Locum Consultant in Acute and General Medicine - Sunderland, United Kingdom - South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust

South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust
South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust
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Sunderland, United Kingdom

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The post holder is expected to attend monthly Directorate meetings.

The Clinical Director is Dr Sid Ahmed The post holder will be expected to develop the service in keeping with national guidance and the Local Modernisation and Reform Group priorities/targets.

Consultant performance is monitored within the Directorate and strong emphasis is given to personal career development.

Clinical Responsibilities The post holder will:

In patient care of patients delivered across a number of inpatient wards at both Sunderland and South Tyneside in conjunction with the other Physicians.


Teaching The post holder will:
Participate in undergraduate and post-graduate teaching within designated areas of responsibility.

Support the Matron or Practice Development Nurse as appropriate, and other key non-medical clinical staff in providing educational support to fellow professionals.


Audit/Quality The post holder will:

Contribute fully to national, local and regional audits (including organisational), where relevant, to ensure that the delivery of clinical care is aligned to best practice.

Work constructively within the Clinical Governance framework of the Trust.


Clinical Audit Clinicians are at the heart of quality improvement and professionally led quality improvement is the centre of change in the NHS.

Clinical audit in particular needs a group of committed, informed, trained and experienced people to drive audit practice. Clinical audit is an integral part of professional practice and essential criteria of consultant revalidation.

Consultants undertaking clinical activities must not only participate in high quality clinical audit but also encourage and support their clinical teams to carryout both local, regional and national audit activity.


The principle criteria are as follows: Consultants participate in local and non local audit, or related quality improvement initiatives Consultants should be involved in the selection of the audit topic, designing the audit, data collection, submission of data of non local audit activity, data analysis and presentation. Consultants should reflect on the results of clinical audit a reflective diary/notes to be held in their appraisal portfolio about the implications for them because of the clinical audit. Consultants must act in response to the results of audit results the development of an action plan based on the results of the clinical audit. Dissemination of the results of clinical audit informing colleagues, including non medical managers and patients of the findings of any such clinical audits.

Achieving and sustaining improvement clinical audit topics are re-audited to complete the audit cycle. Where recommended action has not been achieved in full the topic will be re-audited at agreed intervals.

Audits must be registered with the Clinical Governance Department, support and advice for the audit process can be provided by the Clinical Governance Facilitators.


Management The post holder will:

In conjunction with the Clinical Director, the Directorate Manager and other Consultants, co-ordinate and supervise the provision of a high quality service.


Participate in the Service Planning cycle of the Directorate in the review of the service to meet the needs of the local population.

Liaise with the Clinical Director and Directorate Manager taking cognisance of the impact of local purchasing priorities in the delivery of the Service.

Participate in the handling of complaints and take remedial action as appropriate. This will include attending meetings with complainants when necessary.
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