Job Description:

Job information Consultant Opthalmologist with special Interest from the Company King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, this latest Consultant Opthalmologist with special Interest job vacancy is located in the city London BR located in the country United Kingdom . This latest job opening is open to job seekers who have the latest education / graduate GCSE . Job Vacancies in this Consultant field have been opened and published up to the specified time.

Job Responsibility:

This is a replacement Consultant post. The remit of the post holder will be to work within the multi-disciplinary team providing and continuing to develop care for patients with Glaucoma. In addition, the individual will be required to play an active role in the general workload of the Care Group while having a significant commitment to teaching and training of junior staff (medical and non-medical). This clinical post is based at King's College Hospital's Queen Mary's Hospital site, though there is potential to support any of King's sites as appropriate. The proposed Job Plan (up to 10 PAs) is attached. This is subject to review within 3 months of the post holder commencing in post. The main remit of this post is to provide specialist Consultant leadership, expertise and support to King's glaucoma services provided at the southern sites. The post holder will develop and provide outpatient and surgical services for glaucoma patients from the complex to the routine. There will be a major commitment to the new community based glaucoma monitoring service with involvement in development, training, supervision and virtual case review. The post holder will contribute to the strategic development of the glaucoma service across all King's sites in collaboration with the other King's glaucoma specialists with regular meetings of a cross-site subspecialty glaucoma group to facilitate this. In addition, the post-holder may work with local clinical commissioning groups to devise appropriate patient care pathways and services in primary care. In addition the post may involve performing high volume cataract surgery. King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. The Trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD; Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King's to another level. At King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust we are proud of our diverse workforce and the strength that gives us to provide compassionate care to all of our patients. We are fortunate to employ a workforce that represents the population we care for and we celebrate the value of differences in age, disability, gender reassignment, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sex, sexual orientation and religion or belief. We have demonstrated out commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion by making it one of our four headline ambitions in our BOLD vision (brilliant people, outstanding care, leaders in research, innovation and education and diversity, equality and inclusion at the heart of everything we do) and there is significant work undertaken at the Trust to ensure that this is a reality for our staff. 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 Group's management team where part of the service structure. 6. Contribute to the Care Group's research interests in accordance with the Trust's 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 Group's 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. King's 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 King's 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 post holder 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, i ncluding 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 post holder.

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Closed Date : 2024-12-11