Job Introduction
We are seeking to appoint a Permanent Consultant in Genitourinary Medicine (GUM) to work at both sites, Scunthorpe and Grimsby.
This post has 5 Programmed Activities – 4 for direct patient care (DCC) and 1 Supporting Professional Activity (SPA) for service development and leadership. An indicative 5 PA week over 2 days.
As a GUM Consultant, your days will be rewarding and diverse. You will join a great department of talented and passionate individuals who you will work closely with, including a GUM Consultant at our Scunthorpe site and a Nurse Consultant at each location, to provide a prevention-focused, integrated sexual health service that meets the needs of the local population.
Our vision is to empower all people living in Northern Lincolnshire to enjoy positive sexual health and wellbeing. Integrated Sexual Health Services provide a range of interventions that enable people to experience healthy sexual relationships.
We require a prevention focused integrated sexual health service that meets the needs of the local population within the boroughs and minimises the need for residents to travel outside of the area; a service that will continually improve education, prevention, testing, treatment, and support services in response to a changing environment of sexual health and relationship needs.
The service will improve sexual health by delivering a range of interventions across the life course; with a focused direction of travel towards prevention, building resilience and self-esteem, along with consistently promoting healthy choices. The service will provide open and easy access, cost-effective, high quality provision for contraception and prevention, diagnosis, and management of sexually transmitted infections (including HIV), according to evidence-based protocols.
Main Responsibility
We have built organisation-wide committees in many specialist fields. You’ll have the option to join your clinical specialism, networking with professionals from across the country. We get together regularly, auditing and sharing standard methodology for innovation and service re-design. You’ll be a part of the pool of subject matter experts bringing together clinical and operational leads. You will be a part of quality improvements, research and development activity. Here we recognise and celebrate clinical excellence and dedication.
- Ensure that clinical services meet and can evidence compliance with relevant clinical standards (legislative, regulatory, and professional best practice requirements)
- Ensure that service-specific clinical policies are adhered to
- Attendance at HCRG Care Group Clinical Governance Meeting
- Participate in training programmes and mandatory training and CPD
- Share learning and discuss clinical issues
- Deal with clinical patient complaints
- Communicate patient/client feedback
- Ensure that the service teams have access to advice and support from relevant experts and teams (internal and external)
- Actively contribute to HCRG Care Groups Sexual Health strategy and improvement initiatives
- Undertake new and follow up consultations including a full assessment of the medical condition, the patient’s concerns and expectations. The post holder will enter full details of history, examination findings, diagnosis and treatment plan in the patient electronic record.
- Follow care pathways for common conditions of Genitourinary Medicine and Sexual Health as recommended by National Guidelines.
- Prescribe treatment only for sexual health problems
- Offer only those treatments or surgical procedures, which are within the scope of the contract between HCRG Care Group and the commissioners
- Ensure that patient or carer’s are informed fully about the condition, answer any questions, supply written information if available and involve them in decisions about the treatment
- Order appropriate investigations, making sure that pathology request are completed correctly
- Take responsibility for seeing and taking action on results as part of a rota with other GUM Staff
- Participate in Audit and evaluation
- Participate in teaching and training, particularly skill transfer to primary care staff
- Undergo annual appraisal and participate in clinical governance
- Undertake all required Postgraduate training and development to maintain skills and revalidation.
For full Responsibilities please see attached Job Description.
The Ideal Candidate
Essentials
- Full Registration with GMC
- Entry on the General Medical Council ( GMC) Specialist Register via one of the following;
- A0 Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in Genitourinary Medicine or within 6 months of CCT date
- B0 Certificate of Eligibility Specialist Registration (CESR)
- MRCP,MRCOG or equivalent
- Diplomas in HIV, GUM and DFSRH
- Demonstrates clarity in written and spoken communication
- Good interpersonal skills, courteous to patients and staff at all times
- Enthusiastic team player
- Open and reflective
- Computer literate in office, internet applications and literature searches
- Experience of clinical audit
- Effective communication skills, enthusiasm and approachability.
- Commitment to clinical governance.
- Flexible approach to work
- Demonstrate commitment and ability to teach and train clinical staff and medical and nursing students.
You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.
Package Description
As well as NHS terms and conditions including NHS pension, you’ll have access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Salary is up to £114,000 FTE with NHS Pension and AFC T&Cs
- Laptop and Mobile enabling fantastic flexible working patterns that can help you lead a perfect work/life balance
- 34 days holiday + Bank Holidays
- MyWellness – a health and lifestyle platform covering mental health awareness and support, healthy recipes & activity challenges and access to our free well-being service available 24/7/365 online and by telephone including; counsellors, post trauma incident support, legal, debt and practical life management helpline, guided self-help, telephonic career coaching and monthly well-being newsletters
- We are pleased to offer access to Wagestream -which lets you track your pay throughout the month and stream your earned wages into your bank account if you need them. No more high-interest loans or overdraft fees - simply get paid as you go.
- Access to a range of courses and e-learning to develop further skills, bespoke career pathways and opportunities continuing your professional development
- Innovative forward-thinking culture with the opportunity to put forward your ideas to contribute to the way we work. You will be encouraged to apply for national funding to drive your initiatives locally to benefit our patients and service users
- Rewarding and supportive teams, you will be recognised and have opportunities to recognise others by nominating for local and national awards annually and taking part in our new virtual “Ask our Executives” event, where you can submit questions to the board and hear updates regularly on company strategy and objectives
- Working in an environment focused on the highest clinical and quality standards with most of our rated services considered overall good or outstanding by the Care Quality Commission.
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
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