Job description

Job responsibilities

The post-holder will: Work with colleagues to provide a consultant-led service with the highest standard of care. Work with the multi-professional team to develop care pathways and clinical guidelines. Develop and maintain good working practices with wards, out-patients, and the ED. Collaborate and promote close working links with colleagues, other departments, and primary care. Offer educational, clinical support and leadership to junior medical colleagues, nursing colleagues and other members of the multi-disciplinary. Ensure appropriate information is made available to staff to measure clinical performance and enable meaningful benchmarks to be established and evaluated within your area of responsibility. Ensure there is a robust process for reviewing the quality of services provided, explaining the causes of success and failure and ensure the highest standards are maintained. Provide a role model of professional leadership, which underpins the corporate values and behaviours agreed by the organisation, ensuring these are understood and demonstrated by the medical workforce within your area and take remedial action where poor behaviour is demonstrated. Ensure that junior doctors training conforms to Royal college requirements. Participate in the appraisal of medical staff within the department in line with the Trusts agreed policy. Ensure there is a robust process for reviewing the quality of services provided, explaining the causes of success and failure and ensure the highest standards are maintained. Provide a role model of professional leadership, which underpins the corporate values and behaviours agreed by the organisation, ensuring these are understood and demonstrated by the medical workforce within your area and take remedial action where poor behaviour is demonstrated. Ensure that junior doctors training conforms to Royal college requirements. Participate in the appraisal of medical staff within the department in line with the Trusts agreed policy.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Full and Specialist registration (and with a licence to practise) with the General Medical Council (GMC) or be eligible for registration within six months of interview.
• FRCPath

Experience

Essential

• Broad experience in clinical & laboratory haematology
• Fully competent in bone marrow aspirate and biopsy, lumbar puncture

Desirable

• Experience in Red cell Management or other area of special interest

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Ipswich

Ipswich

IP4 5PD

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.esneft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)