Job summary
The Trust is seeking to appoint a General Practitioner to work in the new Rapid Diagnostic Centre at Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH), Woolwich, which is a part of the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust as part of the department of Ambulatory Care.
Main duties of the job
We are developing a new Rapid Diagnostic Clinic at QEH. This will be a new site in South East London (SEL) as part of the SEL Cancer Alliance. This post will be based at QEH. The post holder will be pivotal in leading the RDC, this will include a single point of access to a diagnostic pathway for all patients with symptoms that could indicate cancer; personalised, accurate and rapid diagnosis of patients' symptoms by integrating existing diagnostic provision and utilising networked clinical expertise and information locally.
Applicants must be fully registered with the GMC and a hold a licence to practise and MRCGP.
About us
Our hospitals provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. Over the last year, our emergency performance has been among the strongest in London, despite our emergency departments being among the busiest in the capital.
Queen Elizabeth Hospital is located in Woolwich, Greenwich and provides a broad portfolio of primarily acute services for those living in Greenwich and North Bexley. The site has over 520 acute beds and in excess of 150,000 Emergency Department attendances per annum. The site currently has the following services including: Accident and Emergency, Coronary Care including angiography and PCI, Intensive Care & High Dependency Unit, Maternity and Special Care Baby Unit, Paediatrics, Surgery, Trauma & Orthopaedics, Medicine, Oncology, Haematology, Neurology, Dermatology, Rheumatology and out-patient services. We have 7 main theatres, 2 day theatres and state-of-the art imaging including MRI and interventional radiology services, and laboratory facilities so able to provide a full range of clinical and support service.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will participate in the following:
Delivery of 3 clinical sessions (1 and a half days) this would include a full day at QEH Hospital in the Outpatient clinic with a half day for telephone follow-up consultations and clinical administration (can be done remotely). This will involve a combination of triage discussion of primary care referrals with Advanced Nurse Practitioners as well as seeing new patients referred to the service and undertaking telephone follow up.
- 1 non-clinical session (half day) for training, GP networking and service delivery or research/education
- Multidisciplinary team meeting with other RDC members on a weekly basis in order to discuss ongoing referrals & difficult cases
- Provision of advice to primary care referrers directly during clinical session if required
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will participate in the following:
Delivery of 3 clinical sessions (1 and a half days) this would include a full day at QEH Hospital in the Outpatient clinic with a half day for telephone follow-up consultations and clinical administration (can be done remotely). This will involve a combination of triage discussion of primary care referrals with Advanced Nurse Practitioners as well as seeing new patients referred to the service and undertaking telephone follow up.
- 1 non-clinical session (half day) for training, GP networking and service delivery or research/education
- Multidisciplinary team meeting with other RDC members on a weekly basis in order to discuss ongoing referrals & difficult cases
- Provision of advice to primary care referrers directly during clinical session if required
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Experience
Essential
- Full registration with the GMC and hold a license to practice
- MRCGP (UK) or equivalent
- Broad based training and wide experience of acute and general medicine
- Ability to take full and independent responsibility for the management of acute medical emergencies
- Experience of working in a multicultural environment
- Management of acutely unwell patients
- Management of patients with long term conditions
- Management of patients with multimorbidity
- Skills in cross-speciality collaboration and/or liaison working
- Evidence of participation in clinical audit
- Understanding of the principles of Clinical Governance and Clinical Risk
- Understanding of Quality Improvement Programmes
- Wide experience of, and strong commitment to, undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
- Ability to teach clinical skills to medical and nursing staff and other disciplines
- Evidence of organisational ability and experience of NHS management tasks
- An understanding of general principles, scientific method and interpretation of literature
Desirable
- Distinctions, scholarships, prizes
- Other degrees, e.g. BSc, MSc, MD, PhD
- On Specialist register for medical sub-specialty
- Experience in medical assessment of medical, surgical and/or oncological patients
- Evidence-based knowledge of medical assessment of cancer patients
- Evidence of involvement in audits that have been used to significantly improve patient care
- Experience in clinical guideline development
- Experience in delivery of quality improvement programmes
- Evidence of educational leadership roles
- Curriculum design
- Will have attended a National Health Service Management Course appropriate to consultant duties
- Evidence of personal research projects and their presentation
- Publications in peer-reviewed journals
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Experience
Essential
- Full registration with the GMC and hold a license to practice
- MRCGP (UK) or equivalent
- Broad based training and wide experience of acute and general medicine
- Ability to take full and independent responsibility for the management of acute medical emergencies
- Experience of working in a multicultural environment
- Management of acutely unwell patients
- Management of patients with long term conditions
- Management of patients with multimorbidity
- Skills in cross-speciality collaboration and/or liaison working
- Evidence of participation in clinical audit
- Understanding of the principles of Clinical Governance and Clinical Risk
- Understanding of Quality Improvement Programmes
- Wide experience of, and strong commitment to, undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
- Ability to teach clinical skills to medical and nursing staff and other disciplines
- Evidence of organisational ability and experience of NHS management tasks
- An understanding of general principles, scientific method and interpretation of literature
Desirable
- Distinctions, scholarships, prizes
- Other degrees, e.g. BSc, MSc, MD, PhD
- On Specialist register for medical sub-specialty
- Experience in medical assessment of medical, surgical and/or oncological patients
- Evidence-based knowledge of medical assessment of cancer patients
- Evidence of involvement in audits that have been used to significantly improve patient care
- Experience in clinical guideline development
- Experience in delivery of quality improvement programmes
- Evidence of educational leadership roles
- Curriculum design
- Will have attended a National Health Service Management Course appropriate to consultant duties
- Evidence of personal research projects and their presentation
- Publications in peer-reviewed journals
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
