Locum Consultant in Immunology

Job description

Job responsibilities

OBJECTIVES OF THE POST

The successful candidate would join the other 2 substantive consultants & 2 Locum Consultants in the team. They are expected to work closely with the current multidisciplinary team to sustain current capacity of Allergy & Immunology services with a view to expand in the near future, ensure the smooth flow from diagnosis to treatment & follow up, including developing innovative ways of working to sustain increasing patient load, contribute to the Immunology & Allergy on call rota. Sustain the current capacity of the service for clinical allergy and immunology work, with a view to expansion following further development of nursing clinics and review of patient throughout. Ensure the smooth flow from diagnosis to treatment & follow up. Support development of Allergy & Immunology Service. Work closely multidisciplinary team & developing innovative ways of working to sustain increasing patient load. Contribute to the Allergy & Immunology on call rota (Category B). Ensure optimal delivery of diagnostic laboratory support in line with standards from clinical pathology accreditation and in line with the planned developments of the Yorkshire diagnostic laboratory network. To allow the continuing development of subspecialty interests within the Leeds immunology & allergy service.

REQUIREMENTS OF THE POST

General

The Trust expects consultants to deliver clinical service as agreed with commissioners and other stakeholders. This will include: meeting the objectives of the post (see above), continuously improving the quality and efficiency of personal and team practice,working with other staff and teams to ensure that the various criteria for service delivery are met, such as achieving the best clinical outcomes within the resources available, waiting times and infection control standards.

Consultants in LTHT are line managed by their specialty Lead Clinician working in conjunction with a Business/Service Manager. This specialty team is then managed alongside a number of other specialties in a Clinical Service (or Support) Unit (CSU) led by a Clinical Director as the responsible person and supported by a full time General Manager and a full time Head of Nursing.

The Clinical Director and their team report operationally to the Chief Operating Officers (COO) team consisting of the Chief Operating Officer, the Medical Director for Operations and the Nurse Director for Operations. In addition, the COO team contains four assistant directors of operations (ADOps) and a Performance Team. The ADOps are each aligned to specific CSUs to facilitate two-way interaction.

Professionally, consultants report to Dr Magnus Harrison, Chief Medical Officer.

Service specific

The role of consultant Immunologist will be expected to demonstrate a high level of clinical experience and competence in the diagnosis and management of:

General Allergy

Drug Allergy

Immunodeficiency

There will be an opportunity to contribute to the autoinflammatory service with supportive training

The post holder will be responsible for performing outpatient clinics and providing consultative clinical advice to colleagues at Leeds Teaching Hospitals.

Quality

The Trust has a programme of activities that are designed to help consultants improve the quality of the service they offer. This includes a range of activities shown below as examples not all activities can be undertaken every year! Consultants are expected to routinely engage in relevant activities in their specialty that arefocussedon quality improvement.This participation should be reflected at annual appraisal and job planning and will be discussed in specialties as part of clinical governance programmes and meetings.

Clinical Audit and standard setting

Clinical audit projects

Development and application of agreed clinical guidelines

Ensuring compliance against relevant national specifications, e.g. NICE guidelines

External Peer review and relevant national audits

Implement improvements identified in GIRFT reviews

Clinical outcome review

Mortality and morbidity reviews

Structured Judgement Reviews

Monitoring of outcomes reflected in routinely collected data

Participation in clinical coding review and improvement

Improving patient safety

Participation in Trust-wide programmes, including mandatory learning

Respond to national patient safety alerts

Implementation of local improvements, including actions from serious incident investigation reports, following clinical review

Promptly record patient safety incidents on Datix and immediately escalate potential serious incidents to the CSU management team

Ensure Duty of Candour requirements are met

Improving service effectiveness and efficiency

Service or system improvement projects, including small scale change, lean or other recognised improvement methods

Conducting or considering reviews of the evidence to plan better service delivery

Where agreed, working with commissioners to match service delivery with requirements of relevant populations

Improving the patient experience

Implementing service improvements based on individual or service feedback from patients or carers

Raising the profile and impact of patient participation in decisions about their own care

Involvement in understanding and improving the ethical basis of care provided, utilising where necessary the trusts clinical ethics committee

Respond to complaints in a timely and open manner and ensure lessons are learned for future patient care

Research

The Trusts Research Strategy encourages all clinicians to participate in high quality, nationally recognised clinical research trials and other well-designed studies, with a particular emphasis on work supported by the National Institute for Health Research. The Trust has several major programmes in experimental medicine and applied health research, developed in partnership with the University of Leeds, which reflect strengths described in the Strategy and clinicians are encouraged to participate in these programmes.

The Trust also supports bespoke academic development and participation programmes linked to the Research Strategy, including academic mentoring, and embedding of clinicians within the major research programmes.

Sessional time required for any participation in research activity will be agreed on commencement and kept under review, but not allconsultants will require such sessional time.

Teaching

The Trust is a Teaching Hospital and therefore considers the active participation of consultant and other medical staff in teaching and training to be part of our core activities. Not all consultants will have regular and substantial teaching commitments, but all will be involved in related activities from time to time, if only through informal opportunities, for example as part of service quality improvement (see above). It is therefore expected that all consultants will be familiar with the principles of effective teaching and will enable the service and colleagues to fulfil their obligations to learn and teach about effective care.

The remainder of this section concentrates on teaching and training for medical colleagues, but the Trust actively supports and encourages consultant medical staff to participate in and deliver teaching and training to any colleagues, within and outside of the Trust, where this is agreed as an appropriate time commitment.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Must be able to demonstrate a high level of clinical experience and competence in managing patients with primary & secondary immunodeficiencies, drug allergy & chronic spontaneous urticaria
• Must be able to demonstrate higher training in Immunology
• Evidence of continuous career progression consistent with personal circumstances
• Evidence of the ability to carry out medical research
• Experience of participation in regular clinical audit

Desirable

• Previous experience of supervising research by junior staff

Qualifications

Essential

• MB BS or equivalent qualification. MRCP or equivalent qualification Certificate of completion of Specialist training in Immunology FRCPath or equivalent
• The appointee must hold the Membership of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom, or equivalent, and have completed higher specialist training in Respiratory Medicine
• Hold full GMC Registration with a license to practice
• All applicants to have demonstrable skills in written and spoken
• English adequate to enable effective communication about medical topics
• Eligibility to work in the UK
• Is up to date and fit to practise safely

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

Leeds Teaching Hospitals

Address

St. James's University Hospital

Beckett Street

Leeds

LS9 7TF

Employer's website

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