Revalidation Support Officer - Worcester, United Kingdom - Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

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Worcester, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Description

Key duties of the post are detailed below.

For additional role duties please see the full job description attached to this post:

Medical and Dental Revalidation and Appraisal Support the Medical and Dental revalidation process, assisting the Trust Responsible Officer (Chief Medical Officer) where necessary in their duties across the Trust.

Ensure the development, organisation and delivery of relevant levels of training are available for existing Trust Approved Appraisers including training on new systems and processes, adhoc training, appraiser networks events and ensuring the appropriate support systems are in place.

Ensure that the all training is appropriately advertised, monitored and recorded.

Maintain an accurate and up to date list of Trust Approved Appraisers ensuring that they attend Appraiser Networks on an annual basis.

Maintain an accurate list of prescribed connections to the Trust screening any new connections not initiated by the Trust to ascertain their validity.

Build and maintain a strong professional working relationship with the Trusts electronic appraisal software provider. Ensure that any system developments and planned down-time are communicated to all users.

To provide advice on the interpretation of guidance and policy to the Chief Medical Officer, Divisional Medical Directors, Clinical Leads and Directors and doctors of all grades regarding medical appraisal and revalidation.

Ensure that the Responsible Officer is updated in a timely manner of all changes within the medical and dental revalidation process inclusive of IT system changes, national updates and internal organisational changes and impacts.

Attend at the Responsible Officer and Lead Appraiser Regional and National Networks.

Ensure that the process for managing apparent non participation with medical appraisal is applied in a timely fashion, ensuring that reminder letters that are part of the process are issued in a timely fashion.

Deliver appropriate initial RMS training and subsequent update training as required across the Trust.

Deliver the cascade training of the RMS, ensuring that all medical personnel and appraisers have the appropriate training to undertake the appraisal process inclusive of the utilisation of the RMS system and are aware of the General Medical Councils regulation of medical and dental revalidation.

Monitor, report and record appraisals and monitoring compliance. Advertise, monitor and record relevant training.

Make available supportive documentation and updates to relevant parties as required and requested.

Support the medical appraisers across the Trust in planning the required appraisals and any additional timely support that is required to undertake the appraisal and utilise the RMS.

Update the Responsible Officer electronically and verbally in a timely manner of non-compliance in relation to the appraisers and appraisees participation within the medical and dental revalidation process.

Ensure appropriate monthly, annual and requested reports are produced and escalated to the Responsible Officer.

Manage and report any IT systems failures ensuring a log of events is maintained and escalated to theHR Officer for Medical Resourcing Maintain a database of medical and dental appraisers ensuring that all appraisers are supported to have the required knowledge, skills and competence to undertake their role as appraisers in line with the quality assurance of Medical Appraisers framework.

Ensure that all Medical and Dental staff are aware and informed of the medical and dental revalidation process. Propose, implement and review policies relating to Appraisal & Revalidation for the Responsible Officer. Reports Prepare reports on Appraisal and Revalidation activities on a weekly, monthly, quarterly, annual and ad hoc basis.
This will require the production, analysis and reporting of complex data.
Please see the appendix for the list of reports required on a regular basis.