Medical Examiner

Job overview

PURPOSE OF JOB

The post will be mainly based at Denmark Hill with the possibility of sessions at Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup depending on how the service develops. The proposed Job Plan (6 PAs) is attached, and there is no On-Call commitment This is subject to review within 3 months of the post holder commencing in post.

All employees are expected to undertake work on any of the Trust’s sites as required by the service. As a senior employee of the Trust, you will work in close co-operation with, and support other clinical, medical professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality healthcare to the Trust’s patients. Integral to these responsibilities are the following:

· The provision of a first-class clinical service

· Effective leadership to all staff engaged in the specialty

· Sustaining and developing teaching and research in conjunction with King’s College London / KHP

· Undertaking all work in accordance with the Trust’s procedures and operating policies

· Conducting clinical practice in accordance with contractual requirements and within the parameters of the Trust’s service plans

· Maintaining the confidence of business plans and development strategies formulated for the specialty, the Care Group or the Trust

Main duties of the job

This is a replacement Specialist post. The remit of the postholder will be to work within the multi–disciplinary team providing and further developing care for [the dental care group] from king’s College Dental Hospital, and to provide and develop paediatric dental services to the Trust’s paediatric patients.

The post will be mainly based at Denmark Hill with the possibility of sessions at Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup depending on how the service develops.

All employees are expected to undertake work on any of the Trust’s sites as required by the service. As a senior employee of the Trust, you will work in close co-operation with, and support other clinical, medical professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality healthcare to the Trust’s patients. Integral to these responsibilities are the following:

· The provision of a first-class clinical service

· Effective leadership to all staff engaged in the specialty

· Sustaining and developing teaching and research in conjunction with King’s College London / KHP

· Undertaking all work in accordance with the Trust’s procedures and operating policies

· Conducting clinical practice in accordance with contractual requirements and within the parameters of the Trust’s service plans

· Maintaining the confidence of business plans and development strategies formulated for the specialty, the Care Group or the Trust

Working for our organisation

At King’s, we are proud to serve a diverse range of communities, and our staff reflect the diversity of the communities we serve, with many people also travelling from all the world to start and develop their careers with us.

Why King’s?

Our organisational Values are Kind, Respectful Team and these drive the work we do, and how colleagues interact with each other, and the patients we treat.

People from all over the world choose to develop and build their careers with us, and we have a history of innovation, with a number of new and novel treatments pioneered at our hospitals.

These include:

- Carrying out the UK’s first bone marrow transplant

- Performing the world’s first endomyocardial biopsy

- Completing the UK’s first clinically successful islet transplantation for a patient with Type 1 diabetes

- Undertaking Europe’s first combined liver and small bowel transplant from a live donor

- Becoming the first hospital in the UK to perform fetoscopic surgery on babies with spina bifida in utero.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. To assess and treatment plan patients referred by general dental practitioners, the community dental services and internal tertiary referrals.

2. To provide specialist treatment for those children requiring specialist dental care.

3. To provide dental treatment when appropriate under sedation

4. Together with other colleagues, to provide a high quality care service to patients. This includes all aspects of treatment and relevant management duties for the proper functioning of the Care Group.

5. Shared responsibility with other colleagues for providing. Responsible also for covering colleagues’ periods of annual leave and short-term sickness as detailed in your contract.

6. Provide clinical supervision of junior medical/dental practitioners.

7. Responsible for carrying out teaching, examination and accreditation duties as required and contributing to CPD and clinical governance initiatives.

8. Contribute to the Care Group’s research interests in accordance with the Trust’s R&D framework.

9. Contribute to the audit programmes, Morbidity and Mortality, Clinical Governance programmes and Learning from Deaths.

10. Conduct all activities within the contracted level of service and operating plan for service(s).

11. Exercise professional leadership for all staff working in the specialty. This will include fostering and developing projects focused towards these ends and ensuring that the momentum of post-qualification professional education and other appropriate training is maintained.

12. Work in conjunction with clinical and other professional colleagues to ensure that the productivity of staff within the specialty is maintained and their job satisfaction is enhanced. This may include involvement in the appraisal process for peers and/or junior colleagues.

13. Undertake Care Group management duties as agreed with the Care Group/Departmental Manager/Clinical Director.

14.Be aware of, and comply with, all Trust infection prevention and control policies, to include hand hygiene, personal hygiene, environmental and food hygiene.

GENERAL INFORMATION

1. You have a general duty of care for the health, safety and well-being of yourself, work colleagues, visitors and patients within the hospital in addition to any specific risk management or clinical governance responsibilities associated with this post.

2. You are required to observe the rules, policies, procedures and standards of King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust together with all relevant statutory and professional obligations, including complying with statutory and Trust core training.

3. You are required to observe and maintain strict confidentiality of personal information relating to patients and staff.

4. You are required to be responsible, with management support, for your own personal development and to actively contribute to the development of colleagues.

5. The post holder has an important responsibility for, and contribution to make to, infection control and must be familiar with the infection control and hygiene requirements of this role. These requirements are set out in the National Code of Practice on Infection Control and in local policies and procedures, which will be made clear during your induction and subsequent refresher training. These standards must be strictly complied with at all times.

