Consultant Physician - Maidstone, Kent, United Kingdom - Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

Description

This is a replacement post to join our current consultant workforce and help us in providing support to our respiratory patients at Maidstone Hospital.

Although this is a full time post, applicants wishing to work part time will be considered.

The Respiratory Medicine department provides services on both acute sites of the Trust (Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital).

The expected full-time commitment for these posts will average to 10 PAs per week, made up of 8 DPAs and 2 SPAs.

The successful applicants will share medical responsibility for managing up to a 32 bedded Respiratory inpatient ward, with their other Respiratory colleagues, with appropriate junior medical doctor support.

The ward has at least 1 registrar grade, 3 F2/GPST/IMT trainees, 2 FY1 trainee.

The Department is looking for a consultant to take over as COPD Lead and Smoking cessation Lead for the Trust and lead on the COPD MDM at Maidstone Hospital.

The Trust was formed in April 2000 by the merger of the Mid Kent Healthcare Trust and the Kent & Sussex Weald NHS Trust.

It provides general hospital services to a population of approximately 460,000 in West Kent and North East Sussex, and some specialist services to a considerably larger population.

Its major hospitals are the Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury and Maidstone Hospital. The Trust's Headquarters are at Maidstone Hospital.

The Trust's Chairman is Mr David Highton, the Chief Executive is Mr Miles Scott and the Medical Director is Dr Peter Maskell.

Clinical services are organised into nine Directorates. The Clinical Director for Specialist Medicine, which encompasses Respiratory Medicine, is Dr Simon Webster.

This will include any patients referred to you and cared for by you personally or by members of your team and, in addition, any patients of consultant colleagues when you are covering on-call or for annual leave.

# To participate in clinical and other service activities and developments with the aim of ensuring a high standard of patient care across the Trust.
# To work in close co-operation with other medical, professional and managerial colleagues, both within and outside the specialty, to provide high quality health care to the Trusts patients, and to make a contribution to future thinking about the Trusts strategic direction.
# To attend clinical governance half-days as detailed in the Trusts Guide to Job Planning unless on agreed leave or while attending emergencies.
# To participate actively in departmental audits, sharing co-ordination of audit activities within the department and implementation of change.
# To take an active responsibility for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, training and supervision.
# To assume responsibility, both personally and corporately with consultant colleagues, for the management of junior medical staff. You are expected to be involved in their professional development, both clinical and personal as per guidance from the Deanery.
# To ensure that all doctors in training for whom you have supervisory responsibilities undertake delegated clinical tasks that are within their level of competence and knowledge.
# To ensure at all times that you comply with the General Medical Councils published guide Good Medical Practice including the Duties of a Doctor.

Broad experience of respiratory medicine.
Distinctions, scholarships, prizes
Other degrees, eg BSc, MSc, MD, PhD
On GMC Specialist Register for G(I)M and respiratory medicine (or within 6 months of CCT date)
Successful completion of Specialty Certificate Examination in Respiratory Medicine.
Evidence of participation in audit projects

An understanding of general principles, scientific method and interpretation of literature

Evidence of personal research projects and their presentation
Maidstone Hospital