NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

The post holder will provide leadership to facilitate the smooth operation, delivery and high quality of all medical services within their designated area of responsibility. The post holder will take line management responsibility for operational and professional issues for doctors within the service area. The post holder will work collaboratively with Clinical Directors, Deputy Clinical Directors and the Service Managers to ensure service delivery is in line with Trust Strategy and performance objectives. The post holder will be a key member of the Service Stream Management Group and will contribute towards business planning, strategy attainment, service redesign and performance achievement.Main duties of the job Leadership To provide strong medical leadership - this complements and supports the work of Service Manager, Divisional Director and the Clinical Director. To strive to achieve the delivery of targets to improve performance with the service area. Strategy To support the Clinical Director in the strategic work of the service area. Patient Care and Treatment To support the Clinical Director, Divisional Director and Service Line Leaders, ensuring that proper procedures are in place for assessment, care and treatment of patients. To support Clinical Director, Divisional Director and Service Line Leaders in ensuring the achievement of all quality standards and protocols and monitoring their application. Such protocols include referral pathways, confidentiality, safeguarding, maintenance of supervision and dealing with complaints etc. To ensure medical staffing levels and clinical cover are adequate at all times., To carry out job planning of consultants and SAS doctors, aligning the job plan and the job plan objectives with the objectives of the Division and the organisation as a whole, paying particular attention to the business plan, issues of safety, effectiveness, service user-experience, efficiency and key performance indicators. Proposed Job Plans must then be agreed signed off by the Clinical Director. To appraise medical staff and agree personal development plans as appropriate and in accordance with the Trust's policies and procedures. To actively support continuous professional development of the staff. To manage any disciplinary or performance situations which might arise including exercising discretion in matters such as sickness and compassionate leave. To be responsible for the line management of medical staff within designated area of responsibility. This will include junior staff that might be managed with individual consultants with the college tutor with the Medical Lead having an overall responsibility in either case. To deal with any disciplinary and performance situations which might arise, including exercising discretion in matters such as sickness and compassionate leave with the support of the Clinical Directors and Associate Medical Directors - professional issues. To be responsible for operational line management of medical staff (not just line management).

• Primary Medical Degree
• Full registration with the GMC and license to practice
Desirable criteria
• Project Management experience
• Training as an investigator, Sufficient experience as a consultant psychiatrist (minimum 1 year).
• Managing time and ensuring deadlines are met
Desirable criteria
• Experience of budgetary control/management
• Proven track level of achieving healthcare targets
• Experience of participating in or leading programmes of change within the public sector, Excellent communication skills, written and oral
• Able to work collaboratively with partner organisations
• Ability to influence and motivate staff to deliver challenging targets.
• Negotiating skills and ability to manage conflict
Desirable criteria
• Ability to build successful teams
• Ability to present complex data
• Ability to promote and market services
• Proven negotiating skills, Ability to see strategic picture and understand the importance of service alignment to Trust vision and values.
• Problem solving skills
• Business focused
• Objectivity
Desirable criteria
• Critically analyse complex financial and clinical data sets.
• Innovative thinker with the ability to cut through barriers to change, Good organisational skill, Record of pro-active performance management., IT skills to manage and report on complex performance information systems., Excellent personal integrity, personal effectiveness and self-awareness
• Maintains personal training and development, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
  HPFT supports people with mental ill health, learning disabilities and autism across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Norfolk and Essex. We employ around 4,500 people who deliver these services within the community and in inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services and medium and low secure learning disabilities services. We have operated as a NHS Foundation Trust since our authorisation in August 2007.