6. All employees must hold an 'nhs.net' email account, which will be the Trust's formal route for email communication. You are therefore required to check this regularly and to deal with such communication promptly.

7. The Trust is committed to the Health and Wellbeing of all its staff and offer a range of guidance and services to support them, including

· Local occupational health support

· Employee Assistance Programme which provides a wide range of support for work and personal issues, including relationship problems (personal and at work); anxiety/depression; finance/debt; work overload; legal matters; bullying; consumer issues; bereavement; pressure/stress; child care; and care of the elderly/disabled.

· Wellbeing hubs

· Proactive local organisational systems to support staff following a serious incident

· Availability of local initiatives and resources to promote workforce wellbeing

· Coaching and mentoring, peer review groups and participation

8. This job description is intended as a guide to the general scope of duties and is not intended to be definitive or restrictive. It is expected that some of the duties will change over time and this description will be subject to review in consultation with the post holder.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. MEDICAL STUDENT TEACHING

The appointed practitioner will normally participate in teaching medical students, post-graduate doctors/dentists and other groups at King's College Hospital NHSFT and King’s College London (KCL) School of Medicine.

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, as a major teaching Trust, works in partnership with King’s College London to provide the highest possible quality of medical education.

All consultants are expected to be committed to teaching and to play their part in the delivery of the undergraduate curriculum. These activities would include the planning and review of teaching, and the assessment of students, which could, where properly structured, be undertaken simultaneously with service delivery commitments, including ward rounds and outpatient clinics.

Of necessity, the requirements of the undergraduate medical curriculum change over time and it is not always possible to identify specific teaching commitments in job plans. Some specific roles will be job planned.

The need for flexibility is acknowledged by the Trust and within a Care Group. It is possible that the overall teaching commitment can be unevenly allocated amongst staff to achieve optimal teaching and service quality.

2. POST-GRADUATE TEACHING

The Trust has over 700 training posts and over 400 Trust doctors/dentists across all specialties. The post holder will be expected to participate in teaching and training postgraduate doctors/dentists, which in addition to direct clinical supervision is likely to include acting as an ‘educational supervisor’ to one or more individuals, providing them with regular appraisal and support. Consultants that undertake educational supervision will be provided with appropriate training in accordance with national requirements and accredited by the Director of Medical Education. Allocation of time for post-graduate education is normally job planned as a team.

3. RESEARCH AND INNOVATION

Involvement in high quality research is strongly encouraged at King’s NHSFT, as this supports both the delivery of high quality clinical care, and our role as a partner in a major Academic Health Science Centres.

Support for Research

An important component of the Trust’s Research and Development (R&D) strategy is to strengthen the support available to researchers, to make it as easy as possible to participate in, and to lead in clinical research – both commercial and academic.

Each Care Group is aligned with a Research Delivery Unit (RDU) that has a designated R&D Lead, Matron or Manager and a team of R&D research delivery staff. The R&D Office provides support for governance, contracts, costings and research Quality Assurance. The. Care Groups and RDUs are encouraged to maintain a mixed model balanced portfolio of research activity, including Clinical Research Network (CRN) studies, research grants, commercial studies, charity funded studies and health services research.

Commercial trials are costed and set up supported by the KHP Clinical Trials Office (KHP CTO) and this office also provides support for applications to the regulatory bodies for all non-commercial CTiMP studies, and Good Clinical Practice (GCP) training. Multi-disciplinary involvement in the research process is strongly encouraged.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registerable medical qualification
• Name on Specialist Register for Paediatric Dentistry on date of taking up appointment. Either through the applicant’s entry at a specialist level with the MPaed Dent tri-collegiate examination and CCST or mediated entry
• Full registration and a Licence to Practice with the General Medical Council / General Dental Council

Training and Experience

Essential criteria

• Minimum of 2 years must be in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty or as a fixed-term specialty trainee in a relevant specialty
• Equivalent years’ experience in a relevant specialty from other medical grades including from overseas will also be accepted.
• Meet the criteria set out in the Specialist grade generic capabilities framework.
• Wide experience in all aspects of Paediatric Dentistry culminating in award of CCST or equivalent
• Experience of provision of dental treatment under general anaesthesia and all appropriate conscious sedation techniques.
• Experience in the dental management of medically compromised patients.
• Specialist training in Paediatric Dentistry

Administration

Essential criteria

• Experience in day to day organisation of Paediatric services in a busy Teaching Hospital

Desirable criteria

• Familiar with current structure of Health Service and conversant with recent initiatives and changes

Management and Leadership

Essential criteria

• Able to demonstrate leadership capability within multi-disciplinary teams.

Desirable criteria

• Management course and/or qualification

IMPORTANT

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• If you delete the job from any of your accounts, you may be prevented from accessing further communications
• To enquire about your application or inform us of any changes in your circumstances, please contact the named person on this advert
• Please provide email addresses for referees where possible
• Please review the documentation on our recruitment microsite, particularly the Trust’s criminal records checking policy
• All staff have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and for ensuring they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.
• Please note that the closing date is given as a guide. On occasion, we might close a vacancy early due to a high number of applications being received. You are advised to submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.

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