Responsibilities
* Provide expert professional advice to patient, carers, and colleagues.
* Provided education and training to other staff and students.
* Ensure the maintenance of clinical excellence.
* Work as an independent consultant practitioner delivering a comprehensive service to patients, employing a high degree of personal and professional autonomy demonstrating highly advanced clinical expertise, competence, levels of judgement, discretion and decision making in all aspects of clinical care. Demonstrating a sound understanding of the issues related to the identification, assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of the patient group.
* Contribute to the clinical and strategic direction for the development of the service and will be a key member of the senior clinical and management team, providing senior leadership and influencing organisational initiatives related to the specialist area.
* Lead the development and implementation of a research strategy within the service, resulting in increased research activity and wider understanding of the service.
* Deliver clinical care for approx. 70% of their time but with approx. 30% of their time devoted to education/training, research and service evaluation, professional, personal, and service development, dependant upon the particular needs of the service and the job plan.
Service Locations
The role will be based across three locations: The Countess of Chester Hospital (providing 473 general and acute beds), Ellesmere Port Hospital (providing 60 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility), and Tarporley War Memorial Hospital (a base for community services serving the local rural population).
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