a diagnosis, define a care plan, treat and discharge a patient without reference to a more senior clinician. The appointee will also be expected to deliver appropriate teaching, training, supervision, mentoring and appraisal of other members of staff in the Department, as well as play a part in management and in the development of projects as agreed with the Departments other senior staff. There is no out of hours on-call and the appointee will participate in the daytime second on- call shared equally amongst all of the consultant and specialist doctor body. The Programmed Activities will be agreed with the Service Delivery Unit (SDU) Director and will form the basis of the postholders job plan. The job plans are not fixed and can be further negotiated by the successful candidate, provided the needs of the service are met. The Trust expects a Specialist doctor to spend typically 90% of their time on clinical work and up to 10% continuing medical education and professional development. However, the proportion may vary from time to time for those taking on management, research or academic roles by agreement with the Trust. The post holder will be required to practice with the professional values and behaviours expected of all doctors as set out by the Trust and in GMC Good Medical Practice, as well as adhere to professional requirements, participating in annual appraisal, job planning and reviews of performance and progression. A consultant or specialist colleague from another department will be allocated to the successful candidate to act as a mentor.