Consultant in Diabetes, Endocrine & GIM • Orpington King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
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{"interviewQueryText":"What are some good interview questions in British English for the job description below?\n\n-------------------------------------------\n\nConsultant in Diabetes, Endocrine & GIM with King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Orpington\n\n 1. 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. 2. Shared responsibility with other colleagues for providing 24 hours, 7 days a week cover for the Unit on a rota basis. Responsible also for covering colleagues periods of annual leave and short-term sickness as detailed in your contract. 3. Provide clinical supervision of junior medical/dental practitioners as a shared responsibility with other consultant colleagues. 4. Responsible for carrying out teaching, examination and accreditation duties as required and contributing to CPD and clinical governance initiatives. 5. Responsible for outpatient clinic commitments in peripheral hospitals as agreed with the Care Groups management team where part of the service structure. 6. Contribute to the Care Groups research interests in accordance with the Trusts R&D framework. 7. Contribute to the audit programmes, Morbidity and Mortality, Clinical Governance programmes and Learning from Deaths. 8. Take an active role in the formulation, implementation and monitoring of the Care Groups Business Plan. This may include assisting with discussions regarding service plans and developments with internal and external agencies. 9. Conduct all activities within the contracted level of service and operating plan for service(s). 10. 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. 11. 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. 12. Undertake Care Group management duties as agreed with the Care Group/Departmental Manager/Clinical Director. 13. Be aware of, and comply with, all Trust infection prevention and control policies, to include hand hygiene, personal hygiene, environmental and food hygiene. 14. Prepare for and undertake the protective interventions that you are responsible for in a manner that is consistent with evidence-based practice and maintaining patient safety. 15. Kings is committed to providing Consultant led 7-day services and in the event of future developments the post holder would be expected to contribute equally with other Consultant colleagues. 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 Kings 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 postholder 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 postholder. This is a replacement consultant post. The remit of the postholder will be to work within the multi-disciplinary team providing and further developing care for General Medicine inpatient services and specialised Diabetes and Endocrinology services. In addition, the individual will be required to play an active role in the general workload of the department while having a significant commitment to teaching and trainin The post will be based at Princess Royal University Hospital and the proposed 10 PA Job Plan is attached. This will be reviewed within 3 months of the postholder commencing in post. The on-call commitment is overall a 1:18 rota (1:28 weekends; 1:16 weekdays), which is classed as Category B (1% supplement). There is a commitment to undertake routine job planned work on Saturdays or Sundays as part of the total job planned PAs g of junior staff. The purpose of this role is to support and further develop the Diabetes & Endocrine department at the PRUH and to provide senior decision making to ensure optimal and early review of patients. The appointee will work in collaboration with the other Diabetes & Endocrine consultant, junior doctors and Diabetes Specialist Nurses, Dietitians, Podiatrists and Pharmacist in the department and Trust. Delivering outpatient and inpatient Diabetes & Endocrine services to the local population of Bromley and surrounding areas. Specific duties will include rotational cover for 20 bed General Medicine ward, Endocrine outpatient clinics, Diabetic Foot inpatients and outpatients, pregnancy and transition clinics and Inpatient diabetes. The consultant team work with Bromley Healthcare to deliver the Community Diabetes outpatients service. "}