Guardian of Safe Working Hours
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Main area Guardian of Safe Working Hours Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant Contract 3 years (Fixed term 3 years) Hours Flexible working - 2 hours per week PA) Job ref -MED-1- Site Kingsway Town Derby Closing //5 :
Want to make a real difference and have a truly rewarding career? Join 'Team Derbyshire Healthcare' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of ‘making a positive difference in people's lives’.
We’ve been rated ‘good’ overall by the CQC, with some outstanding services. The CQC commented at our most recent inspection on how our colleagues “treated patients with compassion and kindness” and “felt positive and proud about working for the trust.
We are passionate about making equality, diversity and inclusion part of our DNA. We take pride in our “People First Culture” which creates a workplace where everyone feels a genuine sense of belonging, difference is celebrated, and people are comfortable to bring their whole selves to work. We value the richness that comes from having colleagues that are fully representative of the local community. We welcome people who identify as Black, Asian or from a Minority Ethnic background, protected characteristics, and with all backgrounds and experiences.
Job overview
The guardian is a senior person, independent of the management structure within the organisation for whom the doctor in training is working and/or the organisation by whom the doctor in training is employed. The guardian is responsible for protecting the safeguards outlined in the 6 TCS for doctors and dentists in training. The guardian will ensure that issues of compliance with safe working hours are addressed, as they arise, with the doctor and/or employer, as appropriate; and will provide assurance to the trust board or equivalent body that doctor’s working hours aresafe.
Main duties of the job
Act as the champion of safe working hours for doctors in approved training programmes and ensure that action is taken to ensure that the working hours within the trust aresafe.
Provide assurance to the trust board that doctors are safely rostered and are working hours that are safe and in compliance with theTCS.
Record and monitor compliance with the restrictions on working hours stipulated in the TCS, through receipt and review of all exception reports in respect of safe workinghours.
More details in the attached job description.
Working for our organisation
Join 'Team Derbyshire Healthcare' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of ‘making a positive difference in people's lives’.
CQC rated us as 'GOOD’ overall, commenting on how our colleagues “treated patients with compassion and kindness” and “felt positive and proud about working for the trust.”
Benefits include:
1. Commitment to flexible working where this is possible
2. days annual leave/year plus bank holidays, increasing to days after 5 years & days after years’ service
3. Yearly appraisal and commitment to ongoing training
4. Generous NHS pension scheme
5. Good maternity, paternity and adoption benefits
6. Health service discounts and online benefits
7. Incremental pay progression
8. Free confidential employee assistance programme /7
9. Access to our LGBT+ network, BAME Network and Christian Network
10. Health and wellbeing opportunities
11. Structured learning and development opportunities
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The guardian will:
Act as the champion of safe working hours for doctors in approved training programmes and ensure that action is taken to ensure that the working hours within the trust aresafe.
Provide assurance to the trust board that doctors are safely rostered and are working hours that are safe and in compliance with theTCS.
Record and monitor compliance with the restrictions on working hours stipulated in the TCS, through receipt and review of all exception reports in respect of safe workinghours.
Ensure that exception reports regarding training hours, as set out I the work schedule, are sent to the DME or equivalentofficer.
Work in collaboration with the DME and the LNC to ensure that the identified issues within exception reports concerning both working hours and training hours are properly addressed by the employer and/or hostorganisation.
Escalate issues in relation to working hours raised in exception reports to the hospital management board for decisions where these have not been addressed at a locallevel.
Require a work schedule review to be undertaken where there are regular or persistent breaches in safe working hours which have not beenaddressed.
Directly receive exception reports where there are immediate or serious risks to safety and ensure that the organisation at a local level has addressed the concerns that led to the exception report. Where this is not addressed within the timescales identified in Schedule 5, and the guardian deems it appropriate, the guardian will raise this with the executive of the employing and/or host organisation.
Review the reports received when a manager does not authorize payment for hours worked beyond those described in the work schedule in order to secure patient safety and recommend action whereappropriate.
Have the authority to intervene in any instance where the guardian feels the safety of patients and/ordoctorsiscompromised,orthatissuesarenotbeingresolvedsatisfactorily.
Distribute monies received as a consequence of financial penalties to improve the training and working experience of all doctors. Examples may include and should not be limitedto:
·ITsystems
·Facilitating studyleave
·Restfacilities
·Handoversystems
·Expertise in rotadesign
·Service improvementprojects
·Examination/course/professionalsupport
·Role redesignpilots
·Staffengagement
·Libraryfacilities
·Corporate journalsubscriptions.
Prepare, not less than quarterly, a report for the trust board which summarizes all exception reports, work schedule reviews and rota gaps, and provides assurance on compliance with safe working hours by both the employer and doctors in approved trainingprogrammes.
Prepare, no less than annually, a plan for improvement on rota gaps and submit the plan in a statement in the Trust’s Quality Account, which will also need to be signed off by the Trust’s ChiefExecutive.
Submit details of the disbursement of fines for inclusion in the organization’s annual report, including clear detail of where fines have beenspent.
To chair the resident doctors’ forum (or fora) to include relevant representatives from the LNC, including the chair, and other elected resident doctor members, to providequalityassuranceofsafeworkingpracticeand scrutinisethedistributionoffines.
Oversee all diversity and equality issues associated with ensuring safe working practices. This will include liaison with the Director of Medical Education to ensure that a member of the educationalfacultyintheTrustisdesignatedasachampionforflexibletraining.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
12. Qualified medical professional and membership of the GMC Specialist Register
Experience
Essential criteria
13. Minimum consultant level or equivalent senior medical level
Skills
Essential criteria
14. Knowledge and understanding of TCS of doctors in training
15. Knowledge and understanding of Working Time Regulations and safe working patterns and rotas for doctors in training
16. Facilitation, interpersonal, mediation and negotiation skills in order to promote medical and dental education and challenge practice within the LETB
17. Ability to manage budget
18. Proven ability in leadership to achieve goals, manage change and deal with constraints
19. Ability to act as an effective champion for safe working
Desirable criteria
20. Knowledge of recent developments in medical education and of key issues
Further details / informal visits contact
NameDr Abbas RamjiJob titleDirector of Medical EducationEmail>
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