To provide, with consultant colleagues (as appropriate), a service in Community Paediatrics and support the development of sub-speciality interest to the hospitals and community so designated with responsibility for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of illness.
All clinical staff are accountable and responsible for their own clinical competence and should limit their actions to those for which they are deemed competent. Clinical staff are also required to comply with the requirements of their professional organisation regarding supervision.
As a senior employee of the Health Board, the post holder will work in close co-operation with, and support other clinical, medical professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality healthcare to the Health Board’s patients.
Key Responsibilities:
To ensure the provision and delivery of a first-class clinical service. To provide effective leadership to all staff engaged in the specialty. To sustain and develop teaching and research wherever appropriate. To undertake all work in accordance with the Health Board’s procedures and operating policies. To conduct clinical practice in accordance with contractual requirements and within the parameters of the Health Board’s service plans. To maintain the confidence of business plans and development strategies formulated for the specialty or the Health Board. Core clinical expertise in Community Paediatrics. Experience and knowledge of running a subspecialty service. Leadership and team building skills as well as working as part of a multidisciplinary team. Supporting and training multidisciplinary teams. Delivering care in the community alongside primary health care and social care teams. Providing persuasive strategic advice to HB’s and Social Services Departments. Addressing the Intermediate Care Agenda. Participating in CPD including Audit. You are expected to maintain your professional development for Revalidation. A Teaching and Training Role for medical undergraduates and postgraduates. Educational Supervisor role to Junior and Middle Grade Medical Staff. To undertake regular multidisciplinary clinical audit and provide evidence-based medicine.
For full details of the role requirements please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for this vacancy.
Discussions around working pattern will take place during initial job planning, where preferences, requirements and options can be discussed and explored in full.
Consultant Development and Mentoring Programme:
We run a successful Consultant Development and Mentoring Programme within the Health Board, this programme is specifically designed to meet the needs of newly appointed consultants, and offers a current and future focus by: Developing you as a senior leader, to enable you to effectively contribute to Hywel Dda and its future direction. Enhancing your capability as a senior leader and to support you to deliver organisational priorities. Building capacity for the future, by aligning current priorities with planning for delivering future service. Delivering development aimed at consultants, enabling you to translate the NHS Medical Leadership Competency Framework (MCLF) behaviours into practice.
The programme has been designed to support new Consultants to achieve the competencies required from the Medical Leadership Competency Framework (MCLF). This framework has been included within the NHS Leadership Framework (LF), and as such is consistent in its language and approach.
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